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Disable dangerous PHP functions on your web hosting server

Post author:Editorial Staff
Post published:May 2, 2017
Post category:WHM PHP
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Not dangerous by design, some PHP functions can be used for malicious purposes. Many web hosting providers choose to disable such functions. Some of the functions are: apache_child_terminateapache_get_modulesapache_noteapache_setenvdefine_syslog_variablesdisk_free_spacedisk_total_spacediskfreespacedlescapeshellargescapeshellcmdexecextractget_cfg_varget_current_usergetcwdgetenvgetlastmodgetmygidgetmyinodegetmypidgetmyuidini_restoreini_setpassthrupcntl_alarmpcntl_execpcntl_forkpcntl_get_last_errorpcntl_getprioritypcntl_setprioritypcntl_signalpcntl_signal_dispatchpcntl_sigprocmaskpcntl_sigtimedwaitpcntl_sigwaitinfopcntl_strerrorppcntl_waitpcntl_waitpidpcntl_wexitstatuspcntl_wifexitedpcntl_wifsignaledpcntl_wifstoppedpcntl_wstopsigpcntl_wtermsigphp_unamephpinfopopenposix_getloginposix_getpwuidposix_killposix_mkfifoposix_setpgidposix_setsidposix_setuidposix_ttynameposix_unameposixcproc_closeproc_get_statusproc_niceproc_openproc_terminateps_auxputenvreadlinkrunkit_function_renameshell_execshow_sourcesymlinksyslogsystem For more details on these functions please search the PHP site at…

Configure security questions for WHM login

Post author:Editorial Staff
Post published:May 1, 2017
Post category:WHM
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For enhanced login security to Web Host Manager(WHM), you can setup security questions. 1.Go to WHM->Security Center->Security Questions 2. Click the Edit Questions and Answers button to set up the questions and answers. Please notice that you can't use one,…

Whitelist an IP in CSF for remote MySQL connections

Post author:Editorial Staff
Post published:April 23, 2017
Post category:Linux WHM
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ConfigServer Security & Firewall (csf) is a popular firewall for Linux web servers. Many cPanel web servers use it. By default, the csf is configured to block incoming connections to MySQL port, which is 3306. But you have a client…

Whitelist Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, Baidu bots in csf and mod_security

Post author:Editorial Staff
Post published:April 23, 2017
Post category:WHM Linux
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ConfigServer Security & Firewall or csf for short is a popular firewall solution for cPanel servers. Combined with some good rules for mod_security, it does a great job. To prevent csf temporary/permanently blocking the IPs of good bots you should…

How to check if a domain is on the server

Post author:Editorial Staff
Post published:March 20, 2017
Post category:WHM
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Do you have a lot of domains and you want to quickly check if a domain exists on the server? Just run the shell command: grep yourdomain /etc/userdomains root@web [~]# grep demo.plothost.com /etc/userdomains demo.plothost.com: plothost root@web [~]# In this case,…