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Overview The AutoConfigure (AutoConfig) and Autodiscover services quickly and easily configure a...
Back Up CPanel Account to Google DriveOverview This document explains how to set up your Google Drive™ account with backups. Set up...
Best Practices for cPanel Virtualization TemplatesOverview We recommend and support the use of the cPanel installer to install and provision...
Configure or Disable PHP-FPM with User Pools for EasyApache 4Overview Important: The information in this document only pertains to cPanel & WHM...
Getting Started with Linux CommandsOverview While cPanel & WHM automates many server administration tasks, familiarity with the...
Guide to DNS Cluster Configurationsverview A DNS cluster is a group of nameservers that share records with eachother. This allows...
How To Clear Your DNS CacheOverview Your DNS cache stores the locations (IP addresses) of web servers that contain web...
How To Determine a Browser LocaleOverview In cPanel & WHM version 11.32, we introduced a localized login page that allows...
How Your Server Handles Domains and Virtual HostsOverview This document explains virtual hosts and how cPanel & WHM handles them. An...
How to Access the Command LineOverview While cPanel & WHM automates many server administration tasks, familiarity with the...
How to Build and Install Custom RPMsOverview cPanel, Inc. ships many of cPanel & WHM's third-party dependencies as RPMs. In...
How to Clean Unmanaged Log FilesOverview This guide provides the steps to reduce the file size of the log files on your server...
How to Configure Mail FiltersOverview Email filters use the criteria that you specify to determine how to handle email...
How to Configure Reverse DNS for BIND in WHMOverview Reverse DNS uses pointer records (PTR) to convert IP addresses to domain names. Forward...
How to Configure Your Firewall for cPanel ServicesOverview cPanel & WHM installs and manages many different services on your system, most of...
How to Configure Your SFTP ClientOverview Because File Transfer Protocol (FTP) cannot guarantee security, many users prefer to...
How to Configure the Apache SpamAssassin Report_Safe OptionOverview The Apache SpamAssassin™ Report_Safe option allows you to modify how Apache...
How to Configure the Exim Outgoing IP AddressOverview By default, Exim sends mail from the server's primary IPv4 address. To decrease the...
How to Convert mbox Accounts to MaildirOverview You can use the /scripts/convert2maildir script to perform conversions on mail storage...
How to Create Custom Jailed Shell MountsOverview When you create a custom jailed shell mount, you can allow users of jailed shells to...
How to Create Mail Filter Rules For Mailing ListsOverview This document explains how to create mail filter rules in cPanel's Mailing Lists...
How to Create a Custom Transport Script for BackupsOverview Warning: We strongly recommend that only advanced users create custom backup...
How to Create a Demo cPanel AccountOverview This document explains how to create and delete a demo account. These accounts allow...
How to Create a Spam Email FilterOverview You can create an email filter that sorts and redirects incoming spam. This is useful...
How to Create a WHM Reseller Without An Associated DomainOverview You can create additional administrative user accounts in WHM that do not correspond to...
How to Customize the Exim System Filter FileOverview Warning: The steps in this document are for advanced users only. The Exim...
How to Disable Network ManagerOverview This document describes how to disable the Network Manager service. The Network Manager...
How to Disable PrelinkingOverview This document explains how to disable prelinking. Prelinking often causes issues, and...
How to Disable the cPanel Store as an SSL Certificate Provider in WHMOverview This article provides instructions on how to use Manage2's Update Company Information...
How to Edit the exim.conf FileOverview This document describes the final adjustments to change the IP address that Exim uses...
How to Enable FTP Passive ModeOverview This document explains how to use either the active or passive mode to connect to...
How to Exclude Files From BackupsOverview To exclude files or directories from your user backups, perform either of the following...
How to Fix QuotasOverview Warnings: Servers that use the XFS® filesystem and run CentOS 7, CloudLinux™...
How to Keep your Email Out of the Spam FolderOverview This article contains helpful information to make sure that other servers or network do...
How to List Domains with DNSSECOverview This document describes how to list domains with DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) on a...
How to Log in to the Sent and Spam Mail Folders DirectlyOverview This document describes how to directly log in to your sent or spam mail folder in one...
How to Manage your Hard Drive SpaceOverview This document provides steps to help you to manage your server's hard drive space....
How to Manually Transfer an Account Between ServersOverview When accounts are too large to move with the WHM Transfers features, you can move the...
How to Modify your hosts FileOverview WHM's Apache mod_userdir Tweak interface (WHM >> Home >> Security Center...
