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To install any package called package.deb is very simple.
After you download that package, follow instruction below:
Go to directory where package.deb is kept.
For example if it is in /tmp directory:

$ cd /tmp

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Howto Install .deb Packages on Ubuntu Linux

Directory listing is enable by default on cPanel, if you’re not put any index file (index.html, index.htm, index.php, etc.) on any folder in any accounts, you will see any files in that folder when browsing.

If you want completely disable directory listing on cpanel, here the tips:

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Howto Prevent Directory Listing on cPanel

PHP and Apache has a history of not being able to track which users are sending out mail through the PHP mail function from the nobody user causing leaks in formmail scripts and malicious users to spam from your server without you knowing who or where.

Watching your exim_mainlog doesn’t exactly help, you see th email going out but you can’t track from which user or script is sending it. This is a quick and dirty way to get around the nobody spam problem on your Linux server.

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Howto Prevent PHP nobody Spammers

Email Logins Stopped Working After Moving Accounts to Other Server

After transfer cPanel accounts to another server and all email logins stopped working completely. Everything works fine except email, you get “wrong password” error. You also try to update password via cPanel and still got the same. Deleted all email accounts and re-created them again using old passwords, still can’t login also.

Here the solution…

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Email Stopped Working After Moving

First make sure you know your mysql root password, you have to replace DATABASEPASSWORD to your mysql root password.
If you have already used RoundCube installation please make sure you remove any traces of it with:

# cd /usr/local/cpanel/base
# rm -rf roundcube*
# mysql -p -e ‘drop database roundcube’;

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Howto Install RoundCube on cPanel

Usually when install cPanel using IP on the first time, your license will be fine.
But when you add new hostname to your server, cPanel said “Invalid License File” and you can’t login again.

With the new version of cPanel, refresh browser no more working.
Dont worry, here the solution

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Howto Fix Invalid License File on cPanel

Every night, cPanel runs the script /scripts/smartcheck to read the SMART diagnostic information from the drive (using smartctl) and warn the system administrator if the drive is having problems. But smartcheck defines “problems” as including the case where the ATA Error Count in 100 or more.

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Howto Turning Off Smartctrl Notices