Just a quick note on FTP access in CPanel and post server transfer problems. If you have moved over from a BSD system, or other to say, Red Hat Linux, RHEL or Centos, then you may find that account holders will have problems logging in via FTP.
This won’t affect the main account FTP, but f [...]
Woke up this morning to find an inbox full of error emails, a queue full of emails pending and a server with a very well broken system install that was stopping CPanel & WHM from working properly. Errors that appeared when trying to load pages in WHM included:
/bin/sh: line 1: 8621 Segmentation fault /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/bin/dnsqueue > [...]
I have recently been upgrading one of my web servers from a 2ghz dual core to a 3ghz quad core and had the pleasure of doing so via WHM and CPanel, which, as always, minimized the hassle. Despite this though, I did of course encounter some issues. The real problems revolved around the transition of [...]
Having recently been asked to do a mail out for the best part of 11,000 emails, I thought that I would take a moment to do a write up and explain what I think are some of the important points and considerations in maintaining and operating large emailing lists. These are of course, legitimate, opt-in [...]
The sweet and short answer to your question is no, but of course the reality is more of a grey area. To lengthen the answer a little, there is no easy and sure fire way to find out the origin of a gmail sent email, but there are some means, and of course always the [...]
Recently, a client encountered problems when trying to send out and receive emails from the default email account in CPanel. That is to say that they were trying to send out email from an email account that happened to match the username for that account. The only problem was that when the remote smtp server [...]
When setting up your email for Talk Talk Broadband you need to establish it as a POP3 account in your email client, be it Apple Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird or whatever else. The rest of the details are as follows:
Talk Talk Email Settings
E-mail address: username@talktalk.net
Reply-to address: username@talktalk.net
Incoming mail Sever: mail.talktalk.net
Incoming mail account type: POP3
Incoming mail [...]
The purpose of this article is to give you a quick fire introduction to the world of shell scripting. It is by no stretch of the imagination a complete guide to the technique of shell scripting but It will give you the basis of a script for backing up your web files and mysql databases, [...]
If your mail server goes down, what happens to your emails? In this article, I run through the scenario and talk about the solutions, or the non-solutions, that you might like to consider in terms of safeguarding the loss of any of your clients's emails, as well as the how-to of implementing them.
What Does Happen [...]
If you are getting a lot of SPAM sprayback, bounced emails and the like for your domain, you might like to consider the creation of SPF records to help inform receiving mail servers about what are and what aren't valid mail relays for your domain.
SPF records create a "Sender Policy Framework" in your domain zone [...]
In this article we will be using Outlook 2003 as an example, but all versions of Outlook operate pretty much the same way, with the same looking screens. In the article we also assume that you have already set up the required email account under the "Mail" section of CPanel. If you don't have an [...]
One of the first things that any visitors considers doing when they hit your web site is to search. This is all and well if you are running an PHP/MySQL driven web app like OScommerce or Expression Engine, but what if your site runs on static pages like this one? You can't always rely on [...]
301 Redirects are a big part of SEO and making sure that (A) the search engine bots find your content correctly, and (B) understand that the old page or domain is the same as the new one and thus combine the overall rank statistics to the one location. In essence the 301 redirect simply [...]
When you are stuck behind a corporate firewall, it can seem like the end of the world. hwoever, if you can SSH out, then all is not lost. Using port foorarding and SSH tunnels you can acheive pretty much anything you need. In this article we run through how to set up and use SSH [...]
Over the last 12 months I have found that one single SSL-based host on my CPanel / WHM server occasionally drops back and starts generating "[hostname] has sent incorrect or unexpected message. Error Code: -12263" alerts when trying to load a secure page in a browser, in this case FireFox.
A quick search of Google and [...]
If you run any number of servers and have to login many times a day it can quickly become tiresome if you dont't want to have to type in your password every time and you don't want to store this anywhere in the finder or the keychain utility of OSX.
Create Your Public Key & Publishing [...]