SSH is a tool for secure remote login over insecure networks. It provides an encrypted terminal session with strong authentication of both the server and client, using public-key cryptography. 1. Use Strong Passwords/Usernames choose passwords that contains: Minimum of 8 characters Mix of upper and lower case letters Mix of letters and numbers Non alphanumeric characters (e.g. special characters such as ! ” $ % ^ etc)
RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks.The main purpose of raid is to increase logical capacity of storage devices used,improve read/write performance and ensure redundancy in case of a hard disk failure. Raid devices are marked by two letters and a number. Eg. md0,md1,md2. Raid is mostly used in large file servers where data accessibility is higher. Raid unit appears to be equivalent to a single large capacity disk drive. The remarkable benefit of disk array is that if any single disk in the RAID fails, the system and array still continues to function without …
If you encounter the error: in your PHP application, it means your code is using a deprecated function that is no longer supported in modern PHP versions. This issue commonly appears after upgrading PHP, especially when migrating to PHP 5.4 or later. Understanding why this Deprecated Function error occurs and how to fix it will help ensure your application works properly on newer PHP environments. What Causes the Deprecated Function Error? The set_magic_quotes_runtime() function was used in older PHP versions to automatically escape special characters in incoming data and database …
Webmail applications such as Horde and SquirrelMail are commonly used in hosting environments to access email accounts through a browser. Sometimes, users may encounter the following error while trying to log in: Even when the correct login credentials are used, this issue may still occur due to server configuration problems or incorrect domain settings. In this blog, we’ll explain the common causes of the Horde/Squirrel Mail login issue and how to fix it easily on a cPanel server. What is Horde/Squirrel Mail? Horde Webmail Horde is a feature-rich webmail application …
We can install additional modules not listed in the cPanel easyapache config options .To add custom module, we must know the version of Apache and PHP to which we need to add the module. Easy Apache allows us to specify any configure option supported by Apache and/or PHP. Place the option in the appropriate file; the files are as follows: Apache 1.3.x /var/cpanel/easy/apache/rawopts/Apache1 Apache 2.0.x /var/cpanel/easy/apache/rawopts/Apache2 Apache 2.2.x /var/cpanel/easy/apache/rawopts/Apache2_2 All PHP 4.x versions /var/cpanel/easy/apache/rawopts/all_php4 All PHP 5.x versions /var/cpanel/easy/apache/rawopts/all_php5 Mod_suPHP /var/cpanel/easy/apache/rawopts/all_suphp Specific PHP Version /var/cpanel/easy/apache/rawopts/PHP-X.X.X Adding entries to the appropriate …
In certain situations such as security incidents, compromised accounts, or routine security maintenance, administrators may need to reset passwords for all cPanel accounts on a server. The following script helps automate the process by generating strong passwords and updating them for every cPanel and FTP account. Step 1: Create the Password Change Script Create a script file named changepass.sh using your preferred editor: Add the following content: This script: Step 2: Set Execute Permission Make the script executable: Step 3: Run the Script Execute the script using: Output After execution: …
RHEL5 and CentOS 5 run an older version of ssh, which makes doing a chroot sftp or scp more difficult. Pre-requisites:- You need to have following packages and it’s dependencies installed:- Yum install -y rpm-devel rpm-build pam pam-devel perl openssl-devel tcp-wrappers Steps:- It is not recommended to build RPM as root user. 1. Login to server using SSH as a normal user. 2. In your home directory create a file .rpmmacros and add following entires to it. %_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild 3. Next step is creating the build environment. In your …
For many reason Mysql service may go down. If the mysql service is showing down, first you check the mysql log file ‘/var/log/mysqld.log’ for errors. If you get the following errors in log, you can easily fix this by correcting the access permission of mysql (/var/lib/mysql where the ibdata1 is located) directory to mysql user access permission. 101114 12:45:43 mysqld started 101114 12:45:43 InnoDB: Operating system error number 13 in a file operation. InnoDB: The error means mysqld does not have the access rights to InnoDB: the directory. InnoDB: File …
Sometime you will get error Error from park wrapper: domain.com is already configured. while creating a parked domain ‘domain.com’ in Cpanel. This is because the entry for that particular domain is present in some of the configuration file in the server. You can fix this error by removing those entry from the server. If we see an error like this please check the following files for that particular domains entry and remove those entry if you found any. /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf /etc/named.conf /var/cpanel/users/username /scripts/updateuserdomains /var/named/domain.db /etc/userdomains /etc/localdomains /etc/trueuserdomains /etc/trueuserowners /etc/valiases/domain.com /etc/vdomainaliases/domain.com /etc/vfilters/domain.com …
While creating an email account in cPanel, you may encounter the error: This error typically means the system cannot find the required directory structure to generate mailbox configuration files. In most cases, the issue occurs because the etc directory inside the user’s home folder is missing or was accidentally deleted. Let’s understand why this happens and how to fix it safely. Why This Error Occurs When an email account is created in cPanel, the system automatically generates configuration files inside: Inside this directory, cPanel creates the passwd file, which stores …