Tag: WHM
In our Knowledge Base, you'll find thousands of how-to's articles. Our WHM section, we walk you through a variety of tasks with straightforward and easy to follow tutorials.
How to Check the Version of cPanel / WHM
Pre-Flight Check
- These instructions are intended specifically for checking your version of cPanel or WHM via the command line or the WHM dashboard.
- I’ll be working from a Liquid Web Managed CentOS 7 server, and I’ll be logged in as root.
Method #1: Checking the Version of cPanel / WHM by the ‘cpanel’ Command
Using the cPanel command:
How to Install WordPress in cPanel / WHM with Softaculous
WordPress is a very popular option for running a website or blog and can be used to get your content online quickly. This guide will walk you through installing the WordPress server software via cPanel / WHM and Softaculous. Liquid Web makes WordPress hosting easy and painless, for every level of customer, especially since all of our managed plans are backed by our 24/7/365 Support team!
II. How to Disable SSLv3 for Exim and Protect Your WHM/cPanel Server from POODLE
There’s a new POODLE in town, but unfortunately it’s not the kind of pooch you want around. POODLE stands for Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption. It’s an exploit that, although not considered to be as serious as Heartbleed, is one that should still be protected against. For more information read the Google Blog.
II. How to Disable SSLv3 for Exim and Protect Your WHM/cPanel Server from POODLE
There’s a new POODLE in town, but unfortunately it’s not the kind of pooch you want around. POODLE stands for Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption. It’s an exploit that, although not considered to be as serious as Heartbleed, is one that should still be protected against. For more information read the Google Blog.
If you run a cPanel server, and need to upgrade your Apache or PHP version, cPanel provides the Easyapache tool to make these updates a breeze. While it can be run from WHM, it is generally preferred to run it from the command line.
If you are used to administering Apache on a cPanel server, administering the faster Litespeed webserver is not that much different. Litespeed transparently takes over for Apache; any configuration changes that you would normally make in an Apache configuration file or .htaccess files is still made in those files. In fact, once Litespeed is installed you can administer your cPanel server like you normally would. The few changes you would want to make to Litespeed directly can be done through your server’s Web Host Manager (WHM).
How To: Create a cPanel Account in WHM
Running your first webserver can be daunting. Even if you are familiar with running a cPanel account, there is much to learn regarding Web Host Manager (WHM). The first step to successfully running WHM is creating a cPanel account.
As important as DNS is to web hosting, it is a good idea to make it redundant when possible. If you have two or more cPanel servers, you can use cPanel’s DNS clustering to lower the risk of a DNS failure on a nameserver taking down all of your sites. Here’s how to set that up:
Change a Domain Name in cPanel/WHM
Changing an existing domain name and the associated account on your server is a task that most users don’t think about until it becomes necessary. Thankfully the tools provided by cPanel make this relatively easy.
Installing Service SSLs in cPanel
So you are ready to banish the self-signed SSL certificate error from your control panel. How does one go about doing so? Although there are a number of steps, it is ultimately pretty simple.
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