Common Questions (Need more information on this topic?)

Below is a list of common questions specific to using WHM 11. Each set of questions is categorized for you to find what you need quickly. Each question is linked to a document for further information.

 

Accounts

 

How do I create a new hosting account for a user?

How do I list all accounts on my server?

How do I unsuspend an account on my server?

How do I terminate an account on my server?

How do I view accounts on my server that have exceed their disk space quota?

How do I modify the account suspension page?

How do I upgrade/downgrade an account?

How do I change the disk space allocated to an account on my server?

How do I modify an account such as domain name, theme, email, ftp, mailing lists, etc?

How do I move an account to another drive or partition?

How do I reactivate all inactive accounts on my server?

How do I setup a skeleton directory?

How do I suspend/unsuspend an account?

How do I terminate an account?

How do I unsuspend all accounts that have exceeded bandwidth limitations?

How do I modify multiple accounts at the same time?

How do I terminate (delete) multiple accounts at the same time?

 

Addons

 

How do I manage Addons on my server?

 

Addon Scripts

 

How do I install/uninstall and setup automatic updates for addon scripts?

How do I install/uninstall cPAddon scripts?

How do I show cPAddons for all users or a single user?

How do I uninstall all cPAddons that are no longer installed in WHM?

How do I upgrade cPAddons installed on WHM?

 

Alerts
 

How do I setup alerts and assign alerts to my communication clients (AIM, ICQ, Email, and Pager)?

 

Backups

 

How do I rollback to a particular version of the httpd.conf, named.conf, or proftpd.conf file?

How do I manage the backup settings for the accounts on my server?

How do I restore a monthly, weekly, or daily backup for a single account?

How do I restore a monthly, weekly, or daily backup for multiple accounts?

How do I restore a full back of everything?

How do I setup automated scripts that will update my cPanel and run backups on my server?

 

Bandwidth

 

How do I view bandwidth usage by all accounts on my server?

How do I limit the monthly bandwidth usage for a particular account on my server?

How do I reset the bandwidth for a particular package?

 

Basic Configuration Settings

 

How do I configure a basic cPanel/WHM setup?

 

Branding

 

How do I brand an available cPanel theme?

 

CGI Scripts

 

How do I fix permissions on CGI Scripts?

 

ClamAV

 

How do I configure ClamAV for a single user or a group of users?

 

Databases

 

How do I add access hosts for MySQL users to log on to MySQL databases on my server?

How do I change the password for a MySQL user or MySQL database?

How do I change the root password to MySQL on my server?

How do I install the Postgres config?

How do I change the Postgres password?

How do I repair a database and its tables of any errors or issues?
How do I reset the MySQL root password using the override function?

How do I setup the remote MySQL server?

How do I view a list of MySQL processes that are currently running on my server?

How do I access phpMyAdmin (What is phpMyAdmin)?

 

Demo Mode

 

How do I enable/disable demo mode on a particular account?

 

Disk Drives

 

How do I format and mount a hard drive?

How do I optimize the EIDE hard drives on my server?

How do I view the current disk space usage on my server?

 

DNS

 

How do I add a DNS Zone?

How do I add an A Entry to my Hostname?

How do I delete a DNS Zone?

How do I edit a DNS Zone?

How do I edit an MX Entry?

How do I edit Zone Templates?

How do I establish a Trust Relationship with a Primary Namserver?

How do I perform a DNS cleanup?

How do I synchronize DNS records?

How do I restart the DNS server (BIND)?

 

Domains

 

How do I view a list of parked domains on my server?

How do I view a list of subdomains on my server?

How do I view a list of suspended accounts on my server?

How do I park a domain?

How do I setup/edit domain forwarding?

 

Email

 

How do I send an email to all users on my server?

How do I delete all messages in the mail spool (Exim Mail Queue)?

How do I attempt to deliver all messages in the mail spool (Exim Mail Queue)?

How do I view all messages in the mail spool (Exim Mail Queue)?

How do I troubleshoot an email address on my server?
How do I repair mailbox permissions?

How do I view mail statistics on my server?

How do I view a list of users who are relaying mail on my server?

 

FrontPage

 

How do I install FrontPage Extensions?

How do I uninstall FrontPage Extensions?

How do I install FrontPage Mail Extensions?

 

IP Related

 

How do I change a site's IP address?

How do I change the IP addresses of multiple sites?

How do I add a new IP address?

How do I change the IP associated with a particular site?

How do I use the IP migration wizard?

How do I rebuild the IP address pool?

How do I view the IP address usage on my server?

How do I show or delete current IP addresses on my server?

How do I show or edit reserved IP addresses on my server?

 

Java Servlets/JavaServer Pages

 

How do I install servlets on an account?

 

Languages

 

How do I clone or create a new language?

How do I delete a language file?

How do I download a language file?

How do I edit a language file?

How do I upload a language file?

How do I set the language for web statistics programs such as Webalizer, Analog, and Awstats?

 

Log Files

 

How do I download the raw apache log file for a particular domain on my server?

How do I download the raw ftp log file for a particular domain on my server?

