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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 [...]

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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 our changes.  But [...]

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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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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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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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