Category WHM/cPanel

WHM/cPanel

Force recalculate / refresh cPanel disk space usage

Today we’ll look at how to force recalculate / refresh your cPanel’s accounts disk space usage. This can be quite annoying, at times the usage does not update even though you’ve freed up space and it should. There is a…

theshell
April 5, 2021

WHM/cPanel

Install cPanel / WHM on CentOS 7.7

Today we’ll install cPanel or WHM on CentOS 7.7 cPanel is the most popular control panel in the shared hosting space. It is so widely used that it is the defacto control panel in the industry, Plesk comes in close…

theshell
December 19, 2019

WHM/cPanel

Disable server wide directory listing on WHM/cPanel

On a newly installed WHM/cPanel server if you access a folder inside a domain which doesn’t have a index page in it, the server will throw you the complete directly structure. This can be bad as this exposes information about…

theshell
September 2, 2016

CentOS 6, WHM/cPanel

xmlrpc.php attack on WordPress – High CPU usage

Just noticed that incoming emails were being delayed by about 30 minutes, we host our emails on Google Apps, so that couldn’t have been the issue. Next step was to investigate the server where the DNS of our domain was…

theshell
August 16, 2015

CentOS 6, WHM/cPanel

High disk usage – Other folder in disk usage – WHM / cPanel

WHM will count any file who’s owner is the same as the cpanel account. In case cPanel reports Others in the quota then run the following command as root: find / -user USER >> The resulting file will list all…

theshell
June 29, 2015

CentOS 6, Plesk, WHM/cPanel

Nginx – Cron – 301 Moved Permanently – Moved Permanently

I really haven’t been able to get to the bottom of why this occurs by I’m posting a solution that worked for me below: For us, this occurred when running the following while set in cron /usr/bin/curl After looking…

theshell
December 12, 2014

CentOS 6, WHM/cPanel

Install ImageMagick – WHM / cPanel 11.42 – CentOS 6.5

To see whether you have ImageMagick installed, issue the following at shell /usr/bin/convert --version If it is installed you’ll see version information for ImageMagick, if not issue the following at shell /scripts/installimagemagick Just restart apache from inside WHM and that should be all…

theshell
May 5, 2014