Uninstall Cloudlinux from cPanel : # wget -O cldeploy http://repo.cloudlinux.com/cloudlinux/sources/cln/cldeploy # sh cldeploy -c Please, note that some of the packages from CloudLinux repo will still be present. They are same as CentOS packages, and don’t have to be removed. They will be updated in the future from CentOS repositories, as new versions come out. You can use below steps further: 1) Check if your…
Tweaks to prevent Spamming on cPanel server
Spamming on cPanel server is very common if you have not taken proper steps to secure it. In the following article we suggest you to follow the tips and settings on the server. Tweaks to prevent Spamming on cPanel server Setting in – Exim Configuration Manager 1. Login to WHM control panel by using root user 2. Goto Main >> Service Configuration >> Exim Configuration…
phpMyAdmin asking for login details
Sometimes you may face this issue when you click phpMyAdmin after logging into cPanel. phpMyAdmin will ask for login details even though you may have logged in to cPanel. to fix this, you can do the following: Please follow the steps given below to change the cpanel password to avoid this from happening. 1) Login to cPanel with current password 2) Goto cpanel >> Preferences…
How to configure clustered nameservers on cPanel server
As you know the importance of having clustered nameservers on cPanel servers, once you setup DNS cluster then the chance for DNS appears down will be lowered. This will be applicable for the user’s having more than one cPanel server, this can be done easily from your WHM. For that please follow the steps that we have mentioned below, 1. Make sure that you have…
How to change timezone for MySQL on a cPanel server
For many of the websites there will be different time elements used for displaying time. It will use the server time this, but in some cases we need to have different time for the website and it is not possible to change the server time. So in that case we can change the timezone for MySQL to keep the website updated with the required timezone. For…
How to check mysql processlist on a cPanel server
There are different ways for checking mysql processlist from a cPanel server. As you all know for most of the production server it is needed to check mysql process list for checking the currently running queries and for finding slow queries that slow down the website loading speed. You can check MySQL process list from command line in the following ways, Enter into mysql from…
Issue related with WORDPRESS :: XMLRPC.PHP ATTACK!
WordPress is the most targeted CMS nowadays and needs to be updated regularly. Recently I have seen attacks on wordpress :: xmlrpc.php using POST requests and the attack is large enough to take down / freeze the server. The top or ps aufxw shows most of the xmlrpc.php requests as below : successroute4414 1.3 0.4 85512 35544 ? R 20:57 0:00 | \_ /usr/bin/php /home/successroute/public_html/wordpress/xmlrpc.php…
CloudLinux Management on cPanel server
Installation You can download latest CloudLinux ISO and use it to install CloudLinux on your server: Latest stable CloudLinux 6.4 ISO: x86_64 version: Please search ISO on Google i386 version: Please search Latest ISO on Google If you want to convert your existing server to CloudLinux you need to get CloudLinux activation key from. Get <activation_key> either by getting trial subscription or by purchasing…
Completely Uninstall cloudlinux from cpanel server
How to completely remove cloudlinux from cpanel server. You can always uninstall CloudLinux. In this case, we will ‘convert’ the system back to CentOS. Even if the original system was RHEL — we will still convert to ‘CentOS’ state. Following this will be done: 1.LVE related packages will be removed 2.CloudLinux repositories & yum plugin will be removed 3.CentOS repositories will be setup At the…
Understanding Linux server services
Some common web related services running on a Linux server are, but not limited to, include: httpd (Apache), mysqld (MySQL), vsftpd (Very Secure FTP), named (BIND), iptables (packet filtering ruleset), sshd (Secure Shell), network (network related services) and various others. Usually these services are started at boot time. To check what services are installed on the server, you can use the chkconfig tool. For example:…
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