A control panel is tied with an operating system to maintain and check the controls and settings of it. The major functions performed by control panel are controling of web hosting accounts, account features, disk space, traffic, POP3/IMAP settings, disk partitions, software, network connections, date, time and other options. It also is used for managing [...]
By default Centos, RedHat and Fedora starts multiple daemons that are actually not needed, for example: nfs nfslock cups gpm and I am suggesting you disable these services asap. You can turn it off via chkconfig command or even remove from the execution at init levels as well. chkconfig –del cups chkconfig –level 3 cups [...]
My personal choice is Cpanel – it’s somehow more friendly for me and has a lot of more features. However, DirectAdmin requires less resources from my own experience. Anyway, I will stick with Cpanel – I have used it for years and it does a nice job with hosting small web sites. For large site, [...]
Avactis shopping card errors with Cpanel with Suhosin security patch activated
Cpanel, PHP No Comments »Some fellas are experiencing errors with long form post data – when users press send button not all form fields are submitted. This is because Cpanel with suhosin patch does accept only max post vars of 200. Avactis shopping cart users may experience problems with country post data. The fix is very easy, you need [...]
It’s no secret that Cpanel servers are load-hungry when you move quite a large site on the server. There are quite a few things to do: server optimization daemon optimization disabling built-in stats processing software updating logfile processing and much more. I suggest disabling built in automatic stats processing – awstats, analog and webalizer. You [...]
In order to update Apache, php and all the other required libs and packages you can execute /scripts/easyapache under root user via server shell. You will be provided with a few choices to continue installation with gd, freetype, phpsuexec, load previous config – depending on your system requirements. I usually choose option #5 but you [...]
You can manually update your linux cpanel servers by executing the following commands under the root login when you have logged in server shell via console, telnet (!) or SSH. yum update (if you have yum update package) /scripts/upcp (will upgrade Cpanel) /scripts/easyapache (will upgrade Apache, php..) Normal output from /scripts/upcp will be as follows: [...]
New Cpanel server DNS problem, also affects some servers after upgrade or/and update
Cpanel 1 Comment »OK, we have seen the following problem with a fresh Cpanel install. The problem is that named (Bind DNS server) is not starting and you get get hundreds of the following error messages: Stopping named: [FAILED] Starting named: [FAILED] ….. chattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device while reading flags on /var/named/chroot/proc chattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device [...]
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