You do not have permission to create subdomains of the server’s hostname in cpanel

Check to see if the following option is enabled under the “Domains” tab in “WHM Home » Server Configuration » Tweak Settings”:

“Allow users to park subdomains of the server’s hostname.”

Backup Configuration

For cPanel & WHM 54

( Home >> Backup >> Backup Configuration )

• Overview
• Global Settings
• Scheduling and Retention
• Files
• Databases
• Configure Backup Directory
• Additional Destinations
  • Create a custom transport script
• Save Configuration
• Run backups manually
• Backup files and directories
  • Files
  • Directories
• Additional documentation

Overview

The Backup Configuration interface allows system administrators to customize their scheduled backups.

Warning:

We strongly recommend that you only use the Backup Configuration interface to configure backups of your server. We plan to remove the Legacy Backup Configuration interface (Home >> Backup >> Legacy Backup Configuration) from WHM in a future release.

Note:

The system applies the current Backup Configuration settings to accounts that you create or transfer.

To enable and run backups, you must complete both of the following steps:

1. Select Enable for the Backup Status setting in this interface’s Global Settings section.
2. Select your desired settings for the Backup Configuration feature.
3. Use the Backup User Selection interface (Home >> Backup >> Backup User Selection) to enable backups for each desired cPanel user.

   Note:

   To enable or disable the Backup Configuration feature for all users, select the checkbox in the top right corner of the Backup User Selection interface.

Global Settings

You can configure the following global backup settings:

Setting	Description
Backup Status	Enable this setting to run the updated Backup Configuration feature. This setting defaults to Enable.
Backup Type	Choose one of the following options to determine how the system stores backup files: Compressed — Select this setting to save all of your information in a compressed format. This setting uses less disk space, but requires more time to complete. Uncompressed — Select this setting to save all of your information in an uncompressed format. This setting uses more disk space, but is faster than Compressed backups. Incremental — Select this setting to store only one uncompressed backup file. The system saves updated account information to the existing backup file, and remove the old information that these updates replace. This setting limits your restoration settings, but runs faster and uses less disk space than other backup types. Warning: If you choose to use Incremental backups, you cannot restore the account to a time before your last backup.
Maximum destination timeout in seconds	Enter the maximum number of seconds to allow a backup process to upload a single backup file or restore a single backup file. Note: We strongly recommend that you enter a number of seconds that is large enough for the system to upload your largest backup file.

Scheduling and Retention

The Scheduling and Retention settings allow you to specify when the backup process runs. You may choose to run backups on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis, or you may use a combination of these settings. Select the checkboxes that correspond to the timing settings that you wish to use.

Note:

You must select at least one of the following settings.

Setting	Description
Backup Daily	Your system creates a new backup on each of the days of the week that you select. When you select this setting, you mustalso configure the following settings: Select the days of the week on which you wish to run backups. In the Retain Daily backups text box, enter the maximum number of daily backup files to store on your system at any given time. Enter any number between 1 and 9999.
Backup Weekly	Your system creates a new backup once each week, on the day that you select. When you select this setting, you must also configure the following settings: Select the day of the week on which you wish to run backups. In the Retain Weekly backups text box, enter the maximum number of weekly backups to store on your system at any given time. Enter any number between 1 and 9999.
Backup Monthly	Your system creates a new backup either once or twice per week, on the days of the month that you select. When you select this setting, you must also configure the following settings: Select the day or days of the month on which you wish to run backups. In the Retain Monthly backups text box, enter the maximum number of monthly backups to store on your system at any given time. Enter any number between 1 and 9999. Note: If you run daily and monthly backups on the same day, the daily backup runs first, and then the monthly backup copies the daily backup.

Files

The Files settings allow you to configure the information that you wish to back up. Select the checkboxes that correspond to the settings that you wish to use.

Warning:

You must select either the Backup Accounts or Backup System Files checkbox in order to run backups.

Setting	Description
Backup Accounts	Back up the user files in each cPanel user’s home directory. Note: Click Select Users to open the Backup User Selection interface (Home >> Backup >> Backup User Selection). After you select this setting, select the type of data to include in the backup file: Backup Suspended Accounts — Select the Enable button to back up suspended accounts. Warning: If you do not enable this option, your server will not back up suspended accounts, regardless of their settings in the Backup User Selection interface ( Home >> Backup >> Backup User Selection ). Backup Access Logs — Select the Enable button to back up your server’s access logs and the/usr/local/cpanel/domlogs file. Backup Bandwidth Data — Select the Enable button to back up your server’s bandwidth data. Use Local DNS — Select the method to use to back up DNS information: Disable — The system backs up DNS information from the DNS cluster. Enable — The system backs up DNS information from the server for the domain.
Backup System Files	Back up your server’s system files. Notes: The system stores many of these files in the /etc directory. You must enable this setting for server restoration, but it is not necessary for account restoration. We strongly recommend that you enable this setting. For more information, read our System Backups documentation.

