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Featured Article Official Cpanel Newbie Guide Official Cpanel Newbie Guide
October 22, 2003 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 7.93 From 161 Voter(s)
The Official Cpanel Newbie Guide dedicated to providing web hosting companies and beginners everything you need to start using your Cpanel web server. HOWTO: Cpanel and WHM Newbie Guide - what you need to get started!
 

Preventing Spam with Antivirus.exim Preventing Spam with Antivirus.exim
May 10, 2006 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 8.82 From 28 Voter(s)
Cpanel servers have a nice little file called antivirus.exim. Most of you probably have never of this magic little gem. It’s a central filter for the exim mail server that lets you setup all kinds of wonderful filters to help stop spam from coming in and
 

Clean up Exim msglog Logging /var/spool/exim_incoming/msglog Clean up Exim msglog Logging /var/spool/exim_incoming/msglog
December 22, 2005 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 7.63 From 8 Voter(s)
Exim has a dirty habbit of storing useless logs and not cleaning after itself that can eat up all your disk space on /var if not taken care of. Exim msglog is the cuplrit and we have a solution for you.
 

Stop Receiving Spam with Cpanel Stop Receiving Spam with Cpanel
December 20, 2005 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 6.95 From 22 Voter(s)
There are few simple steps you can follow to minimize the amount of spam you receive to your inbox with Cpanel. We cover email filtering, spamassasin, default address and more tools.
 

Upgrading MySQL 4.0 to 4.1 in Cpanel Upgrading MySQL 4.0 to 4.1 in Cpanel
December 8, 2005 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 7.76 From 29 Voter(s)
MySQL 4.1 has been available for quite some time but many server admins still haven’t gotten around to getting their MySQL 4.0 upgraded to 4.1 We offer a quick and easy method to get this accomplished through your Cpanel/WHM server.
 

Limit IP downloads in Apache – Save Bandwidth Limit IP downloads in Apache – Save Bandwidth
November 4, 2005 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 8.89 From 19 Voter(s)
Limit the amount of downloads at the same time from and IP address - what a great idea to save yourself some bandwidth costs. It seems that no one is using it, we tried it and love it using mod_limitipconn.c
 

Changing Your Sites MX Record Changing Your Sites MX Record
October 12, 2005 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 7.69 From 62 Voter(s)
Change the MX record of your website HOWTO is an easy guide for modifying your MX record to direct mail from one mail server to another for Cpanel users.
 

Transfer Error md5sum Transfer Error md5sum
August 8, 2005 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 9.67 From 12 Voter(s)
The remote server didn't report a correct md5sum of the archive. Please ensure you selected the correct type of remote server. Learn how to fix this issue.
 

mod_auth_mysql Apache with cPanel mod_auth_mysql Apache with cPanel
March 23, 2005 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 5.50 From 8 Voter(s)
mod_auth_mysql is an Apache module that allows authentication using user and group data stored in MySQL databases. We'll guide you through installing modauthmysql on Apache with Cpanel/WHM.
 

cPanel Tutorial Guide cPanel Tutorial Guide
March 15, 2005 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 7.03 From 73 Voter(s)
cPanel tutorial is around 100 pages in length, and is organized the same way cPanel it. It contains very useful information on cPanel, sub parts, including screen shots, referrals, and much more.
 

Stop Spam At The Server with Exim RBL Stop Spam At The Server with Exim RBL
September 21, 2004 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 8.65 From 37 Voter(s)
Are you and your clients tired of getting bombarded with spam email? Stop spam before it gets to your inbox with Exim's RBL,realtime blackhole list, configuration options, an invaluable tool for any Cpanel admin.
 

Installing Mod_Throttle on cPanel Installing Mod_Throttle on cPanel
August 17, 2004 in by Jon
Rating: Average Rating : 7.08 From 12 Voter(s)
Do you need more granular control over some of your clients? Instead of limiting them to a certian amount of bandwidth per month, how about per week, day or even hour? Apache module mod_throttle is the answer.
 

Installing mod_bandwidth For the Ultimate in Apache Utilization Control Installing mod_bandwidth For the Ultimate in Apache Utilization Control
August 3, 2004 in by Jon
Rating: Average Rating : 6.10 From 10 Voter(s)
Apache module mod_bandwidth allows you to completely control a users Apache utilization. Limit bandwidth per second, number of concurrent connections, file sizes and more.
 

Use Exiscan to Scan For Viruses Use Exiscan to Scan For Viruses
July 22, 2004 in by Rack911
Rating: Average Rating : 6.55 From 11 Voter(s)
This tutorial will explain how to make use of the exiscan patch applied to exim used in cpanel. Many cPanel admins use Mailscanner to protect their clients from viruses, but there IS a better way!
 

