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Bash script to generate cPanel user files...

Don’t have your domains listed in WHM/cPanel. The cPanel takes information from cPanel user files under /var/cpanel/users/. The accounts won’t be listed in WHM if corresponding files are missing. This script will help you to generate cPanel user files. This script may fail if you have cPanel user files existing under /var/cpanel/users/. So I would request you to backup users directory and then remove all user...
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Plesk restore: Restore domains from old hard drive...

The operating system must be reloaded onto a separate disk, which will become the primary, and old disk can be mounted as a different mount point like /restore. Plesk actually has a nice migration tool (PleskX.pl), and as such, a disk to disk-based migration is easy to accomplish. The following steps can be used: 1. Mount the old drive, for example to the /restore directory. If there are several partitions on the old...
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Additional nameservers in cPanel....

You can see an option in WHM to add additional nameservers. You can give only the nameserver name, but not the IP. Most of the time it will be taking some wrong IPs by its own. To overcome this problem, you will have to edit “/etc/nameserverips” file from backend. /etc/nameserverips should look like this: 192.168.1.100=0 192.168.1.101=ns1.your-dns.com 192.168.1.102=ns2.your-dns.com 192.168.1.103=ns3.your-dns.com 192.168.1.104=0 If...
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How to reset cPanel account password...

You can use server’s root password to login to any cPanel account. In order to reset cPanel password for a website, you should know present password for it. But, of course you can change the password from WHM control panel. Here are the steps to do it. 1. Login to WHM. http://<server ip address>:2086/ username: root password: <root password of the server> 2. Home –> Account Information –>...
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Webmail is not working for my domain. http://webma...

It’s because webmail support is not enabled in the mail preference. Go through “Domains–>domain.com–>Mail–>Preference” and enable webmail for the domain. It should fix the issue.
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FTP not working….. Connection closed by fore...

My FTP service is not working. When I try telneting to ftp port, it gets closed by foreign host soon after connecting. -bash-3.1# telnet localhost 21 Trying 127.0.0.1… Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1). Escape character is ‘^]’. Connection closed by foreign host. -bash-3.1# Solution *********** The server is having Plesk control panel installed. So, ftp service is proftp which is started with xinetd....
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How to reset MySQL root password using Ensim Contr...

Follow the steps below if you want to reset MySQL root password using Ensim. 1. Login to Ensim control panel as administrator. 2. Click on MySQL (under WebServer category) –> Change MySQL password. 3. Enter new password under “Change MySQL root Password” Try logging into MySQL after changing the password. If you are uanble to login using the new password, please check the box “Force Password...
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Problems logging into Plesk because of IP restrict...

Problem: While logging into Plesk control panel, you may get the followin error: “Access for administrator from address xx.xx.xx.xx is restricted in accordance with IP Access restriction policy currently applied.” Resolution: This means Plesk IP access policy was configured in such a way that Plesk cannot be accessed from the current IP. To enable Plesk CP access one needs to login to Plesk Control Panel...
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cPanel – Invalid License File Error...

If when trying to access the cPanel it gives the Invalid License File error message, do the following: Changing your servers hostname will invalidate your cPanel license. You can solve this issue with following command. # /usr/local/cpanel/cpkeyclt Updating Internal cPanel Information.....Done # ~mohammed
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cPanel: Upgrade perl module to 5.8.8...

To upgrade your cPanel perl module to version 5.8.8, do the following: 1. root]# wget http://layer1.cpanel.net/perl588installer.tar.gz 2. root]# tar -zxf perl588installer.tar.gz 3. root]# cd perl588installer 4. root]# ./install
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