cPanel utilizes a 3 tier structure that provides functionality for administrators, resellers, and end-user website owners to control the various aspects of website and server administration through a standard web browser.
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How can my site detect mobile phones and switch visitors to a mobile Domain?
My Question is that when user enter the website: http://www.example.com then they will just go to automatically to http://www.example.mobi how can i do this .. is their any technique behind that.
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How to use the private and public keys?
I am new to ssl certificates, i wanted to learn about ssl certificates, and I generated private and public keys myself while logged into cpanel, I wonder how to use those and generate a secured ...
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Allowing temporary access to cpanel for freelancer
I'm currently using a2hosting's cpanel on a shared hosting account. I'd like to temporarly give access to a freelance developper so he can upload some php files, csv files and create tables in my ...
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having trouble installing a perl script
I am having trouble installing a perl script. I have upload it to the correct directory, when I say to install it by name I get the following error:
Bad module name (ultravnc_repeater.pl) detected, ...
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How to grep (or find) on cPanel?
How can I search for a specific string (function name or a variable name) in my files which are in various directories under cPanel file manager?
I have been using a library directory and functions ...
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How do I disable username prefixes on mySQL databases?
I know of the potential risks.
The only "useful" thing I've been able to find after Google-ing is this, on the cPanel website, which has no context whatsoever.
Does anyone know how to do this?
My ...
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Turning off Webalizer and/or AW Stats
On our dedicated server, we have AW Stats and Webalizer both running.
I see I can turn them off in WHM.
We use Google Analytics, but also AW Stats sometimes. We never use Webzlier. My question is: ...
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CPanel - Wild card SSL - How to point *.domain.com to one root and sub.domain.com to another root
I have a wildcard (*.domain.com) SSL certificate installed on my CPanel server. I have domain.com configured to point to /domain.com as its document root and use this wildcard SSL certificate. I ...
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Increase Servers folder depth limit for running scripts?
I have a CMS on my site that utilises TinyMCE (the WYSIWYG text editor). The issue is that TinyMCE cannot browse for files (example: images) on the web server. I get the error:
Error 324 ...
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Password protect an alias virtual directory
I have a main domain being hosted through CPanel. I also have a sub-domain that I would like to appear as a path under the main domain instead of as a sub-domain. So I have:
http://example.com/ ...
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Google results show .info domain instead of .com
I am on shared hosting currently and i registered this account with a .info domain as the main domain.... say MyDomain.info . However, the site runs from MyDomain.com .
This is a cpanel based ...
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Using cPanel through company proxy/firewall keeps resetting login
It's really frustrating; my cPanel access keeps logging me out with an "IP address changed" message whenever I try to access it from a work computer. I'm assuming this maybe has something to do with ...
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What are dompdf_img_* files?
I noticed recently that my tmp directory is starting to fill up and it seems that it is filling up with file that start with dompdf_img_*. Whatever program that is creating these files is not ...
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Open-Source cPanel alternative?
Are there any decent (i.e. stable and mature enough to use on paying clients) open-source alternatives to the cPanel web hosting control panel system?
I'm fine with paying for it, but it must be ...
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Accessing PHPMyAdmin via URL (without cPanel)
I am having issues accessing PHPMyAdmin from cPanel. It will not allow me to as I am logged in a root.
I cannot seem to be able to make another account for cPanel either, and research indicates this ...
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If C-Panel Indexing Manager sets a folder to “No Indexing” can it be crawled by a webcrawler?
People are able to view directories / folders on my site right now. So, they could go to mysite.com/images and see the full index. To prevent this, C-Panel offers an option to set a directory / ...
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Why am I getting cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi coming up when I browse my webpage?
I've recently set up a website with a smaller hosting company. The plan has a dedicated IP. They sent me emails to say it's all set up, but now their support channels are all unresponsive even though ...
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How to easily delete all email forwarders in cPanel?
I know that I can import a list of email forwarders using CPanel, but how can I delete a list? I want to manage 300+ addresses - as a membership list for my organization. I want to be able to delete ...
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Setting up multiple domains on one Cpanel account
I set up an account on Cpanel for a domain "abc.com". However, if I wanted to point the A record for "def.com" to abc's existing account, what changes would I have to make server side?
I'm aware that ...
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how to restore email from only a full website backup?
I am in a helpless position right now..Till last month,I was hosting my website and email accounts with hostgator and everything was going fine till I decided to switch hosting for some services that ...
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Configuring A Subdomain (cPanel) - www works, subdomain on it's own doesn't
I've created a sub domain on my website using cPanel at test.mydomain.com, and this created a folder in my main 'www' directory called test.
In this folder is a folder called cgi-bin, and it seems to ...
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How do I send copies of e-mails to a handler script if my e-mail is hosted with Google Apps?
I'm trying to figure out if there is a way that an email can be sent to two mail servers. One being a local server configured in CPanel and the other is Google Apps.
I've already configured the ...
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CMS Made Simple: Why does home page return a 404 under www subdomain?
Anyone know why my homepage wont load with the www prefix.
Links such as
www.mysite.net/about-us
will load fine
but
www.mysite.net
returns a 404.
Everypage works including the home page if I ...
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Put files outside of directory, so none can access it (Apache, PHP, MySQL)
I have a file structure like this:
public/admin
public/some folder
includes/
I set up a sub-domain page.mysite.com and I pointed the directory to be mysite.com/page/public/admin. I thought that ...
