Edventures in Normalcy

First, you need your installation defaults, find the installer.properties example below:

With this file, you can install ColdFusion 11 with the following:

The output in the log file should look something like this:

Chown the CFIDE:

Backup your license.properties:

Add the service:

If the above does not exist, and well hey, it didn’t for me, I did write another article with the file needed.  Check that Article out.

sconfig wants the “real” hostname or the connector won’t install.

Turn the listen flag to false in the license.propterties:

Start ColdFusion:

Perform the wsconfig:

In my example, I happened to run the command twice, with varied setups.  I am documenting them both and will clean up at next install:

After the above, my CF11Installer.log added the following:

Performing the wsconfig generated the file I needed to move forward, /usr/local/apache/conf/mod_jk.conf to which the contents are below:

I then distilled the changes to ensure cPanel was copacetic with them, regenerated the conf and restarted apache:

During the last step, I did open for editing /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf twice and /usr/local/apache/conf/mod_jk.conf once before distilling and restarting again.

Edit the neo-security.xml and throw in some good defaults.

set rds.security.usesinglerdsp to false

set allowconcurrentadminlogin to false

set admin.userid.required to true

set allowedAdminIPList to 127.0.0.1 and an any others of importance

set secureprofile.enabled to true

The admin.userid.root.salt string may need to be updated, idk.

Restart the CF’s

/opt/coldfusion11/cfusion/bin/coldfusion stop
/opt/coldfusion11/cfusion/bin/coldfusion start

You can run the above to re sync the local status/key.  To verify your machine is licensed, browse to the following and enter in the external IP address:

https://verify.cpanel.net/

Personal use case scenarios for needing to run the aforementioned script are changing the IP on the machine, or if the license has been upgrades, from trial fro example.

Sauce: https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/cpanel-license-activation.97409/

After a recent installation of dotDefender, the following error came up:
“Internal Server Error

500

No response from subprocess (/usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/addon_dotDefender.cgi): The subprocess exited with statu s 2 (ENOENT).”

The log file for dotDefender, /usr/local/APPCure-full/log/dotDefender_bpd.log, gives further detail:

The fix was to install Crypt::Passwd::XS as such:

Update 1-29-2016

This error popped up again, and seemingly coincided to an upgrade in cPanel.  The upgraded version is WHM 54.0 (build 8).  The error was almost identical to the one above, but instead of outputting the error to the dotDefender log, it was going to the cPanel log (/usr/local/cpanel/logs/error_log) as such:

~

Can’t locate cPanel/PublicAPI.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/cpanel /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .) at /usr/local/cpanel/Cpanel/Accounting.pm line 32.

BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at /usr/local/cpanel/Cpanel/Accounting.pm line 32.

Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/addon_dotDefender.cgi line 5.

BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/addon_dotDefender.cgi line 5.

[2016-01-28 17:35:38 -0500] info [cpsrvd] Internal Server Error: “GET /cpsess122967374/cgi/addon_dotDefender.cgi HTTP/1.1” 500 No response from subprocess (/usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/addon_dotDefender.cgi): The subprocess reported error number 2 when it ended.

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Speaking with cPanel support,

This should be fixed. After further review we didn’t acutally rename all of these packages, it looks to maybe only be some API calls rather than the package. This was failing because the following file was modified.

[21:37:25 cp root@7449479 ~]cPs# head /usr/local/cpanel/Cpanel/Accounting.pm

ypackage cPanel::Accounting;

It should have been this looking at another server.

[21:40:42 cp root@7449479 ~]cPs# head Accounting.pm package Cpanel::Accounting;

Once I corrected that I could load the page. I did have a token error and had to login and then got an access error but I believe as root you should have no issue now.

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The updated file correcting the issue is below:

I ran into this error on a RHEL machine that recently patched.  To correct the issue, I recreated the symlink in /tmp :

I found the solve and associated troubleshooting steps here: http://forums.cpanel.net/f354/cant-connect-local-mysql-server-through-socket-var-lib-mysql-mysql-sock-111-a-78444.html

::Installation::

1 Run the following command to check if Apache, PHP, MySQL, Bind or Cyrus are pre-installed by the OS:

2 If any are installed they can cause issues with installing cPanel, although I have seen cPanel attempt to import settings. I would rather remove them:

3 Open the /home directory

4 Fetch the latest installation file from the cPanel servers

::NOTE:: If you want to install the STABLE release, further details found here, as apposed to latest, run the following command:

5 Run the installation files

Once done, it is time to configure this bad boy!

::Configuration::

*As seen in http://www.thecpaneladmin.com/skipping-whm-setup-wizard/ http://www.thecpaneladmin.com/skipping-whm-setup-wizard/

1 Touch this file to tell cPanel it is being automatically setup.

2 Configure the 3 main services for the server.

3 Replace the following strings [Server’s Main IP], [user@example.com], [Servers FQDN Hostname], [hostname 1], [hostname 2], [hostname 3] with their appropriate values.

::NOTE:: Keep in mind this should be ONE line once you have updated the string below.

Linux VPS (CPanel) What to do if you are not able to access PhpMyAdmin from a individual account.
Within CPanel, you have the ability to access a MySql database using PhpMyAdmin. However you may notice that if you attempt to connect to PhpMyAdmin using a login other than root (Using port 2083) you will get the following error;
PhpMyAdmin Error:

>#2002 – The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server’s socket is not correctly configured)

To correct this you will need to login as root and edit /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php. To do this, do the following;

(You can also use Pico or Nano if it is installed.

find

change to

next line

change to

You may also will want to change “localhost” to “127.0.0.1″

That’s it. Now restart MySql (this may or may not be necessary) and you will be able to login to PhpMyAdmin.