Cpanel/WHM Hacks
These were pretty useful and popular in their day (early 2000s), and I'm leaving them up for historical giggles.
More Knob? Unpossible! Does anyone still use these? Do they work? Either way, I'd appreciate it if you'd drop me a note. Find out what happened here...
Working in a shared hosting environment can suck. You can't access various things, or you want to allow others to access things that are only in cpanel/whm. Here's a few hacks that may help.
Components outside of Cpanel/WHM
| Script | Example | Code | Notes |
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| Autoresponder: | None | View | Allow access to webmail autoresponder configuration outside of cPanel |
| AWStats: | View | View | View outside cPanel |
| AWStatsAuth: | -- | View | Have clients "login" to AWStats through a web form |
| Fileman | README | Download | Fileman is a proxy for the Cpanel File Manager. It allows resellers the ability
to offer the functionality of the Cpanel File Manager without having
to give complete access to the full Cpanel. |
| Lastest Visitors: | None | View | View outside cPanel |
| Server status: | View | View |
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| Webalizer stats: | View | View | View outside cPanel |
Backups*
| Script | Example | Code | Notes |
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| Backup and FTP: | Sample output | View |
Similar to others. Uses cURL/SSL to download home backups and db backups, but uploads them to a remote ftp server of your choosing. Uses an HTML form submittal. NOT recommended, flaky, insecure. |
| Multi-site full backups: | Sample output | View |
Requests full backups through cpanel. Uses cURL/SSL. |
| Multi-site home backups: | See script for usage | View |
Uses wget |
| Multi-site home backups: | Sample Log | View |
Uses cURL; a 35mb backup seems to be about the limit; YMMV |
| Multi-site db backup: | Sample Log | View |
Uses straight PHP; Not tested on "large" databases |
* The backup scripts using cURL and straight PHP (i.e. not wget) seem to have trouble with files over
about 35 mb.
* All the backup scripts pass the username/passwords to whm/cpanel through the URL. Some scripts use SSL. Others don't.
Miscellaneous Utilities
| Script | Example | Code | Notes |
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| Cpanel Login: | Try it. | View Source in your Browser |
Simple html/javascript form. Password in cleartext. http or https. |
| Disk usage: | View | View | |
| Mysql disk usage: | View | View | |
| Re-theme: | Sample output | View |
Uses cURL/SSL |
| Server Uptime: | View | View | |
Voxtreme Utilities
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