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1. Log into your Server or VPS via SSH (if you are running windows, you can SSH using Putty).
2. From the command line, execute the following:
# /scripts/rebuildcpusers

This rebuilds the individual files for each domain under /var/cpanel/users from the source database, which fixes the display issues in WHM.

Tags: Cpanel

You may notice that if you attempt an easyapache update in Cpanel that you run into the following issue;

Premature end of script headers: /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/
easyapache.pl: Please check   /  usr /  local /  cpanel /  logs /  error_log  for the exact error.

This indicates that you have either a bad install or an out of date instance of Perl. You can correct this by doing the following;
SSH into the vps  / server and do the following;

cd /

wget http://layer1.cpanel.net/perl588installer.tar.gz

tar -xvzf perl588installer.tar.gz

cd ./perl588installer

./install

cd /

rm -rf ./perl588installer

rm ./perl588installer.tar.gz

rm -f /home/*/.cpanel-datastore/_usr_bin_perl_-v

All done!

Tags: Cpanel, Linux, perl

Recently I came across a ticket at work regarding getting Fantastico installed on a Linux Vps. The issue was that whenever you ran the install script, it fetched the files and then it stated Fantastico was installed. However, if you went to the Fantastico admin section, it simply asked you again to install Fantastico again. If you attempted to do this again, the cycle would repeat.
What I found out was that Perl was outdated as wellas Wget, so it wasn’t installed the files correctly and it wasn’t grabbing them either. So I did the following;

1. Upgrade perl to 5.8.8

2. Updated wget – http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2009/01/upgrading-wget-for-linux-servers/

3. Removed all instances of Fantastico from  /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/

4. Ran  rm -rf /usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/*/fantastico

Once I did this, I ran the fastastico install again and it completed successfully.

You might have other experiences, but this helped get Fantastico working for me.

Tags: Cpanel, Fantastico, Linux

I recently ran into an issue where I would update the Cpanel instance using the:

/scripts/upcp –force

To update Cpanel, as I normally do. However I noticed that when I did it this time, It did not update MySQL. Thinking that’s fine, I’ll just check the MySQL 5.0 button in Main >> Server Configuration >> Tweak Settings. However the option to update to version 5.0 was not there…. This was puzzling indeed.

I then ran /scripts/mysqlup –force . That didn’t help either, version 4 was still there and no sign of version 5. I then tried to see what rpm’s where in place;

rpm -qa | grep My

Nothing but MySQL 4……. Still at a complete loss.

Then I finally looked at the config file for cpanel;

/var/cpanel/cpanel.config

Look at that:

maxemailsperhour=0
maxmem=128
myname=cpaneld
mysql-version=5.1
mysqldebug=0
nativessl=1
nobodyspam=0
nouserbackupwarn=0

MySQL 5.1????????? Changing this to 5.0 and then running the /scripts/mysqlup --force
command fixed this issue. I now can select MySQL 5.0 by going to  Main >> Server Configuration >>
Tweak Settings.

Looks like the new update of Cpanel has borked the MySQL install.

Tags: Cpanel, MySQL 5

This article shows how to install ffmpeg, ffmpeg-PHP, Mplayer, Mencoder, flv2tool, LAME MP3 Encoder, and Libog from source. It should work on most systems, however may need some tweaking from system to sytem.

cd /usr/local/src

Download source tarballs:

wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/9225/flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6.tgz
wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lame/lame-3.97.tar.gz
wget http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ffmpeg-php/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0.tbz2
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.1.3.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.1.2.tar.gz
wget http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20061022.tar.bz2

Extract the tarballs:

tar zxvf lame-3.97.tar.gz
tar zxvf libogg-1.1.3.tar.gz
tar zxvf libvorbis-1.1.2.tar.gz
tar zxvf flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6.tgz
tar jxvf essential-20061022.tar.bz2
tar jxvf ffmpeg-php-0.5.0.tbz2
tar zxvf flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6.tgz

Make a directory to store all the codecs:

mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs/

Install any necessary packages:

yum install gcc gmake make libcpp libgcc libstdc++ gcc4 gcc4-c++ gcc4-gfortran
yum install subversion ruby ncurses-devel

*If you notice that you can not install Ruby using yum please do the following;

sudo mkdir /usr/local/src
cd /usr/local/src
sudo curl -O ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-p72.tar.gz
sudo tar xzvf ruby-1.8.7-p72.tar.gz
cd ruby-1.8.7-p72
sudo ./configure --enable-shared --enable-pthread
sudo make
sudo make install

Install SVN packages

svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
cd /usr/local/src/mplayer
svn update
cd /usr/local/src

Copy codecs for mplayer:

mv /usr/local/src/essential-20061022/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/
chmod -R 755 /usr/local/lib/codecs/

If you are using secure tmp:

mkdir /usr/local/src/tmp
chmod 777 /usr/local/src/tmp
export TMPDIR=/usr/local/src/tmp

Installing Lame:

cd /usr/local/src/lame-3.97
./configure
make && make install

Installing Libogg:

cd /usr/local/src/libogg-1.1.3
./configure && make && make install

Installing libvorbis:

cd /usr/local/src/libvorbis-1.1.2
./configure && make && make install

Installing flvtool2:

cd /usr/local/src/flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6/
ruby setup.rb config
ruby setup.rb setup
ruby setup.rb install

cd /usr/local/src/mplayer
./configure && make && make install

Installing ffmpeg:

cd /usr/local/src/ffmpeg/
./configure –enable-libmp3lame –enable-libogg –enable-libvorbis –disable-mmx –enable-shared
make && make install

ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavformat.so.50 /usr/lib/libavformat.so.50
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavcodec.so.51 /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavutil.so.49 /usr/lib/libavutil.so.49
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavformat.so.51 /usr/lib/libavformat.so.51

Installing ffmpeg-php:

cd /usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/
phpize
./configure
make
make install

Note: Make sure this is the correct php.ini for this server.

echo ‘extension=/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/ffmpeg.so’ >> /usr/local/Zend/etc/php.ini

Restart apache:

service httpd restart

You should be ready to go now!

Note: up2date can be used if you don’t have yum installed.

Tags: FFMpeg FFMpeg-php