Category Archives: cPanel

cPanel’s biggest bug, login with root password

I don’t know whether it is a bug or a feature. However, as this is unexpected, undoubtedly it is bug. The problem is that, when you try to login to cpanel’s domain owner interface (2082, 2083), if you provide a … Continue reading

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cPanel: Enable/disable specific webmail application per user

Today, I faced a situation where I need to show single webmail application to cPanel control panel user. Usually there are three (3) webmail clients. These are horde, squirrel mail, roundcube. However, I was advised to make sure that a … Continue reading

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cPanel database administering class

It is long time since I have worked with cPanel. My last work was cPanel Email Management  script that enables us to create/delete email accounts from outside of cPanel. Today I have worked with another cool thing. I have created … Continue reading

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kazila.com review

As a part of my hosting company assessment, in July I tested kazila.com. I found there name in WebHostingTalk forum. They were offering 600GB of space for $3.95/month. Isn’t it fair than so called unlimited space offers? But if you … Continue reading

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Setting up Remote MySQL in cPanel

Today my client was facing problem to setup a remote mysql connection. He wanted to connect a database which belongs to another server and domain. Its fairly simple. But most of the tasks remains on the remote server.

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Permission denied: .htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable

Do you get the following error message when you try to visit a site/your site?
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access / on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

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cPanel Bug

I am a regular user of WHM & cPanel. Recently I found a bug in cPanel Release Build 20683 which is now running in three of our servers.

You login to WHM. Then Click List Accounts. Your hosted domains will be listed. You should noticed that there is an quick password and email changer from some recent builds. To change password and/or contact address of any domain, there is + following by the domain name. Now you click on the + icon for a domain. You will see the password of that domain is shown in the contact address box.

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cPanel Email Management

Ahh! Thanks Allmighty. At last I have finished the 1st version of cPanel Email Management Script. From three days I am working on it. Though today, I mistakenly deleted two core files :( . So I had to start over.
Using this scripts anyone can give free email service to his visitors. Users can auto signup and manage their accounts. Admin also have some controls. The features are:

  • Users can registers themselves without intervention of site Admin
  • Admin can specify the quota for accounts
  • It can check whether the email address is already taken or not

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cPanel User Guide & Tutorial

cPanel BookI am using cPanel for more about 4 years. I wonder, how many features I did not know about until I read the book cPanel User Guide and Tutorial written by Aric Pedersen, working as System Administrator for Netenberg.com and several other companies.

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WHM Book

Managing a remote web server is never an easy game. I know many people who are not familiar with non-windows operating systems hence don’t wanna buy dedicated server as it takes much time to learn and managing server is bogey job for many. But now I believe the book titled “Web Host Manager” by Aric Pedersen should be the greatest gift of 2007 (as I reviewed it this year). Continue reading

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