Category Archives: Security
How to block certain countries from accessing your server with CSF
Sometimes you may get targeted by fraudsters or hackers from a specific country. If you do not expect to ever have legitimate business, or website visitors in those countries, you can block them all together using CSF (ConfigServe Firewall Download here) To do this, once you have CSF installed on your cpanel server, login …
How to calculate linux permissions
Have you ever wondered why permissions in linux are typically listed as a 3 or 4 digit number? Here’s why. There are 4 groups of permissions. Special, User, Group, and Other. Special Three special types of permissions are available for executable files and public directories. When these permissions are set, any user who runs that …
cPanel/WHM logs and locations
Many times you will run across an issue and are unsure what is happening/happened. cPanel has many logs available to the user, but it’s finding the location of these logs that is important. In this post, we will be talking about cPanel logs, and what is in the logs. You can always use the grep …
How to enable Passive FTP mode on cPanel
If passive mode is not enabled on your FTP server, then a customer who’s trying to use passive mode will timeout when trying to get a directory listing. To enable passive mode on your ftp server on a cPanel server, do the following: Pure-FTP SSH to the server as root (or another user, then su …
How to enable Passive FTP mode on Plesk in Linux
If passive mode is not enabled on your FTP server, then a customer who’s trying to use passive mode will timeout when trying to get a directory listing. To enable passive mode on your ftp server in the Linux flavor of Plesk, do the following. SSH to the server as root Edit the proftpd.conf file. …
Reset Plesk permissions for a windows account
Let’s face it, we’ve all had that customer that adjusts permissions on folders until the point it just will not work any further. Resetting permissions on a windows Plesk server is pretty easy to fix. Here’s how. First, you need to make a remote connection to the server via RDP, VNC, TeamViewer, or however …
Deciphering CSF blocked messages on a cPanel server
Often a client will get their IP address blocked on CSF (http://configserver.com/cp/csf.html). The blocked messages will tell you why it was blocked, however it’s usually quite vague stating it was blocked for failed passwords to the POP3 server. What it doesn’t tell you however is which account caused the block. Here is my cheat sheet …
Find outdated versions of WordPress on your Cpanel or Plesk server
In my opinion, one of the most vulnerable software packages out there has to be wordpress. Not a day goes by that I don’t come across a hacked wordpress site. More often then not, the reason the site was hacked is the client did not keep their wordpress updated. Hacked wordpress sites will not only …
How to get a listing of all Joomla installs on your server, and their versions.
This how to applies to Linux based, cPanel, and Plesk servers. If you are looking to find out who on your server is running old insecure versions of Joomla, then the following commands will help to track them down. This will scan through all your users home directories, find out who has Joomla installed, and …
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