Add R1Soft to Paper Lantern

cPanel was released just a few days ago, which includes a major upgrade to the Paper Lantern theme, but since the theme is working differently I’m going to explain how to add r1soft to Paper Lantern. Since Paper Lantern was introduced, the way of installing plugins work a little differently, you need to create your … Continued

NGINX restarts on cPanel servers

Today we’ll fix NGINX restarts on cPanel servers. When running NGINX on a cPanel server, it often requires that you put a restart of NGINX inside your httpd init script to make NGINX and Apache restart at same time to get the changes updated. The problem people often will find is that cPanel from time … Continued

Fix Nginx bandwidth issue in cPanel

At Hosting4Real we’ve been using Nginx in production as a reverse proxy for quite some time. But using Nginx doesn’t come without problems, one of them is bandwidth calculation. So this blog post will go over how to fix Nginx bandwidth issue in cPanel. You’ll actually be facing multiple problems, about bandwidth reporting, this is due … Continued

Using imapsync

I’ve recently needed to do a big migration of some webshops, including a lot of email accounts from a non-cPanel server to a cPanel server, this means you’re quite limited with the migration, and in this case very limited. There was no possible way to do a backup, so everything needed to be migrated using … Continued

New Relic and CloudLinux

To use New Relic and CloudLinux (with CageFS) together, you have to do some changes to your configuration. This post assumes that you use EasyApache 4.   Some time ago I wrote a blog post “Auto deploy New Relic apps in cPanel“, which covers steps how to make each account in cPanel their own application … Continued

Stop brute force attacks on WordPress installations

Today I want to tell how to stop brute force attacks on WordPress installations, the reason is that we’re having a huge botnet, trying to gain access to WordPress installations. The size of the botnet is measured to be more than 100.000 unique IP’s and is probably already way bigger than in the beginning. The … Continued

cpanel 11.38 virtfs

People that use cpanel, as their control panel of their servers, probably know about virtfs. In cpanel 11.38 virtfs got changed to improve security, and some other small changes. For those who don’t know what virtfs is: VirtFS provides a jailed shell environment for the user, the good thing about this, is that the user … Continued

Nginx support for cpanel awstats

When using cpanel as a control panel for shared hosting, you’re by default forced to use Apache. The reason behind this is that it’s the most common webserver, but Apache is often using a lot of memory when you could lower this. A good choice is to put nginx in front. There’s multiple options for … Continued

Make a single access log on cPanel servers

Sometimes it might be useful to make a single access log on cPanel servers, if you need to either investigate a problem, or you just need to get some general information from all sites hosted on a specific server, it could be the number of requests to wp-cron.php etc. In cPanel all log files is … Continued

Add an invoice to existing product in WHMCS

Today I was looking for a way to add an invoice to existing product in WHMCS, because I had a few people that was imported using the cpanel/WHM importer in WHMCS. I was searching a little on google, and I found the methods really weird, like deleting the client, manually adding the client again, set … Continued