Author Archives: cPanel
Joining in on the Historic Launch of New TLDs
Guest Blog by Chris Sheridan, Vice President of Business Development for eNom I am truly excited to let the cPanel community know that we have been working in partnership with the cPanel team to build a new TLD module that … Continue reading
Create Custom cPanel Modules
Nearly all cPanel actions are governed by cPanel API1 and API2 functions. For your application, instead of creating your own API from scratch, we’re created the ability to add your application’s logic to the cPanel XML/JSON API. Essentially speaking, your … Continue reading
Test it in the User Interface
After spending time in the Developer section of the cPanel Community Forums, we’ve found a commonly asked question: “Why won’t my script work with XYZ function using the XML/JSON-API?” Rewinding a bit, the purpose of the XML/JSON API is to … Continue reading
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Making your script work with security tokens in cPanel & WHM
What is a security token? “Security token” URLs were added in cPanel & WHM 11.25 as a security measure, and they were enabled by default in version 11.28. They help combat a common type of attack called a Cross-Site Request … Continue reading
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Preview of the new Logaholic website analytics feature.
Logaholic is a new feature that is now available in the the 11.31.1 EDGE build. Logaholic is a web site statistics program that provides you with a visual representation of your web site visitors. Logaholic is a powerful web analytics (log … Continue reading
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LivePHP
Currently, if you want to write a Plugin for cPanel, you can write it in either LivePHP or cPPHP. Last year, we put some major effort into refactoring LivePHP. We added better debugging information, optimized the socket communication protocol, and … Continue reading
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Why you should use RPMs to distribute your application
As a developer, it is important to understand who you are developing for. When developing an application for cPanel & WHM servers, there are 5 potential customer profiles to be aware of: Data centers Developers Website owners System administrators Hosting … Continue reading
Spotlight On: Creating DNS Modules
In cPanel & WHM 11.30, we added the ability to add 3rd party systems to your DNS cluster. With this ability, we added functionality that allows you to create dnsadmin plugins. You can use these plugins to control and configure … Continue reading
Installing mod_rails and Rails 3.0.9 on a cPanel machine
While Rails 3 and mod_rails (aka Phusion Passenger) are not yet supported with cPanel, it is possible in 30 minutes or less to install Rails 3.0.9, install mod_rails and get a working application using mod_rails in place of mongrel. Continue reading
BETA Release of PublicAPI PHP, the cPanel PHP Library, and cPanel PEAR
We are pleased to announce that our PublicAPI PHP client is ready! This API query client is the sibling to Cpanel::PublicAPI that was announced last month. You can download the PublicAPI PHP client at our github repository as well as … Continue reading
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