Security – cPanel Tricks

cPHulk Whitelist IP Address From SSH

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Scott

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 wish to whitelist.

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Scott

Securing the /tmp folder on cPanel is easy.

cPanel has a script that will do this for you. With root access, using an SSH seesion, run the following command:

/scripts/securetmp

Once complete, you will need to reboot, so run:

reboot

How to install Comodo WAF mod_security firewall?

What is Comodo WAF?

Comodo WAF is a software based web application filter for use mod_security on cPanel based systems.

It provides a large set of preconfigured rules for mod_security to block most common attacks and exploits.

To install Comodo WAF, you must first register an account with Comodo (Free) and then run the following with root access from an SSH session:

cd /root;wget https://waf.comodo.com/cpanel/cwaf_client_install.sh;chmod 755 cwaf_client_install.sh;./cwaf_client_install.sh