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cPanel and WHM Plugins / Addons

tech — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 04:40:41 +0000

I thought I’d put together a quick post with links to various cPanel & WHM plugins. I haven’t used all of these, so don’t consider this an endorsement of any kind. For now, check out the cPanel forums apps and plugins area which in you might find better reviews.

Eventually I’ll post a review of these (at least the free ones) as time allows.

Free WHM Plugins

ConfigServer.com Firewall – manages iptables, handles brute force attacks, and much more. This is one that I’ve used, and definitely recommend.
ConfigServer.com ModSec Control – modify ModSecurity rules on a global or per-user basis, and view logs.
NDCHost’s Clean Backups – clean backups for accounts which don’t exist after a certain period, automated, or on a manual basis.
NDCHost’s Account DNS Check – Checks and reports domains which don’t resolve to the assigned IPs in http.conf.
ConfigServer.com Explorer – provides a “File Manager-like” interface allowing you access to your filesystem via GUI.
ConfigServer.com Mail Queues – Stats and management of your server’s mail queue.
ConfigServer.com Mail Manage – Management of your email accounts, important statistics, and displays of accounts over quota, over a certain size, etc.

Pay WHM Plugins

ConfigServer.com’s eXploit Scanner – active scanning of your server to prevent exploits.
NDCHost’s Secondary MX – Turns a cPanel DNSonly install into a backup MX server.

Free cPanel Plugins

cPanel’s cPAddons – Allows installation of several popular PHP scripts. Installed via WHM >> Install cPAddons.

Pay cPanel Plugins

Netenberg’s Fantastico – Installs over 50 popular PHP scripts [List]. The vast majority are free, open-source software, though a few require a license.
Softaculous – over 130 PHP scripts.

Locked out via iptables? Autofix it!

tech — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 04:11:32 +0000

If you’ve locked yourself out of your server via iptables, or made some incorrect updates to your sshd_config, but you can login via WHM, autofixer is about to be your best friend. If you can’t get into WHM, this is not going to be something you can utilize.

https://yourdomain.com:2087/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=iptablesflush

This script will do a flush of your iptables chains, allowing you to login and correct your configuration.

https://yourdomain.com:2087/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=safesshrestart

This will terminate your existing sshd daemon, and start SSH on port 22, or, if that’s your normal default port, it will start sshd on port 23, so you can login and make your corrections.

Other autofixer scripts are listed at http://httpupdate.cpanel.net/autofixer/ and can be run by inserting them after the following URL, after logging into WHM:

https://yourdomain.com:2087/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=

cPanel Community Support

tech — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:32:19 +0000

There are a few avenues of support outside of cPanel Technical Support, where you can ask other cPanel Administrators for support:

1. Forums – http://forums.cpanel.net

2. IRC – On EFNET, join #cpanel