How to Prevent Email AbuseOverview This document outlines some of the best practices that you can follow to avoid email...
How to Prevent Spam with Mail Limiting FeaturesOverview The Mail section of WHM's Tweak Settings interface (WHM >> Home >> Server...
How to Rebuild the Roundcube DatabaseOverview If your Roundcube database fails to restart or becomes corrupt, you can rebuild the...
How to Rebuild userdata FilesOverview Warning: Do not perform the steps in this document unless you are certain that...
How to Reset SSL Certificates for cPanel ServicesOverview This article explains why you received an email notification to reset your SSL...
How to Restart ServicesOverview This document describes several methods to restart the services (often daemons) on your...
How to Restore Missing FTP Interfaces in cPanelOverview Warning: This document describes an unsupported workaround. We do not guarantee...
How to Rotate a DNSSEC KeyOverview This document describes how to rotate a domain's DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) keys...
How to Run the traceroute and ping CommandsOverview This document describes how to run the traceroute and ping utilities on different...
How to Set Email Send Limitsverview WHM allows you to specify the maximum number of emails that each domain on your server...
How to Set Up Nameservers in a cPanel EnvironmentOverview When you log in to WHM for the first time after the initial installation process, the...
How to Set Up a cPanel Email Account for iOS and AndroidOverview Warning: cPanel support does not provide assistance with the instructions in this...
How to Set or Unset RPM ManagementOverview If you do not want cPanel & WHM's rpm.versions system to manage an RPM, you can set...
How to Troubleshoot High Disk IO ProblemsOverview Disk I/O describes how long the read and write operations require on a hard disk. The...
How to Troubleshoot Horde Data Conversion from MySQL to SQLiteOverview This document describes the resolutions for the two most common issues with the Horde...
How to Update Your SystemOverview This document describes the steps to update your system. Update your system...
How to Use MyDNS-NGOverview MyDNS-NG (MyDNS) is DNS server software for Linux servers. It uses a database to store...
How to Use cPanel's PowerDNSOverview The PowerDNS open source DNS server software offers high performance with very low...
IMAP vs. POP3Overview IMAP and POP3 are different in how and for how long they store mail on the mail server....
Interface Lock ScriptsOverview In cPanel & WHM version 11.52, we added scripts to manage the Interface Lock...
Keyboard Shortcuts in WHMOverview We include keyboard shortcuts within the WHM interface to allow for quicker navigation....
Metadata for BackupsOverview Every time cPanel & WHM creates a backup, it also generates a backup metadata file...
OversellingOverview This document explains the concept of overselling. Overselling means that the system...
Passive FTP and NAT Configuration Temporary WorkaroundOverview cPanel & WHM's implementation of PureFTP and ProFTPd causes an issue on...
ProFTPD Configuration for Host Access ControlOverview ProFTPd© does not automatically reference /etc/hosts.allow or /etc/hosts.deny to...
Problems When You Log Out Of An AccountOverview If you experience difficulty when you attempt to switch between cPanel accounts, or...
Proxy Subdomains ExplanationOverview This document provides an overview of proxy subdomains. In cPanel & WHM version...
Proxy Subdomains Use the cPanel Service SSLOverview In cPanel & WHM version 11.40 and earlier, visitors who accessed a website via...
RPM Installation FailuresOverview This document provides examples of common RPM installation failures. You can use these...
Scan Outgoing MailOverview You can use the Advanced Editor section of WHM's Exim Configuration Manager interface...
Subaccount Initial Password GuideOverview This document explains a Subaccount user's experience when you request that they set...
TailWatchOverview The TailWatch driver monitors a log file for certain activities and then takes action...
The BlackBerry FastMail ServiceOverview Important: This service is only available in cPanel's deprecated x3 theme. The...
The Removal of cgiemail and cgiechoOverview Recently-discovered flaws in the cgiemail and cgiecho scripts have caused cPanel, Inc....
The cPanel Log FilesOverview This document describes the location of all of the log files in cPanel & WHM,...
The checkallsslcerts ScriptOverview In the past, cPanel & WHM services used a self-signed certificate. Now all cPanel...
The horde_mysqltosqlite ScriptOverview Warning: Unless your system experiences an error with the Horde data conversion...
What Happens When You Suspend an AccountOverview This document describes the actions that the system performs when you suspend an...
cPanel Deprecation PlanOverview To improve our ability to support our customers and provide the best possible...
How to Access cPanel & WHM ServicesHow to access cPanel Note: Your domain's DNS information must propagate before...