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WHM Scripts

When cPanel and WHM is installed, a number of predefined scripts become available in your server’s /scripts directory.

For example, if you wanted to run the update script, you would type:

#easyapache — Upgrades and reinstalls Apache.
#phpextensionmgr — Manages PHP extensions.
# restartsrv_* — Restarts a service.
# *up — Updates a service.

Selecting a cPanel Build Type Pre-Installation

You can define your build type by defining the variable CPANEL. cPanel offers 4 build types to choose from: stable, release, current, and edge.

To choose the build type, add 1 of the 4 following lines to /etc/cpupdate.config.

The cPanel and WHM interfaces will be installed according to which of the 4 options you define in the configuration file.

Installing and Configuring CSF Firewall

ConfigServer Firewall & Security. A Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) firewall, Login/Intrusion Detection.

This article demonstrates how to install and configure the CSF (configserver) firewall. CSF can be used on a wide range of Linux systems, including those running cPanel.

To configure CSF modify the config files in /etc/csf/ - or if you are running WHM you can modify the CSF settings in there. By default CSF opens the standard cPanel ports.

If you have APF + BFD you will need to disable it, you can use the following to do so:

To Fix Common reasons for quota problems

Run the following command as root user.

Try finding other files owned by the user.

This will list all files owned by this user that could be affecting the quota reported by Cpanel.

Cpanel/WHM sometimes has problems with the user quota files causing all users accounts to have unlimited disk space available or 0 megs of disk space in use.