cPanel has set an end of life date for Easy Apache 3.  After December 31, 2018, EA3 will no longer be available.  You should make the switch to Easy Apache 4 before that date. Check out cPanels notification on this here: Easy Apache 3 EOL For information on switching to Easy Apache 4, check out …

So you’re ready to make the switch from EA3 to EA4.  Well it’s typically a pretty painless upgrade.    Make sure that RPMUP is activated.  You can do this by following one of the following steps Open the /etc/cpupdate.conf file and set the RPMUP key’s value to daily. In WHM’s Update Preferences interface (Home >> Server Configuration …

If you need to whitelist an IP address in fail2ban, you can do so by following these simple steps. Edit /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf in your favorite text editor Search for the following section.  It should be near the top of the file: [DEFAULT] # “ignoreip” can be an IP address, a CIDR mask or a DNS host. …

When using SMTP mail from the WordPress mail plugin, and it fails with an error like this:   Connection: Failed to connect to server. Error number 2. “Error notice: stream_socket_client(): unable to connect to someserver.com:587 (Connection refused)   Try to make a telnet connection to the destimation server from the command line on the server …

In outlook, if you have customers getting the error message in the subject line, there are a couple of fixes.  Have your customers enable SSL in their email client Disable the requirement of SSL in the WHM The ideal solution would be to enable SSL or STARTTLS in their email client.  This will make it …

If you want your vistors to see either www or not in your address bar regardless of what url they typed in to reach your site, you can do so by using the following codes in your .htaccess file in your websites root directory.   Force WWW: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.domain.com$ [NC] …

We had a case today where a customers cron was not running, and when you look in /var/log/cron it didn’t even show that the task was even trying to run. When we run the task manually, as the user, it worked fine.  So we know the issue was not with the script.   Turns out, …

In a .htaccess file, add the following lines.   #BEGIN Disable ETag Header unset ETag FileETag None #END Disable ETag   Disabling ETag headers will help to speed up your site, as it will lower the amount of http requests sent to the server.  Once disabled, you should setup expires headers, which we have discussed …