Greetings,

If you have a new VPS or a dedicated server with cpanel and are looking for some document on guidance how to set the name server for it the here is the step by step to do it.
The hostname must be FQDN - Fully Qualified Domain Name
hostname is the your server’s name that you want to set. For example if you want to set it server.domain.com. Always set the hostname with the DomainName that you owns.

1. http://IP/whm edit dns zone .. select your domain

server IN A YourSeverIPHere
www.server IN A YourSeverIPHere
OR
if you are using shell then you can simply append following lines there in
# vi /var/named/domain.com.db

server IN A YourSeverIPHere
www.server IN A YourSeverIPHere

Save the file
#service named reload
#rndc reload domain.com

2. WHM >> Basic cPanel/WHM Setup >> Hostname
or
Login to shell /server as a root and fire this command the second parameter will the hostname that you want to set.
hostname server.domain.com

3. Check /etc/hosts file that it is set properly.

Just confirm from some expert that you have set that properly, cause changing the hostname will affect few services on your server if you have not done that properly or have done any spelling mistakewhile setting hostname of your server.

4. Fire hostname on your server if it shows the hostname then you have set it properly.

You have set the hostname now.
Cheers..!!

Jason

How to access cpanel without pointing DNS to that server

Hello Friends,

You can access your cpanel without pointing your DNS to that server from your local machine. For that please follow the following steps.

1. Make sure that you are having the account on that server which you are trying to access.

2. You must have the cpanel login details.

3. put the following entries in your local machine hosts file. for that edit

c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

add the following line as

domain.com

and now you can access your cpanel without pointing DNS to that server.

Hello,
If you get cpanel license expired page after you
login to your cpanel than you need to update your cpanel
license immediately.To update cpanel license please go
through below steps :

1> Goto /usr/local/cpanel ->

cd /usr/local/cpanel

2> Execute the cpkeyclt file therein ->

./cpkeyclt

The cpanel license gets updated immediately.
Now try to login to your cpanel and the error is
disappeared!!

Greetings ,

Pissed off with wrong disk usages for your email accoounts in Webmail ?

Dont worry ..

Just find and remove below files from your account ..
1. find /home/username/mail/ -name maildirsize

2. find /home/username/.cpanel-datastore/ -name “diskusage_*”
Cheers

Kyle

Set SPF record for your domain:

In order to set SPF record for your domain go to the site called

http://www.openspf.org/

Select option there called SPF WIZARD

Put your domain name there and say start.

Select all those options you want there like A record, MX record and press “continue” button.

You will get a spf record for your domain under the heading,

The SPF record:

v=spf1 a mx ?all

Now you will have to put this record in the dns zone for that domain on the server.

You will have to add the entry in dns zone for that domain, for spf record as per given below,

domain.com.  IN  TXT  v=spf1 a mx ?all

You can check whether it is added correct to your domain at — http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=domain.com >> Mail >> SPF record option.