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.
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Tag: shell
Bulk update your code to run with PHP 7.0+
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.
Quick email forwarder in Shell
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.
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How to clone a website in cPanel
Would 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
WordPress Installer
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.
Server White Listing for Clients
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.
PHP Obfuscator
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
WordPress Server-wide Plugin Update
Created a new bash script to update all installations of WordPress server-wide (core, themes and plugins). It works a treat!
Bulk update scripts to PHP 5.4+
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.