cPanel server booting to grub menu
So you recently updated and you rebooted and now your cPanel server is not booting and instead booting to a Grub prompt?: grub> This is typically due to the system not being able to f... Read More
Find Current Inode Usage Using SSH
Need to find out how many inodes each user is using on your cPanel server? Simply run the following command from SSH: cd /home echo "Inode usage for: $(pwd)" ; for d in `find -ma... Read More
cPanel Find and Delete Trash Folders
If you find you have a lot of users with large amounts of files in their Trash in cPanel, you can run the following command from SSH to delete them all in one go!: find /home/*/.trash/* -exec r... Read More
Find and Remove a File or Folder in SSH
Need to find and remove a particular file and/or folder and know the name, but not the location? Use the following command to find and remove it!: find . -name "error_log" -exec rm -rf {} \;... Read More
IP addressing MISSING in WHM List Accounts
When in List Accounts in cPanel's WHM, you find an account with the IP address set as "MISSING", try the running the following command from SSH: /scripts/rebuildhttpdconf &nb... Read More
cPanel Log Locations
cPanel All cPanel logs are located in the folder: /usr/local/cpanel/logs The access_log contains all traffic to WHM, cPanel, and Webmail: /usr/local/cpanel/logs/access_log The error_l... Read More
How To See Which Modules Are Enabled For Apache
How do I see which modules are currently enabled/installed for Apache? You can simply enter the following command from an SSH session to give a list of currently active Apache modules: apachectl -t -D... Read More
Manually Export MySQL Database
How do I manually export or "dump" a MySQL database from command line or SSH? You can dump a MySQL database to the current folder from an SSH session using the following command: mysqldump &... Read More
Search For Specific Text In File
How can I find a specific text string in a file or multiple files from an SSH session? You can use the grep command to easily find text within files. From an SSH session, run the following command: gr... Read More
Bulk Edit DNS Zone On cPanel
How do I bulk edit a DNS zone on cPanel? Changed nameserver name and need to update all the DNS zones on your cPanel server? Using the replace command from an SSH session will make it simple. Just use... Read More
Explanation Of Cron Times
New to setting up cron jobs and need to know what each digit means? The following is an example of each digit and its function: * * * * &nbs... Read More
Find And Remove Old cPanel Backups
How do I find and remove old cPanel backups? Use the following command from an SSH session to find all backups that are older than 60 days and delete them: find /backup/weekly/incremental/accounts -ma... Read More
Rebuild Named.conf
How do I fix my cPanel DNS configuration or rebuild named.conf? Running the following script from an SSH session will fix most issues when your named.conf file becomes corrupt: cd /etc;mv named.conf n... Read More
cPHulk Whitelist IP Address From SSH
How to whitelist IP address in cPHulk from the command line? From an SSH session, run the following command: /scripts/cphulkdwhitelist <ipaddress> Where <ipaddress> is the IP address you w... Read More
CloudLinux Lvestats Not Working
How to fix CloudLinux Lvestats when they stop working? Run the following command from an SSH session; service lvestats stop;killall -9 lvestats-server;rm -rf /var/lve/lveinfo.db;service lvestats start... Read More
Create Cpmove File From Incremental cPanel Backup
How to create a cpmove file from a cPanel incremental backup? A cpmove file can be created by running the following command from an SSH session: tar -zcf /home/cpmove-<username>.tar.gz <incre... Read More
cPanel Package Account
How to package (make a full account backup) a cPanel account from SSH? From an SSH session, run the following command: /scripts/pkgacct <username> <destination> Where <username> is t... Read More
Change All Folders To 755 And Files To 644
How to reset file/folder permissions to folder to 755 and files to 644? Run the following command from an SSH session: chmod -R ugo-x,u+rwX,go+rX,go-w <path> Where <path> is the physical p... Read More