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Now we’re going to start looking into some of those SSH commands. Today we’ll be going over the commands pkgacct and restorepkg.
Backing up and restoring cPanel account’s is, in my opinion, faster by using the command line as you don’t have to wait for a sometimes sluggish web interface to load.
Let’s get started then, shall we? Continue reading ‘Backup/Restore a cPanel Account’
Did you know that if you have cPanel/WHM on your server, you also have a bunch of serverside commands that you can use? These are good for advanced users, or the people who prefer to manage their servers in a hurry via the command line rather than waiting for a web interface to load.
Nearly everything that you can do in the WHM backend can be performed via command line. These scripts are located in your server’s /scripts/ directory. Only use scripts that have been verified by cPanel, or that you know yourself are safe as an unsafe script may damage your server.
Long list of scripts after the break… Continue reading ‘WHM Scripts’
A fantastico installation is pretty straight forward. First thing you need to do is obtain a Fantastico license from Netenburg.
One of the most common issues when installing fantastico is a buggy wget install on the server, so a working wget version will need to be installed. Another common issue is cPanels internal php may break, but we will discuss the fix to that later on. Continue reading ‘Install fantastico on cPanel’
2009-07-20 21:58:07 Failed to get write lock for /var/spool/exim/db/ratelimit.lockfile: timed out
2008-07-20 21:58:07 H=[xx.xx.xx.xx] temporarily rejected connection in “connect” ACL: ratelimit database not available
To fix such an error , the exim cache database on the server side needs to be clear off to stop this message. Continue reading ‘Exim Error: Ratelimit database not available’
I came across an issue for the first time where the cPanel icon was missing in the list accounts section. After digging around WHM, I found where the function was disabled.
After hitting save, you can go back to the list account section and the cPanel icon will be back.
Upgrading MySQL versions is a quick and easy process, not much work involved. Always be sure to make a backup before you start though, just in case the upgrade fails or some other unforeseen issue arises.
cp -Rpf /var/lib/mysql /var/lib/mysql.BAK
Login to WHM –> Tweak Settings –> MySQL -> 5.0 and Save settings
/scripts/mysqlup –force
/scripts/perlinstaller –force Bundle::DBD::mysql
/scripts/realperlinstaller –force DBD::mysql
Recompile PHP
You’re done 