Fix Log Rotation Problems Fix Log Rotation Problems
July 14, 2004 in by Jon
Rating: Average Rating : 9.84 From 19 Voter(s)
Logrotate still does not properly rotate all log files, even though this has been a known problem for over a year. We take a fresh look at some of the logs that Logrotate misses.
 

Change All Package Themes in Cpanel Change All Package Themes in Cpanel
June 25, 2004 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 4.00 From 1 Voter(s)
Have you ever wanted to change all users’ package themes/skins from Tree to Xskin server wide without going through each package one at a time? We have a quick tutorial on how to change all user package themes in Cpanel.
 

Change All User Themes in Cpanel Change All User Themes in Cpanel
June 25, 2004 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 5.40 From 5 Voter(s)
Have you ever wanted to change all users’ themes/skins from Tree to Xskin server wide without going through each user account one at a time? We have a quick tutorial on how to change all user themes in Cpanel.
 

Updating Apache using Cpanel EasyApache Updating Apache using Cpanel EasyApache
June 7, 2004 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 6.55 From 29 Voter(s)
EasyApache is a pre configured script that allows you to easily update Apache Web server through WHM or SSH. In this tutorial we will show you how to update apache using SSH /scripts/easyapache.
 

Exim Extended Logging Exim Extended Logging
June 3, 2004 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 8.13 From 16 Voter(s)
What this addition does is it adds valuable logging information to your exim_mainlog file so that you can determine where messages are coming from, whos sending the message and from what directory on your server the user NOBODY is originating from, if you
 

Cpanel Video Tutorials Cpanel Video Tutorials
May 31, 2004 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 7.09 From 44 Voter(s)
Web Hosting Tutorials on setting up email, creating a POP account, backing up your site, creating a MySQL database and more cpanel tutorials.
 

Linux Apache ASP for Cpanel Linux Apache ASP for Cpanel
April 18, 2004 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 6.00 From 10 Voter(s)
Apache::ASP provides an Active Server Pages port to the Apache Web Server with Perl scripting only, and enables developing of dynamic web applications with session management and embedded Perl code running on Linux systems.
 

How to hide bind version - Cpanel How to hide bind version - Cpanel
April 1, 2004 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 6.00 From 9 Voter(s)
This quick tutorial shows you how to hide your bind version from anyone snooping on your machine.
 

Fix Cpanel Quotas Fix Cpanel Quotas
March 30, 2004 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 6.43 From 21 Voter(s)
Cpanel tutorial to fix Cpanel when the user quotas aren't reading properly or showing unlimited for all user accounts using /scripts/fixquotas
 

Disabling Password Reset Option Disabling Password Reset Option
March 12, 2004 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 6.00 From 9 Voter(s)
How to turn off the password reset option for failed logins to Cpanel.
 

Setting up Reseller Private Nameservers Setting up Reseller Private Nameservers
March 12, 2004 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 7.00 From 41 Voter(s)
Learn how to assign reseller accounts with their own private name servers such as ns1 and ns2 for their own clients in WHM.
 

Installing DrWEB server antivirus for Linux CPanel Installing DrWEB server antivirus for Linux CPanel
February 18, 2004 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 8.00 From 6 Voter(s)
Setting up an antivirus scanner, DrWeb, on Cpanel servers.
 

Properly Reject Invalid Email Properly Reject Invalid Email
December 18, 2003 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 7.48 From 21 Voter(s)
Set Exim to Properly Reject Invalid Email the right way and let your Cpanel server run a little easier.
 

Securing Your /tmp Partition with Cpanel/WHM Securing Your /tmp Partition with Cpanel/WHM
November 7, 2003 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 8.89 From 54 Voter(s)
If you are renting a server then chances are you only have one big partition. Learn how to create a secure /tmp partition even while your server is already up and running on Cpanel/WHM.
 

Setting up Private Nameservers in Cpanel Setting up Private Nameservers in Cpanel
October 28, 2003 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 7.75 From 101 Voter(s)
We'll show you the ropes in how to setup cpanel nameservers and configure them properly so you can run ns1 and ns2.yoursite.com
 

Force (SSL) secure logins in WHM and Cpanel Force (SSL) secure logins in WHM and Cpanel
October 28, 2003 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 5.97 From 29 Voter(s)
Change /whm and /cpanel aliases to https making all logins encrypted and secure.
 

Default Index Page on New Accounts Default Index Page on New Accounts
October 28, 2003 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 7.69 From 16 Voter(s)
With this addon clients will have a default index.html page when they visit their new account instead of a directory listing.
 

Modify Bandwidth Exceeded Page Modify Bandwidth Exceeded Page
October 27, 2003 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 4.29 From 24 Voter(s)
Learn how to modify the CPanel bandwidth exceeded page when a clients site uses all their bandwidth up.
 

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