cPanel ntp server time wrong
If you find that your cPanel server time is still wrong after setting the TimeZone and syncing the time, you may have to set the time manually once.
FTP doesn't work on server using AFP
Although you should NOT be using FTP, if you need to for some reason, like we did on one server, and some people can't upload files, this might be the issue. We run APF firewall on some servers. A…
Installing Majordomo on a cPanel box with Exim
No frills tutorial on using Majordomo mailing list app on a cPanel box, while running Exim. I've used this on several boxes over the last five years without issue. The setup allows you to manage individual lists by domain. Each of your accounts can have their own majordomo lists. There is no control panel for this setup, and all the editing takes place on the commend line. Hope someone finds it useful.
Installing Node, Bower and Gulp on a cPanel box
Updated for 2018 to use nvm. I've been using Node, npm, bower and gulp in my local Vagrant VM under Ubuntu. However, as one of my current projects will be shuffled off to a cPanel CentOS server soon, I thought I would check how easy it is to install all this on the cPanel side. This mini-how-to assumes you are running the latest cPanel (WHM 11.42.0 (build 23) as of this writing) running on CentOS 6. Assuming you have this configuration, then you will already have git installed and running as required by npm in some instances.
Setting up Duplicity and Duply on a CentOS 6/7 cPanel box for S3 backups
I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to install Duply and Duplicity to enable S3 backups on my CentOS cPanel box. This is a bit rushed, so instructions are brief. If you notice anything wrong, please let me know in the comments and I fix it up.