Question 1

enable PHP zip extension in cPanel

Accepted Answer

The PHP zip extension is used to read and write compressed ZIP files.

Follow these steps to enable the PHP zip extension in your cPanel web hosting:

Log into your cPanel account
Go to the Select PHP Version menu
Click the Extensions tab
Check the zip extension to enable it

Here's how you can do this task step by step.

Enable PHP zip in your cPanel hosting:

Log in to your cPanel account, then click on the Select PHP Version menu under the Software tab.

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Enable zip extension in cPanel web hosting

Click on the Extensions tab to view the zip extension under the Z section as shown below.

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Click the box to the left of the zip extension to enable it.

Question 2

How to install external SSL Certificate on cPanel

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The SSL/TLS Manager will allow you to create SSL certificate, certificate signing requests, and private keys. These are large parts of utilizing SSL to make your site validation more secure. SSL allow you to make sure all your pages on your site keeping data itself no another hack or third party form are stealing the data, for example, logins, MasterCard numbers, and so forth are sent scrambled rather than plain content. It is critical to make sure about your web page's login regions, shopping zones, and different pages where delicate data could be sent over the web.

After login into your cPanel navigate to below:

(cPanel >> Home >> Security >> SSL/TLS)

Warning:

As of cPanel and WHM form 68, we just help Transport Layer Security (TLS) convention adaptation 1.2.

Note:

CAA records in the domain zone file limit which CAs (Certificate Authority) may give certificates for that domain.

Let me share a example, a CAA record for Comodo would take after the accompanying model, where example.com speaks to the domain name:

You can manage your CAA records through the [Zone Editor]

Documents available:

The following records give more data about the areas of this interface:

Private Keys - KEY — Generate, see, transfer, or erase private keys.

**Signing Certificate Requests - CSR **— Generate, see, or erase SSL testament marking demands.

Authentications - CRT—Generate, see, transfer, or erase SSL testaments.

Introduce and Manage SSL for your site HTTPS — Set up a SSL authentication for the site.

Oversee Certificate Sharing—Change your site's testament sharing authorizations.

Question 3

Monitor FTP sign in session using cPanel

Accepted Answer

This interface shows data about current connections to your FTP server and it permits you to end those connections.

View recent FTP sessions:

Login to your cPanel and under Files section you will get option for FTP Connections.

Disable clients from an FTP session:

If you find a suspicious session from a account, or if the client is inert, you can disable their FTP session. To separate a client from a FTP session,

Perform the given below step:

1. Tap Disconnect next to the FTP session that you wish to disconnect.

2. To confirm that the server disconnecting the session, click Reload.

Question 4

Change the PHP maximum upload file size limit

Accepted Answer

This article explains how to change the maximum upload file size for PHP contents by utilizing the upload_max_filesize and post_max_size orders in a .htaccess document.

You may need to change the maximum upload file size for your site. But for security reasons, you must set a lower value to keep clients from uploading very large documents to your site. To do this, change the upload_max_filesize and post_max_size orders in .htaccess file.

Sign in to your cPanel and locate your .htaccess file under public_html and add below lines:

To ensure that uploads work accurately, the post_max_size should be a little large than upload_max_filesize. For example, you can set the upload_max_filesize to 100M, and the post_max_size order to 102M.

Save to the .htaccess records and check your WordPress.

Change PHP Maximum Upload Size Using .user.ini -

If you are not able to increase maximum upload file size using .htaccess then probably the server you are using configured for .user.ini.

You can also verify using phpinfo function, make a PHP test file that contains the below code in a similar index where the .htaccess record is found:

Load the test file in your internet browser, and afterward check for the name of the value.

Question 5

How to disable ModSecurity in cPanel

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To protect your sites, we utilize a commercially accessible ruleset on our Web Application Firewall,called ModSecurity.

Mod_security is an Apache module that assists with shielding your site from different threats. It is used to block commonly known exploits by use of regular expressions and rule sets and is enabled on all Cyberin servers by default.

Mod_Security can possibly block common code injection threats which strengthens the security of the server.

We will help to disable the mod_security rules if it's required by your application. When coding a dynamic site, in some cases clients neglect to write code to help prevent hacks by doing things, for example, validating input.

Mod_security can help at times those clients that run the web app that don't have security checks in their code.

On the off chance that you are running Mod_security on your server it will obstruct this from running. Ordinarily, you would see a 406 error for this situation if mod_security is enabled.

You set up rules for Mod_security to check http calls against and check whether a risk is available.

Finding Mod_security is entirely simple. Any site that calls a string prohibited by a mod_security rule will give a 406 error instead to showing the page.

Disable ModSecurity on cPanel:

1- Login to your cPanel and under Security you will get plugin ModSecurity.

2- Click on ModSecurity and you will get option to ON/OFF Mod_security for the domain.

Question 6

How does the DNS Work  and How To Edit DNS Records with cPanel

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How Can You Manage DNS of Your Domain In cPanel

It is important to know working of DNS First before proceeding.When you register for a domain, the domain registrar provide you a control panel named Domain control panel (it is different from cPanel or any other web hosting control panels).

Here you can specify the name servers of the domain,you can renew the domain name, changes in contact information of the domain and many more. These name servers designated in the domain control panel are the authentic name servers of the domain. In these authoritative name servers, it needs to be a zone file in which the DNS records (like NS,A, CNAME, TXT records ) are added.

For perfect name resolution the NS records should be same as the name servers entered in the domain control panel

Users using our name servers, can easily alter the DNS zone file or DNS records in cPanel. Those who are using exterior or any other third party name servers (eg: CloudFlare services), you need to update the DNS records or zone file there in their DNS management area.

How can we Edit DNS records through cPanel as :cPanel > Domains >Advanced DNS Zone Editor

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To edit the DNS reords of the existing DNS Zone, click on the ‘Edit’ button taht is present on the right side of the coresponding DNS record.You can it find in the bottom of the screenshot shown above.

If you want to Add new DNS records, Select the domain name from the drop down, add the DNS records below and click on ‘Add record’ button.

Please note that mail exchang MX record can't be specified here, we will see it later.

DNS Records

A record – A is "Address" here,It specifies actual IP address of the domain.

AAAA record – It is used to get a 128-bit Ipv6 address from a hostname.

CNAME record - CNAME i.e. "canonical name".Helps tomake one domain an alias of another domain.

MX record – MX i.e. "Mail Exchange".helps to specify list of mail exchange servers (mail servers) that need to be used for the domain.

PTR record –PTR is "pointer", which helps to get the CNAME from anIPv4 address.

NS record – The authentic name servers of the domain is specified here.

SOA record –It is "State of Authority"Which is one of the most important DNS records which stores informations about the domain.

SRV record – It is "service",used to specify TCP service operating on the domain.

TXT record –It is used to place any text into the DNS record, this is to confirm the domain ownership.

How to Edit MX records

As we know, MX records can't be modified,added through Advanced DNS Zone Editor option.cPanel > Mail > MX Entry

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now go to the domain's drop down list and select the name of the domain

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In the Email routing option

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select

local Mail Exchanger (if mail server in the same server, default mail servers) or
Remote Mail Exchanger (other's mail servers like Google Apps or mandrill) or
Backup Mail Exchanger (set this option if the top most priority mail server is exterior) option depending upon the mail server you are using. If you use our name servers (not mail servers), just leave it as Automatically detect configuration.