After seeing that cPanel doesn’t offer a quick way to change a reseller for a user, I’ve made a simple script to set this in shell.
Continue reading Quickly update the reseller ownership in cPanel
After seeing that cPanel doesn’t offer a quick way to change a reseller for a user, I’ve made a simple script to set this in shell.
Continue reading Quickly update the reseller ownership in cPanel
Migrating from PHP 5.x to PHP 7.x is a hassle when you’re dealing with a large website or multiple websites on a server. So, I’ve made some improvements to an existing a shell script to recursively modify directories of PHP pages that load in 4 or 5 but will no longer run in PHP 7.
I’m always create new forwarding emails for different websites – helps me track down if and when their email list is hacked… To save logging into cPanel or WHM, I’ve created a little script to quickly add new forwarding emails.
Continue reading Quick email forwarder in ShellWould you like to clone any website in cPanel? There is a pretty fool-proof way to clone a website and change the references to URLs, paths and database details. There isn’t one perfect catch-all method, but you can cover most bases using this short guide. Continue reading How to clone a website in cPanel
This is my biggest bash script yet! It will fully install WordPress from a shell command and add a number of security measures to boot.
ConfigServer Firewall has been great at keeping unwanted users at bay on my web servers, but it also causes plenty of problems – notably when the SMTP authentication fails multiple times. This is usually caused by an email account trying to send an email and repeatedly using bad credentials to login. After a short period of time, CSF or cPHulk kicks in and blocks all communication with their website.
Managing this is a pain as there is no way (as far as I can tell) to allow clients to white list themselves when this happens. So, I’ve put up a page on a different server that handles requests for white listing.
I’ve found a good obfuscation/encoder tool to hide the source code of PHP files from shell written by Prakhar Prasad.
This is a very useful tool if you want to prevent others from viewing and editing your PHP code. Continue reading PHP Obfuscator
Created a new bash script to update all installations of WordPress server-wide (core, themes and plugins). It works a treat!
I’ve written a shell script to bulk update PHP pages, replacing ereg, eregi with preg_match, ereg_match with preg_match, split with preg_split and changing the $HTTP globals to their modern versions. I haven’t seen this anywhere else, so I’d thought I should post something here.