WHM 11 services series

An overview of the important services that keep your WHM server running

Services are crucial to any web server's operation. To the end-user, these programs work together seamlessly to provide…

How to access phpMyAdmin from WHM

phpMyAdmin is a widely-used database tool that happens to come with all cPanel and WHM installations. You can access…

How to access your WHM server's bandwidth monitoring system (bandmin)

Bandmin is a bandwidth monitoring system installed by default on Linux cPanel/WHM servers. It will not function on…

How to add MySQL access hosts in WHM

When granting a MySQL user access to a database, you have to specify which hosts are allowed to log in as that user.…

How to change the bandmin username and password in WHM

Bandmin is a bandwidth monitoring system installed by default on Linux cPanel/WHM servers. It will not function on…

How to change the root MySQL password in WHM

When cPanel/WHM is set up, your system MySQL password is randomly generated. If you ever need it, you can change it to…

How to choose and configure your FTP server in WHM

An FTP server provides your clients with the means to upload files to their accounts. FTP is generally a more…

How to choose which nameserver to use in WHM

During the Initial Setup of WHM, you should have been given the option to change your system's nameserver program. This…

How to configure Apache web server in WHM

Apache web server is the most important part of your WHM server. It's the program that allows visitors to view your…

How to configure PHP from within WHM

At some point in time, you'll probably need to adjust PHP's configuration options. Instead of manually editing the…

How to configure your incoming mail server in WHM (POP3/IMAP)

WHM provides you with a choice of two incoming mail servers, both of which support the POP3 & IMAP protocols. 1)…

How to configure your outgoing mail server in WHM (SMTP)

Having a secure SMTP server is very important. If your server is insecure, it's very likely to be exploited by spammers…

How to edit the DNS zone templates in WHM

WHM allows you to edit the templates it uses when generating DNS zones for domains. You shouldn't need to do that,…

How to manage DNS zones in WHM

All the information about a domain -- its hosts, nameservers, subdomains, mailservers, et cetera -- is stored in what's…

How to manage MySQL user passwords in WHM

There's a page in WHM that allows you to manage all the MySQL passwords on your system. This is useful because you…

How to manage the SSL certificates used by your services in WHM

Whenever you, your clients, or their visitors access a service through an encrypted connection (such as with HTTPS or…

How to manage the mail queue in WHM

When an e-mail is undeliverable, for any number of reasons, it can get stuck in a queue. Occasionally, stuck messages…

How to park a domain in WHM

A parked domain is a domain name that sits on top of another, serving the same website to a client's browser. They're…

How to perform a DNS cleanup in WHM

In WHM, there is a tool called DNS Cleanup. This tool will clean up the nameserver configuration file and remove any…

How to rebuild Apache and PHP in WHM

At some point in time, you're probably going to have to recompile Apache and PHP. This is necessary any time you wish…

How to repair a MySQL database in WHM

Occasionally, a MySQL database can become corrupted. This can be fixed from a number of places, including cPanel,…

How to repair mailbox permissions in WHM

Occasionally, mailboxes on your server can become corrupted or have incorrect permissions, resulting in mail being…

How to restart a service in WHM

In the event you need to restart a service manually, WHM does provide you with the tools to do so for most of the…

How to see details in WHM about the processes currently in use by MySQL

If you've noticed that MySQL seems to be responding sluggishly, one of your users may be running something that's…

How to set up and edit domain forwarding in WHM

Domain forwarding in WHM serves a similar purpose to Redirects in cPanel. 1) Go to DNS Functions. 2) Choose…

How to set which services are enabled and monitored by WHM

Your system's services are typically all started automatically when a server boots up. In addition, WHM has a…

How to set your WHM server to use a remote MySQL server

If your users will be running database-heavy applications, or if you have many servers, perhaps you'd like to…

How to synchronize FTP passwords in WHM

From time to time, you or or your clients may have trouble connecting to your server via FTP. The passwords can become…

How to use the Mail Troubleshooter in WHM

In this tutorial, you will learn how to find out why mail cannot be sent to a particular e-mail address. You'll also…

How to view statistics regarding the mail that's passed through your WHM server

To prevent spam from being sent through your server, one of the things you need to do is keep a watchful eye on your…

How to view the Apache Status page in WHM

The Apache Status page in WHM contains several useful bits of information about your system's web server. 1) It can be…

How to view the status of all the services WHM monitors

If you watched the previous tutorial, you've seen how to tell WHM which services to monitor. Now, let's view the status…

How to view the top e-mail relayers on your server in WHM

In addition to keeping an eye on your server's mail statistics, you should also pay attention to the Top E-Mail…