September 7, 2026
Was getting below error on cpanel server even when cpanel license was assigned for main server IP address root@server4 [/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts]# /usr/local/cpanel/cpkeyclt Updating cPanel license…Done. Update Failed! Error message: The cPanel license server said that there was no license for your IP address. For more information visit: http://www.cpanel.net/lic.html The exact message was: Abort, Retry, Fail? […]
Read MoreLogin to server via SSH Below steps are for Centos 7 yum -y install epel-release rpm –import http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/RPM-GPG-KEY-nux.ro rpm -Uvh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release0-5.el7.nux.noarch.rpm yum -y install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel Below steps are for Centos 6 yum -y install epel-release rpm –import http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/RPM-GPG-KEY-nux.ro wget https://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el6/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-1.el6.nux.noarch.rpm rpm ivh nux-dextop-release-0-1.el6.nux.noarch.rpm yum -y install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel now we need to […]
Read MoreWhile trying to change main IP of server was facing issue Where was getting message IPAddress is already an active IP On checking around found the below solution which worked Make sure that the IP address you’re trying to add has been removed from these files: /etc/hosts /etc/ips /etc/mail_reverse_dns If you happen to also […]
Read MoreYou can easily disable all WordPress plugins directly from your database. This is useful when you have problems with your WordPress installation, such as not being able to log in to the admin Dashboard, or having blank pages on the website. If you don’t know which is the database used by your WordPress website, you […]
Read MoreWhile trying to access softacalous from WHM > Plugins > I was just getting White Screen The tried disabling and enabling ioncube loader from WHM > Tweak Settings, However the issue persisted So I went ahead and reinstalled using below steps the Softaculous folder here: root@server1 [/usr/local/cpanel]# rm -rf /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/softaculous root@server1 [/usr/local/cpanel]# wget -N […]
Read MoreWe had a issue where domain which is using cloudflare and server had engintron those domains were not working correctly Engintron does support Cloudflare . There are few custom rules which needs to be setup from WHM > Plugin > Emgintron > Edit your custom_rules for Nginx For domains which have dedicated IP below is […]
Read MoreWas getting the error for squirrel mail on cpanel server On Investigating could see issue was in Dovecot Below is the fix I used It’s possible that this can be rectified by increasing “Maximum Size of a Mail Process (MB)” under Main >> Service Configuration >> Mailserver Configuration in WHM. Once I did it the […]
Read MoreWe had been working on adding an IDN addon domain in cPanel and received invalid domain name. Internationalized domain name – Wikipedia An internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet domain name that contains at least one label that is displayed in software applications, in whole or in part, in a language-specific script or alphabet […]
Read MoreTo add international characters as domain name in cpanel First it need to be converted to unicode to punycode using http://idna-converter.com/ Once done the domain name can be added accordingly
Read MoreWhile trying to upgrade cpanel to new version was getting error FATAL: Failed to download updatenow.static from server: The issue was due to corrupt RPM I used the below fix to resolve this issue mkdir /root/old_rpm_dbs/ Now move the original RPMs to the new folder mv /var/lib/rpm/__db* /root/old_rpm_dbs/ Finally rebuild the RPM database rpm --rebuilddb Now […]
Read MoreNormal rule in .htaccess to parse html files as php on easyapache 3 are not working on easyapache 4 #AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html #<FilesMatch “\.(htm|html|php)$”> #SetHandler application/x-httpd-php56 #</FilesMatch> Below is the code which will need to be added In cpanel, multiphp manager will add the following for force a specific version of […]
Read MoreWhile working with one client I was getting below error in DNS DNS error bad owner name (check-names) /tmp/cpanel So I went ahead and checked DNS zone file using below command root@vps [/var/named]# named-checkzone onlinecsource.com /var/named/onlinesource.com.db /var/named/onlinesource.com.db:56: _autodiscover._tcp.cheapsalesleads.onlinesource.com: bad owner name (check-names) /var/named/onlinesource.com.db:57: _autodiscover._tcp.cheapsalesleads.onlinesource.com: bad owner name (check-names) zone onlinesource.com/IN: loaded serial 2017030209 OK […]
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