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Cpanel deleted subdomain now shows 500 error
I created a subdomain in cpanel and then decided that I actually didn't need it, so I deleted it using cpanel.
Now when I navigate to that subdomain in my browser I get a 500 server error. If I try ...
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Set nameserver in WHM with VPS that has no domain name?
I have a new VPS I want to use to manage sites on. I need to set up nameservers so that I can point the domain names to the new servers. I know nameservers usually look like ns1.example.com where ...
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pointing a parked subdomain to a real subdomain
I have two registered domains. Say the domains are:
originaldomain.com , and parkeddomain.com
parkeddomain.com points to originaldomain.com
I also have a few subdomains in originaldomain.com, and I ...
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Connecting to my new server
I have bought the hosting and now I have successfully created a database and new user and I have enter phpmyadmin from cPanel to create database.
Now everything is done. But where can I find ...
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How can I tell if I have root access to my server?
I have a website hosted in a web hosting service called Hosting24. I'd like to migrate to Liquidweb, and the guys at Liquidweb say they will handle the whole migration process for me which is good ...
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Why is my subdomain not showing up?
I am hosting a website on Host Gator: http://www.flowerwood.com. It is working correctly. I also have a subdomain that I setup using cPanel called http://plants.flowerwood.com
Right now I have a very ...
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Is there a way to retrieve a FTP/cPanel accounts password using WHM?
I know you can reset an accounts password with WHM, but does any one know a way to retrieve an existing one?
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core.* files eating up server space (~50MB)
I'm renting server space from someone and, upon logging in my control panel after quite sometime, noticed an abnormal spike (~50MB) in the disk usage. Upon investigating, I found a lot of core.* files ...
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Website hacked, cpanel password not encrypted?
Yesterday I found out that all the websites that are hosted on my webhosting site were hacked. I tried to change my password, and unbelievably, I COULD SEE my password there. This means my password is ...
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Is there anyway I can check the load time of a webpage in cpanel?
I found that sometimes my website is slow, and I suspect that this is the web host's problem. But the web host insists on that the website is fast. The problem, I suspect, is that the website is fast ...
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Index manager in cpanel. Do contents still get indexed with “No Indexing”?
Simple question.
A folder, lets say for example abc.com/images/
Is being displayed on google as "index of", which I don't like.
The contents of this folder are important, and it is important that ...
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Changing MySQL password in WHM
When resetting an account password in WHM, I get a checkbox with this option: "Sync MySQL password with account password."
If an account has multiple MySQL databases, what password is it going to ...
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Why curl SSL disable CURL?
I saw this in cpanel whm on Exhaustive Options List
CurlSSL [More Info ↑] This option will make the following changes
to your profile prior to the build:
Disables: Curl
Why?
Which ...
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Best Automatic Backup Solution Options?
I have a VPS with WiredTree.com in which I have access to WHM.
I'm looking for a good backup solution where I can do the following things
Backups both the Database and Files
Allow me access to the ...
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Full password not required to access password protected directory?
I password protected a directory in cPanel. When I went to access the page in my browser, I accidentally hit backspace on the password before I hit enter. Surprisingly, the page still loaded. I played ...
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Email forward to Exchange
We have a linux Webserver and one of our clients wants us to host their email only, not their site itself. NetworkSolutions manages the domain name. They want us to get their incoming mail and have it ...
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Enabling/disabling proftpd accounts with PHP and WHM
I have a VPS with WHM/CPanel which is being used just by me. It's utilizing proftpd. I'd like to, via a PHP script, disable/enable a specific FTP account. I've done this by having PHP call a bash ...
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Use Addon domain within login name for FTP account in cPanel
Let's say I have a cPanel (version 11.30.6 (build 3), cPanel Pro 1.0 (RC1)) shared hosting account for myDomain.com.
I also have several other "Addon" domain names on this account, each with their ...
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how can I change cpanel default page to index.php / index.html
I have created a new domain and uploaded index.html to public directory. but it isnt displaying and cpanel default page is displaying instead. how can I change the same??
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How to download /var/log via ftp cpanel
I have a server.
I want to downlad /var/log so I can analyze why the server crash yesterday.
However, if I login as regular user I can't download the file because it doesn't give me access to root.
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Create subdomains via C-Panel or via domain registrar?
I am a novice, so excuse me if it sounds dummy. I read a few similar questions on this topic here but they did not answer my question.
I have a personal website, hosted with C-panel control panel. ...
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How do I prevent access to an add-on domain's root directory from main hosting domain name
I have an add-on domain in my cPanel website. The root directory for it is under the root of the hosting. How can I prevent access through the main domain?
For example, addondomain.com is configured ...
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Files uploaded to hosting account but DNS is not finding the new files
I got a new domain http://alfer-ks.com. I have upload files to the server using cPanel, but when I try to load the website, it just shows the cPanel default page, which shows that Apache is running ...
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cPanel - Moving mails to another host
I need to transfer about 20 addon domains and their email accounts to a new host, where I already have some sites, mail accounts, databases etc..
For some reason, I think that my best bet is to ...
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How to update DNS Zone for a static domain
I am running this site: www.thetechnofreaks.com on Wordpress.
Recently I came across a plugin that claims to increase the page load efficiency of my site. the plugin details can be found here: ...
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Help deploying using Capistrano to HostGator
My company uses HostGator to host our web sites, and I'm having a heck of a time figuring out what my final steps are to get a functioning RoR app up there.
I've got all the way up to configuring ...
