Where Does cPanel Put It?

[DatabaseDesign]

Found this little gem while scouring the net.


These are files that store the information read and used by WHM (as of 11.23.6)

• IP addresses: /etc/ips
• Reserved IPs: /etc/reservedips
• Reserved IP reasons: /etc/reservedipreasons
• IP address pool: /etc/ipaddrpool
• Access hash (WHM remote access key): /home/user/.accesshash or /root/.accesshash
• cPanel update preferences: /etc/cpupdate.conf
• Basic cPanel/WHM setup: /etc/wwwacct.conf
• System mail preferences: /etc/localaliases
• Exim open relay list: /etc/alwaysrelay
• Server-wide max emails per hour: /var/cpanel/maxemailsperhour
• Tweak settings: /var/cpanel/cpanel.config
• Packages: /var/cpanel/packages/
• Features: /var/cpanel/features/
• User data: /var/cpanel/users/ and /var/cpanel/userdata
• Apache templates: /var/cpanel/templates/apache(1,2)
• Exim config template: /etc/exim.conf.localopts
• Exim mail IPs: /etc/mailips
• rDNS for mail ips: /etc/mail_reverse_dns
• Clustering: /var/cpanel/cluster/root/config
• Service manager: /etc/chkserv.d
• Users and their domains: /etc/userdomains
• Users and their main domains: /etc/trueuserdomains
• Users and their owners: /etc/trueuserowners
• Main cPanel IP: /var/cpanel/mainip
• cPanel version: /usr/local/cpanel/version
• Resellers: /var/cpanel/resellers
• Reseller nameservers: /var/cpanel/resellers-nameservers

 

[DatabaseDesign]

A few more!

These are a few scripst that you can use to achieve the same results of their WHM equivalents:

• Initialize quotes: /scripts/initquotas
• Compile Apache: /scripts/easyapache (you can pass additional options - see EasyApache 2 docs)
• Update cPanel: /scripts/upcp
• Enable/disable tweak settings: /scripts/smtpmailgidonly on|off
• Change PHP API and suExec settings: /usr/local/cpanel/bin/rebuild_phpconf
• Suspend an account: /scripts/suspendacct <user> <reason>
• Terminate an account: /scripts/killacct <user>

 

[LaneHost]

thanks for sharing

 

[IkY0294]

Yea. Im going to look into this and see what I can find. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Host Pro]

wow, this is really handy. Thanks a lot.

 

[CaroNetTanya]

You can simply go to cPanel.net forum and could find a lot of helpful information

 

[hzSari]

Good list of files !!

 

[qualityhostings]

Thanks for sharing mate !

 

[atjeu]

Here is also a really cool Cpanel backup script which can be used for rsyncing backups to another server or doing restores.

http://whitedoggreenfrog.com/scripts/

The cpmr script is the one you want

 

[Taba-Promos]

Thank you for sharing that with us!