Description of Log files on cPanel dedicated server

Log file is the file that holds every information of all the files which were accessed. This helps the server administrators to identify and troubleshoot the errors.

Below are some of the log files:

Apache web server

/usr/local/apache/logs/access_log
/usr/local/apache/logs/error_log
/usr/local/apache/domlogs/domain.com

MySQL database server

cpanel_logo Description of Log files on cPanel dedicated server/var/lib/mysql/server.hostname.com.err

Exim mail server

/var/log/exim_mainlog
/var/log/exim_paniclog
/var/log/exim_rejectlog

Courier-IMAP

/var/log/maillog

cPanel control panel

/usr/local/cpanel/logs/error_log
/usr/local/cpanel/logs/access_log
/usr/local/cpanel/logs/license_log
/usr/local/cpanel/logs/login_log
/usr/local/cpanel/logs/stats_log

FTP server

/var/log/messages
/var/log/xferlog

System logs

/var/log/messages
/var/log/boot.log
/var/log/cron
/var/log/dmesg

Security logs

/var/log/secure
/var/log/messages

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NOTE: These are the logs that one can find if you have a dedicated hosting server, for most other affordable web hosting packages, you wouldn’t get the required permissions of the server

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This post was written by admin on November 8, 2010

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Basic Requirements for integrating applications within cPanel WHM

cpanel_whm_logo Basic Requirements for integrating applications within cPanel WHM

There are various occasions when help is required with the integration of various offerings with cPanel control panel. Various enterprises and users are usually keen to explore the scope for integrating their products or services with cPanel/WHM. Below are few simple steps that can help you integrate applications with cPanel WHM.

A simple plugin design has been used to carry out the integration process. Such plugin encompass a list of items that are related to the applications that you wish to integrate with cPanel WHM. Generally, the list of items are nothing but the bundles with an installation and uninstallation application for assisting the deployment process. You can choose if you wish to have a link in the interface to a resource which is on a distant server or maybe a collection of codes which extends cPanel’s APIs along with standalone applications running in a cPanel/WHM execution environment.

Integrating with cPanel:

Before proceeding, one might want to go through the cPanel Install File Generator. This is nothing but a web-based application which would enable you to generate a cpanel plugin file, also, it holds the capability of answering some of your queries.

Integrating with WHM:

Inorder, to do this, you are required to write a CGI plugin script which has some special comments holds the capability of controlling the plugins display within the WHM interface. With this script, you can redirect users to any external source or an internal source in PHP.

License for Developers

For developers who wish to further enhance the product, cPanel offers license for integration development. There are some criteria ’s as well, which are : Developers are required to install cPanel on its supported platform and must have a static IP.

Linux- Cheap VPS Hosting packages come equipped with WHM/cPanel.

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This post was written by admin on October 28, 2010

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