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Accessing FTP accounts for Enkompass control panel!

Many wonder why when connecting to an Enkompass environment they now have to change the format of the username from the common format of  username or username@domain to domain|username. Note in the example below that the format is domain.tld|username per the new formatting in IIS7   Status:    Connecting to 10.1.104.142:21… Status:   ... [Read more of this article]

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Enabling ConfigServers Firewall (csf) clustering for Login Failure Daemon (lfd)

ConfigServer Firewal (csf) is a very lightweight and easy to configure firewall for linux systems. Its cPanel interface provides a very easy to access and control the firewall from the WHM (Web Host manager). One of the best part of it, it’s fully free.   In version 5, csf introduced  lfd (Login Failure Daemon) clustering which allows IP... [Read more of this article]

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Installing & using Atmail in cPanel

AtMail Open is a lightweight and powerful open source client for webmail. It is written in PHP aiming to provide a elegant Ajax webmail client for existing IMAP mailservers. It comes with less bloat and focuses on an intuitive, simple user interface. Atmail can be installed on many platforms including Linux. Recently cPanel has added Atmail support... [Read more of this article]

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Auto complete by hitting TAB does not work in Terminal

There may be situations when you are trying to autocomplete the file and/or directory name by hitting TAB button from keyboard but it is not working as expected. You may wondering why rather than autocompleting (or giving suggestions on multiple matches) the insertion point is just going far and far ! Probably the solution is very simple. The reason... [Read more of this article]

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Removing a directory using XML-API

In the previous article, we have shown you how to connect to cPanel’s front end (2082/2083) ports. In this article we will show you how to delete a directory in your file system using XML-API in PHP. Let’s say you want to delete a directory named ‘deleteme‘ in public_html directory.  So the path is /home/USER/public_html/deleteme.... [Read more of this article]

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How to connect cPanel’s ports using XML-API (PHP Class)?

cPanel’s XML-API is a wonderful way of doing stuffs programitically and remotely on its front end (domain owner control panel) and back end (WHM). However, the PHP client of XML-API, by default, connects to WHM Ports! If you are wondering how to connect to front end and do stuffs using user’s credentials rather than root credentials, this... [Read more of this article]

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How to send mails using Exim to domains having MX record as IP?

By default, Exim configured on cPanel does not allow to send mails to domains having MX records as IP. The domain’s MX must be a FQDN! However, you can tweak the exim configuration to obtain the same! In this example, domain.com has MX record as IP and not FQDN, see below domain.com. 3600 IN MX 10 XX.XX.XX.XX. Fix:- You will need to add... [Read more of this article]

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Creating custom button on reseller panel

This video covers how to create a custom button in your Plesk reseller hosting control panel. [Read more of this article] GD Star Ratinga WordPress rating system Read More →

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how to suspend and unsuspend a hosting account as reseller

Learn how to suspend and unsuspend a hosting account in your Plesk reseller hosting control panel. Check out the following video tutorial which is courtesy of micfo.com [Read more of this article] GD Star Ratinga WordPress rating system Read More →

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How to enable/disable temporary URL in cPanel

Most of the hosting provider disable temporary URL (http://server-IP/~user/) for security reason. You may need to enable temporary URL while the actual domain resolves. To enable temporary URL do the following steps. Log in into WHM Navigate to “Security Center >> Apache mod_userdir Tweak” Uncheck “Enable mod_userdir Protection”... [Read more of this article]

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Full site backup and restore in Shell

You can generate full site backup from individual cPanel account. However, for some reason if you want  backup several sites (but not all sites) it is a bit tedious to switch to every cPanel account and generate backups. If you are in such a situation, you can take backups easily from shell. However, you must be root (or root privileged user)  to... [Read more of this article]

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Cleaning backups of unused domains

cPanel Clean Backup cPanel backup functionality is a bit weird. It does not remove the taken backups of domains that are even removed years ago. If you do not regularly monitor this and clean unused backups, you may end up finishing you server’s storage. However, when your server has hundreds of customers accounts hosted and people are coming... [Read more of this article]

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[Podcast] Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificates Demystified

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[Podcast] Installing WordPress in cpanel!

Lindsey interviews David Grega, cPanel Technical Sales Representative, about how to install the very popular blogging software, WordPress, onto your website using cPanel. var so = new SWFObject("/wp-content/plugins/mp3-player-plugin-for-wordpress/player_options/playerMini.swf",... [Read more of this article]

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Configuring Samba with Webmin

The Webmin administration tool is a very powerful suite of web-based admin tools (for the Linux operating system) that have been around for some time. Webmin includes numerous modules covering nearly every aspect of Linux administration.  In this article we will show how to install Webmin and use it to configure your Samba server. We assume you... [Read more of this article]

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