Monthly Archives: June 2011

This guide is related to my earlier guide that shows you how to install Perl on cPanel servers. First check if you need an update. Run the following command and it will show you which version of perl you have … Continue reading →

So you found yourself on a newly provisioned server, but perl doesn’t seem to work. Maybe cPanel scripts are all breaking and giving you perl errors. What do you do? Install perl of course! But on cPanel we DO NOT … Continue reading →

If Awstats does not seem to be working correctly and there are no errors in the /usr/local/cpanel/logs/stats_log log file and there are no errors from running /scripts/runweblogs you can debug things further by running Awstats manually. To do so will … Continue reading →

When SquirrelMail breaks you may get errors like these when logging in. You will find that Horde is probably broken as well: Try this script: Your problems should go away!

If Horde is not able to connect to the MySQL database ‘horde‘ it may give an error about SQL and the sessions table. To fix this you can try running the script /sripts/fullhordereset but it may also fail. If that … Continue reading →

To disable the catchall address for a particular user/domain you just need to edit one file! So if you ever need to do this en mass you can easily script it. You can edit /etc/valiases/ and change the line that … Continue reading →

This is super simple. You can add domains that are hosted on the server to /etc/rblbypass. This will bypass all RBL filtering for those domains. You can also add the remote IP of a host that is being rejected to … Continue reading →

cPanel is generally very stable, but if you find that the relay daemon has failed there is an easy fix. From the server make sure you kill all running antirelayd processes. Now run: You should now cat the /etc/relayhosts file … Continue reading →

If you are receiving the following error on your cPanel server: 550 Relaying Prohibited by Administrator Run the following cPanel script to fix this issue: