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HowTo Install APC on CPanel/WHM

May 5th, 2011 · No Comments · cpanel, Installation

CPanel includes support in their installer for eaccelerator; still, for some strange reason they don’t include support for APC also. So, if you want to install APC on your CPanel powered server, you will have to go back at the command line and install it manually. Here are the steps needed to install the latest [...]

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Setup Subversion (SVN) and mod_dav_svn on Cpanel Server

October 18th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Centos, cpanel, Installation, svn

Quick install guide for SVN with mod_dav_svn (http/https) repository access on Cpanel server running CentOs5. Configure Cpanel for SVN Recompile Apache/PHP (WHM -> Software -> EasyApache) and enable support for the following: Dav (Among other things mod_dav can be used by DAV enabled Frontpage clients instead of FP extensions) BerkeleyDB. Note: BerkeleyDB support (“–with-berkeley-db“) is [...]

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Install ImageMagick and Imagick on Cpanel Server

May 12th, 2009 · 16 Comments · Centos, cpanel, Installation

Here’s a quick how-to for installing ImageMagick and Imagick on Cpanel server. I will cover only the procedure using the Cpanel built-in scripts, although you can also install it the usual way (rpm or source install). ImageMagick is the application for working with images while the Imagick is a PHP extention to modify/create images using [...]

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Cpanel: Adding custom configuration to httpd.conf

November 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment · cpanel, Installation

Recently, Cpanel implemented their standard way of adding custom changes to virtualhost configuration to preserve custom changes after an upgrade or Apache rebuild. Here are the two common situations of adding custom changes: 1.)  Changes added inside a <VirtualHost> This is very simple as we only need to create a single file that will contain [...]

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Server and backup woes

November 17th, 2008 · No Comments · cpanel, Down Time, hosting, monitoring, MySQL, sysadmin

Looking back it seems like most posts on this blog are helpful tips and not reports of problems we encountered. Not that we don’t have any problems but we mostly report our solutions instead of the actual problems. Of course now and again a problem comes along that doesn’t have a solution ready to copy-paste [...]

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Tomcat failure after Apache rebuild in CPanel

August 25th, 2008 · No Comments · cpanel

After rebuilding Apache in CPanel using easyapache or WHM there are many things that can go wrong even if you use a stable branch of CPanel. For example Tomcat that was installed from CPanel can fail after the build and even if this might look unrelated to the apache build this can happen quite frequently.

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Account list missing from WHM

July 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments · hosting

Issue: Hosting account do not show up in WHM Cause: /etc/trueuserdomains file which holds a list of account on the server is empty Solution: restore contents of /etc/trueuserdomains and update cpanel with /scripts/upcp linuxsysadminblog.com: linsysad

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