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How to enable SuPHP ?
Issue : How to enable SuPHP ? Solution : Login to WHM. Go to “Service Configuration >> Apache Configuration >> Configure PHP and Suexec” and check if SuPHP is available in the drop down menu. If it is available then select it and save the configuration after a dry run. SuExec should also be available [...]
Security concerns in executing binary files
Issue : An application requires execution of a binary file. A separate account has been created but do not want to turn on the exec() function citing security concerns. What is the best way to go about this ? Solution : If it is a php suexec server then you can place a custom php.ini [...]
Compiling PHP5 with IMAP support on a LiteSpeed server
Tutorial on how-to compile php5 with imap support on a litespeed server Step 1 : Install imap Here are the required steps : root@server []#cd /usr/src root@server []#wget ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/imap.tar.gz root@server []#tar -xzvf imap.tar.gz root@server []#cd imap-2007e root@server []#make lfd root@server []#mkdir /usr/local/imap root@server []#cp -prf c-client/ /usr/local/imap Step 2 : Recompile php with the options [...]
Upload failed despite having custom php.ini
Issue : A 5 MB file cannot be uploaded via cPanel’s File Manager even though there is a custom php.ini in place with upload_max_filesize and post_max_size set to 10 MB. Solution : To alter the maximum file size for files uploaded via cPanel’s File Manager, you must use the following Tweak Setting in WHM: WHM [...]
PHP 5.2.11 released !
The PHP development team has announced the release of PHP 5.2.11. This release comes with over 60 bug fixes . Some of these were security related as well. This release is intended to increase the stability of PHP 5.2.x. Official release notes are available here .
Enabling the PHP extension–FreeType
Issue : How to enable the PHP extension–FreeType on a server running cPanel/WHM and apache? Solution : You need to re-compile apache and php with freetype . This can be done via the command line or through WHM. Command line : Run /scripts/easyapache and select “ttf” for freetype. WHM: You can enable freetype via WHM [...]
Permission issues with suphp+suexec
Issue : When migrating from a server NOT running suphp & suexec to a server running these, permission issues occur . For example, directories which are chmoded to 777 would not be compatible. Solution : You can use the following commands to change the permissions : find /home/*/public_html -type d -perm 0777 -exec chmod 755 [...]
Cannot upload unless permissions are set to 777
Issue : WordPress installed on a cPanel server. Cannot upload images using WP unless the “uploads” directory is set to “777″ which poses serious security threats. Solution : The reason is that WordPress is running PHP as a DSO (Apache Module) which insecurely runs all scripts commonly under the global username “nobody”. Since your WordPress [...]
500 error when using php_value/php_flag
Issue : When trying to turn ‘register_globals’ ON by adding a statement “php_flag register_globals on ” in the .htaccess, following error appears on the website: “A 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request” Apache error log says: .htaccess: Invalid command ‘php_flag’, perhaps mis-spelled or defined [...]
Logging in to PHPMyAdmin directly
Issue : How to login to PHPMyAdmin directly (without logging in to the cPanel interface) ? Solution : This can be achieved by the following steps : First, download and untar the latest version in to your public_html folder. wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/phpmyadmin/phpMyAdmin/2.11.9.5/phpMyAdmin-2.11.9.5-english.tar.gz tar -zxvf phpMyAdmin-2.11.9.5-english.tar.gz cd phpMyAdmin-2.11.9.5-english mv phpMyAdmin-2.11.9.5-english phpMyAdmin Then, create a file named config.inc.php [...]
Using multiple PHP versions
Issue : How to install multiple versions of PHP and make one of them default? Also, how can the users choose the desired version? Solution : Installing and configuring concurrent PHP can be done by going to WHM -> Software -> EasyApache and when prompted for which version of PHP to run, select both PHP [...]
Disabling PHP shell functions
Issue : All PHP shell functions need to be stopped. Solution : 1. Locate the php.ini file php -i | grep php.ini 2. Open it with your favorite editor and put the following : disable_functions = ” “ Or add functions that you want to disable.
Preserving httpd.conf during EasyApache
Issue : The apache configuration file (httpd.conf) has several custom entries which should not be over-written when an EasyApache is done for recompiling/adding a PHP/Apache extension. Solution : Starting with cPanel 11.x, all the apache settings are also stored in a database and the configuration files are recreated each time an account is added or [...]
“Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted”
Issue : Error: “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 77824 bytes) in /home/ivonson/public_html/wp-content/plugins/revver/xmlrpc-2_2/xmlrpc.inc on line 2551″ Fix : You need to adjust the value of ‘memory_limit’ accordingly. If you have ‘root’ access to the server then you can alter the value for ‘memory_limit’ : 1. Either by editing the [...]
Fantastico is not installed at the default location
Issue : Fantastico is not installed at the default location /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/fantastico. Either move the Fantastico directory from it’s current location to /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/fantastico OR enable ioncube loaders in WHM -> Tweak settings. root@server [~]# cp -p /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/etc/php.ini /var/cpanel/3rdparty/etc/php.ini cp: cannot create regular file `/var/cpanel/3rdparty/etc/php.ini’: No such file or directory Solution : 1. Try updating cPanel to [...]
