Category Archives: Cpanel
How to disable 2 factor authentication via command line on a cPanel server
If you have enabled Two-Factor Authentication on your WHM, but have lost access to get your codes, you can disable it via SSH command line. To disable it via command line, ssh to the server and run this command: whmapi1 twofactorauth_disable_policy This turns two-factor auth off. However, it does not delete the current two-factor setups. …
Have hidden files displayed in file manager on all accounts on cPanel server
There is no way in the WHM to enable show hidden files on all accounts. Currently the only official way to enable this is to log into each cPanel account, click on the file manager, click on settings, then put a check mark beside show hidden files. If you wish to have hidden files displayed …
How to stop the upcp cron emails
How to fixed named.conf on cPanel
The named.conf file can become corrupted on occasion. It is rare, but it does happen. The fix is very simple. make a backup of your config with this command mv /etc/named.conf /etc/named.conf.bak Once you have created the backup, run this cPanel script to rebuild the config. /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/rebuilddnsconfig Then simply restart the named service. /etc/init.d/named …
Quick Tip: Delete all cPanel users .trash folder
The .trash folder in /home/$username/.trash contains any files that a user has deleted via their cpanel’s file manager. If your users are not clearing this out, it can start to eat up a lot of disk space on your server. If you want to empty every users .trash folder, simply run this command. find …
Increasing tmp partition size on cPanel Server
As your server grows or you have some rather large tasks, you might find the default size of your /tmp partition to be too small, which can result in various errors from your services, the most common 4 being cPanel, Apache, LiteSpeed and MySQL. For example: [ERROR] mysqld: Can’t create/write to file ‘/tmp/zbLxFquF’ (Errcode: 28 …
Gmail flagging all of your mail as spam
If all of the email you send to gmail (google) addresses are getting flagged as spam, but your server is clean, and not on any other blacklists, then something to check is if you have IPv6 enabled in Exim, but not in your SPF record. In a cPanel update, they added the following option to …
Installing Thrive Tracker gives this error “Unknown error (ajax)”
When installing thrive, and you get to the page where it creates the database tables, this error may come up. The reason this happens is if you have your apache timeout set too low and it takes Thrive longer to create the databases, then apache is willing to wait for. To correct this, you need …
How to fix 530 Login authentication failed in Pure-FTP on cPanel
As the error states, the issue is that the user can not authenticate properly. There are 2 common reasons to get this error when making a connection via FTP to a Pure-FTP server on cPanel. Using the wrong username and password Corrupted password database First, the most common reason, is user error. They enter …
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