Databases

Select one of the following options for the Backup SQL Databases setting, to determine how to back up SQL databases:

Setting	Description
Per Account Only	Only back up the databases for each account. This setting uses the mysqldump utility.
Entire MySQL Directory	Back up all of the databases on the server. This backs up the entire /var/lib/mysql/ directory.
Per Account and Entire MySQL Directory	Perform a comprehensive backup that copies all of the databases for each individual account, as well as all of the databases on the server.

Configure Backup Directory

The following settings allow you to specify where you wish to save your backups.

Warning:

• We strongly recommend that you save your backups to a remote location in addition to a local destination.
• If you do not select the Retain backups in the default backup directory setting and do not specify a destination in the Additional Destinations setting, the system will return the following error: Error: Nowhere to back up: no enabled destinations found and retaining local copies is disabled.
• The backup process and the transfer process use separate queues. If each backup finishes much faster than each transfer, backup files can accumulate on the server and fill the hard drive.
• Perform backups to NFS mount points at your own risk. If you choose a NFS mount point, you risk data loss if there is a network interruption or if you did not properly configure NFS.
• To prevent performance degradation, the system automatically disables quotas on non-root filesystems that contain a backup destination.

Setting	Description
Default Backup Directory	To change the default backup directory, enter the absolute path to the desired directory location. Note: By default, the system saves backup files locally, to the /backup/ directory.
Retain backups in the default backup directory.	Select this checkbox to retain each account backup in the /backup/ directory after the backups transfer to another destination. If you do not select this setting, your server deletes account backup files from the /backup/ directory only after the following events occur: The system successfully transfers the backup file to at least one additional destination. The system attempts, successfully or unsuccessfully, to transfer the backup file to all of your additional destinations. Note: This setting does not cause the system to remove system backup files, directories, or other files.
Mount Backup Drive as Needed.	Select the Enable button to mount a backup drive. This setting requires a separate mount point and causesthe Backup Configuration process to check the /etc/fstab file for a backup mount. If a mount exists with the same name as the staging directory, the Backup Configuration process mounts the drive and backs up the information to the mount. After the backup process finishes, it dismounts the drive. If you select the Disable button, the Backup Configuration process does not check the /etc/fstab file for a mount.

Additional Destinations

You can save your backups to additional destinations. Each additional destination may increase the amount of time that the backup process requires. If the process runs too long, it may interfere with the next backup process.

Notes:

• To restore backups that exist in the additional destinations that you create, perform a remote restoration. For more information, read our Remote Restoration documentation.
• If you use the Incremental backup type, you cannot add additional destinations.
• To save your updated destination but not validate your changes, click Save Destination.
• To automatically validate your information after you save your changes, click Save and Validate Destination.

Select a destination type from the menu and click Create new destination. A new section for the selected destination type will appear.

Warning:

Only transfer system backup files over encrypted connections. The following destination types use encrypted connections:

• Amazon S3™
• SFTP
• WebDAV with SSL Enabled

The Additional Local Directory type does not transfer your data from the server, so that method is secure.

Select a tab to view information for that destination type:

• Amazon S3™
• FTP
• Additional Local Directory
• SFTP
• WebDAV
• Custom

Setting	Description
Destination Name	Enter a destination name for your backup file. This name appears in your destination table.
Transfer System Backups to Destination	Select this checkbox to transfer system backups to an additional destination. Warning: Only transfer system backup files over encrypted connections.
Backup Directory	Enter the directory path in which you wish to store backups. Note: This setting is optional.
Remote Host	Enter the hostname or IP address of the remote server. Important: Do not include http://, https://, a trailing port, or path information in the address that you enter. Do not use local hosts or loopback addresses.
Port	Enter the port to use to communicate with the remote server. By default, SFTP destinations use port 22.
Remote Account Username	Enter the username of the account on the remote server.
Authentication Type	Select how you wish to authenticate to the remote server: Key Authentication — Select this button to use key-based authentication. We strongly recommend that you use this method. Password Authentication — Select this button to use password-based authentication.
Key Authentication Options	If you selected the Key Authentication button for the Authentication Type setting, enter the following information: The full path of the private key on this server, in the Private Key text box. Note: Click Generate a new key to generate a new private key. The passphrase for this server, in the Passphrase text box.
Password Authentication Options	If you selected the Password Authentication button for the Authentication Type setting, enter the password for the account on the remote server in the Remote Password text box. Unless you specify a new password, the server uses the existing password.
Timeout	Enter the maximum amount of time in seconds that you want the server to wait for a response from the remote server before it generates errors. You must enter a number between 30 and 300. If the server does not respond in this time frame, it makes two additional attempts to contact the server. If the server does not respond after those attempts, the system administrator receives an email that notes the failed attempts, and the system attempts a transfer again the next time that backups run.

Save Configuration

After you configure the desired settings, click Save Configuration at the bottom of the Backup Configuration interface.

To reset all of the settings in the Backup Configuration interface to the default settings, click Reset.

