Disable SSH from WHM
You can disable SSH by doing this:
1: Log in to your WHM
2: Under "Security Center" click on "Host Access Control"
3: On "Daemon" type: sshd
4: On "Access List" type: ALL or ALL except 12.42.54.65
This is your ip address so you can still login to SSH.
5: On "Action" type: deny
6: Click "Save Host Access List:
How to assign dedicated IP to subdomain
You might want to assign dedicated IP to your subdomain for some reason such as apply SSL to your subdomain.
If you are using cPanel and wish to set dedicated IP to your subdomain, you will find no else where to do that.
However, this could still be able to fix as this article.
Scenario,
- You have domain domain.com and subdomain blog.domain.com.
- You wish to set dedicated IP for blog.domain.com which originally 100.100.100.100 and result as blog.domain.com resolve to 10.0.0.1.
1. Log into SSH, go to the folder of /var/cpanel/userdata,
cd /var/cpanel/userdata
2. Select the cPanel username folder such as mickgenie.
cd /var/cpanel/userdata/mickgenie
3. You will now see the following file,
domain.com
domain.com.cache
blog.domain.com
blog.domain.com.cache
main
main.cache
4. Open the file named blog.domain.com,
vi blog.domain.com
5. You should find the content as below,
ip: 100.100.100.100
6. Change it to detail as below,
ip: 10.0.0.1
7. Now, you have done but you will need to rebuilt the Apache,
/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/rebuildhttpdconf
8. Restart the Apache services,
/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/restartsrv_apache
Ways to free up cPanel server space
Most of the time, we are advise to keep our server disk space clean. To ensure it is clean, you may follow the following step,
1) Clean yum cache file
yum clean all
2) Delete fantastico backup file
rm -rfv /home/*/fantastico_backups
3) Delete cPanel backup file
rm -rfv /home/*/backup*.tar.gz
4) Delete cPanel file manager temp file
rm -fv /home/*/tmp/Cpanel_*
5) Terminate unwanted account
To show which account is suspended:
ls /var/cpanel/suspended
Terminate them (y/n is depend on if you wish to remain the DNS or not)
/scripts/killacct user y/n
cPanel Daily Process Log empty
Some times, you will found out your cPanel Daily Process Log appear empty and you have no idea what is happening as there do not have any error log from the WHM.
For this case, you may easily fix it by restarting the crond services. Log into the SSH, run the following command.
service crond restart
Check again if the Daily Process Log showing there or checking the crond status.
service crond status
If the above suggestion not working, you may run the following command from SSH.
/scripts/checkperlmodules –full –force
Default Bandwidth Exceeded Page
In this tutorial you will learn how to modify the Cpanel bandwidth exceeded page. This page is shown for clients automatically when they run out of bandwidth. Bandwidth counts are reset every month.
Step 1: Login to the server as root in SSH.
Step 2: This will make a backup copy of the original file incase you need to revert back
cp /usr/local/cpanel/apache/mod_bwlimited.c /usr/local/cpanel/apache/mod_bwlimited.c.bak
Step 3: Then type:
pico -w /usr/local/cpanel/apache/mod_bwlimited.c
Scroll down until you reach the section where you'll see the HTML code for the bandwidth page or do a search for it in Pico #: Ctrl+W then paste this in: <HTML><HEAD>n<TITLE>509 Bandwidth Limit Exceeded</TITLE>
Change it to whatever you like... carefully.
Step 4: Save the file while still in pico #:
Crtl+X then Y