 

Mail Settings

 

How do I enter an email address where mail from user "root" can be delivered?

How do I enter an email address where mail from user "nobody" can be delivered?

How do I enter an email address where mail from user "cpanel" can be delivered?

 

Mailman

 

How do I change the password associated with a Mailman account?

 

Memory Usage

 

How do I modify Apache memory usage?

 

Nameserver

 

How do I setup/enable/disable the nameserver on my server?

 

Networking

 

How do I change or modify my server's hostname?

How do I assign IPs to my nameservers?

How do I setup my server's resolver configuration?

 

News

 

How do I update/modify cPanel/WHM News that is displayed on the dashboard of every cPanel user on my server?

 

Outlook

 

How do I enable/disable the Outlook (Express) AutoConfig option?

 

Packages

 

How do I create a base package with preset options and features?

How do I delete a base package with preset options and features?

How do I edit a base package with preset options and features?

How do I add a new feature list?

How do I edit a feature list?

How do I delete a feature list?

 

Passwords

 

How do I change the root password for my WHM system?

How do I change the password for a user's account on my server?

 

Plugins

 

How do I install/uninstall and setup automatic updates for plugins?

 

Remote Access

 

How do I setup a remote access key to my server?

 

Resellers

 

How do I view all my reseller accounts?

How do I add reseller accounts?

How do I remove reseller accounts?

How do I change reseller account ownership? (one)

How do I change reseller account ownership? (multiple)

How do I email all resellers?

How do I edit reseller privileges and nameservers?

How do I create an ACL list?

How do I view usage statistics and manage reseller accounts (suspend, terminate, etc.)?

How do I manage reseller Ip delegation?

How do I manage reseller main shared and Ip-less Ip?

 

Restarting Services

 

How do I restart the E-Commerce Interchange Server?
How do I restart the DNS Server (BIND)?

How do I restart the FTP Server (ProFTPd/PureFTPd)?
How do I restart the Apache HTTP Server?

How do I restart the IMAP Server?

How do I restart the Exim Mail Server?

How do I restart the POP3 Server?

How do I restart the MySQL Server?

How do I restart the PostgreSQL Server?

How do I restart the SSH Server (OpenSSH)?

 

Security

 

How do I run a quick security scan on my server?

How do I run a scan for possible Trojan Horses on my server?

 

Server Reboots

 

How do I perform a forceful server reboot?

How do I perform a graceful server reboot?

 

Server Status

 

How do I view the status of my web server (Apache)?

How do I view CPU/Memory/MySQL Processes usage statistics for users on my server?

How do I view information on my server's processor(s), memory, system, physical disks, and current memory/disk usage?

How do I view the status (up, failed, percentage) of my server's services?

 

Services

 

How do I change my Bandmin password?

How do I enable/disable SuExec?

How do I use the Exim Configuration Editor?

How do I switch between proftpd and pure-ftp servers?

How do I enable/disable anonymous ftp?

What is the service manager and how do I use it?

 

Shopping Cart

 

How do I reset a shopping cart associated with an account on my server?

 

Software

 

How do I check and repair a Perl script?

How do I install a Perl module?

How do I install an RPM?

How do I install modules for a specific programming language on my server?

How do I rebuild the RPM database?

How do I update the software on my server?

How do I update system related packages and Perl modules required by cPanel?

 

Spamd

 

How do I configure Spamd on my server?

 

SSH

 

How do I generate a new public/private key?

How do I import a public/private key?

How do I enable Shell access on a particular account?

 

SSL Certificates

 

How do I generate a SSL Certificate?

How do I generate a Signing Request?

How do I install a SSL Certificate and setup the Certificate Domain?

How do set an installed SSL Certificate to be a shared certificate?

How do I disable a shared certificate?

How do I delete an installed SSL Certificate?

How do I purchase and install a SSL Certificate from a recommended cPanel provider?

How do I download or view keys, signing requests, and certificates already created and/or installed on my server?

 

Statistics Software Configuration

 

How do I enable and configure statistics software programs on my server?

How do I allow users to be able to change their web statistics generating software?

 

System Health

 

How do I keep irc programs from running on my server?

How do I show the current CPU usage of my server and its associated processes?

How do I view the current running processes on my server?

 

Support

 

How do I user the interactive knowledge base?

How can I get more support for my WHM system?

How do I configure where support requests should be emailed/piped/disabled on my server?

 

Themes

 

How do I change my WHM theme?

How do I manage my cPanel themes?

How do I manage my Webmail themes?

How do I manage my WHM themes?

How do I migrate all "X" theme users to the new "X3" theme?

 

Time

 

How do I set my server's default timestamp?

 

Transfers

 

How do I transfer/copy an account from another server without a password?

How do I transfer/copy an account from another server with a password?

How do I transfer/copy multiple accounts/packages from another server?
How do I view a record or log of all accounts that have been copied to my server?

 

Upgrading cPanel/WHM

 

How do I set the upgrade preferences?

How do I upgrade my cPanel/WHM software?

 

User Access

 

How do I set root access for specified users?

 

Webserver

 

How do I update Apache?