Run backups manually

To run a backup manually, run the following command:

/usr/local/cpanel/bin/backup

If the backup is up-to-date but you still wish to perform a backup, run the following command:

/usr/local/cpanel/bin/backup --force

To use a custom packaging script, perform the following steps:

1. Copy the /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/pkgacct file and modify it.
2. Store the modified pkgacct file in the /var/cpanel/lib/Whostmgr/Pkgacct/pkgacct directory.
3. Run the /usr/local/cpanel/bin/backup command with the --allow-override flag.

Backup files and directories

When you select Backup Configuration Files, cPanel & WHM backs up the following files and directories:

cPanel & WHM backs up the following files and directories:

Files

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/etc/exim.conf /etc/exim.conf.local /etc/exim.conf.localopts /etc/namedb/named.conf /etc/rc.conf /etc/named.conf /etc/proftpd.conf /etc/localdomains /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf /etc/group /etc/shadow /etc/master.passwd /etc/passwd /etc/fstab /etc/ips /etc/ips.remotemail /etc/ips.remotedns /etc/reservedips /etc/reservedipreasons /etc/quota.conf /etc/wwwacct.conf /etc/remotedomains /etc/rndc.conf /etc/secondarymx /etc/my.cnf /root/.my.cnf /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf

Directories

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/etc/namedb /etc/valiases /etc/proftpd /etc/vdomainaliases /etc/ssl /etc/vfilters /usr/local/frontpage /usr/share/ssl /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman /var/lib/rpm /var/lib/named/chroot/var/named/master /var/named /var/cpanel /var/spool/cron /var/cron/tabs /var/spool/fcron /var/log/bandwidth /var/ssl /var/lib/mysql

To configure system backups to include custom files or directories, create a new file or directory in the /var/cpanel/backups/extrasdirectory (for example, /var/cpanel/backups/extras/etc). In that file, enter an absolute path to any files that you wish to back up (for example, /etc/example.conf).

Note:

The server administrator can edit the /etc/my.cnf file to change the MySQL data directory location. In such a case, WHM will back up the directory at its new location.

 

Additional documentation

• Backup Restoration — Restore your backup with the Backup Restoration interface.
• Remote Restoration — Restore backups in the Additional Destinations locations that you created.
• System Backups — Upload system backups to your chosen backup destinations.

Note when install WHM & Cpanel

1/ Installing WHM & Cpanel and activate license:

A/ Installing:

# cd /home

# curl -o latest -L https://securedownloads.cpanel.net/latest

# sh latest

If there are errors during install Cpanel:

Please check the log file carefully at /var/log/cpanel-install.log

We can access to WHM via https://ipadress_of_yourserver:2087 after finishing Cpanel

And then do basic configuration.

B/ Activate license:

To activate license: /usr/local/cpanel/cpkeyclt

Login to https://store.cpanel.net/login/ and access to link View my license, finally point ip address which you want.

2/  Create account for Cpanel:

Access to WHM via https://ipadress_of_yourserver:2087

Account Funtions/Create account

Use account above to access to Cpanel via  https://ipadress_of_yourserver:2083

3/ Add permission to Database in Cpanel:

There are no tab “users” or “privilege” in phpmyAdmin which is included in WHM/Cpanel. (refer http://forums.cpanel.net/f354/phpmyadmin-users-tab-gone-367661.html).

Access to Cpanel via https://ipadress_of_yourserver:2083 and go to Mysql Database

And then create user who will control your database.

Back to WHM, go to Database Map Tool: select Cpanel user and then map Database users to Database names.

Access to Cpanel via https://ipadress_of_yourserver:2083 and go to Mysql Database

And then add user to database which you want, finally add “privilege”

Cpanel & WHM ports

cPanel
	cPanel	2082
	cPanel – SSL	2083
	WHM	2086
	WHM – SSL	2087
	Webmail	2095
	Webmail – SSL	2096
Email
	POP3	110
	POP3 – SSL	995
	IMAP	143
	IMAP – SSL	993
	SMTP	25
	SMTP Alternate	26
	SMTP Alternate	587
	SMTP – SSL	465
Web
	HTTP	80
	SSL	443
	FTP	21
	FTPs	990
	SFTP	22
	SFTP Shared/Reseller Servers	2222
	Webdisk	2077
	Webdisk – SSL	2078
	MySQL	3306
	MSSQL	1433
	SSH	22
	SSH Shared/Reseller Servers	2222
Other
	Plesk Control Panel	8880
	Plesk Control Panel – SSL	8443
	Plesk Linux Webmail	N/A*
	Plesk Windows Webmail (SmarterMail)	9998**
	Virtuozzo	4643
	DotNet Panel	9001
	DotNet Panel Login	80
	RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol)	4489

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*Plesk Linux Webmail is available for access through port 80 via webmail.domain.com(replace domain.com with the target URL).

**SmarterMail may only be accessed without SSL, as any attempt to access SmarterMail via HTTPS will result in an error. Accessing email securely on a Windows Plesk server requires the use of a third party mail client through the standard POP3, IMAP, and SMTP SSL ports specified above.

Note: This page does not include all of the possible ports that may be opened, since it is a very huge list.

For security reasons, many unused ports are closed by default. In certain circumstances, we can open those ports for you. Please refer to our article onopening new ports for more information.