Comments on: WHM -Installation guide http://devoracles.com/whm-installation-guide/671 Sun, 30 May 2010 16:16:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: methode http://devoracles.com/whm-installation-guide/671/comment-page-1#comment-580 methode Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:53:40 +0000 http://devoracles.com/?p=671#comment-580 Hello David, Nice to see you here. On the subject and to be sincere, i never managed (yet) to login on port 2086 and am really not sure why. Anyway, I will update the entry with your info about the ports. thanks for the clarification. Appreciated. For those who don't know: David Grega is member of the cPanel team, and if am not mistaken his job is Sales support. Hello David,

Nice to see you here.

On the subject and to be sincere, i never managed (yet) to login on port 2086 and am really not sure why. Anyway, I will update the entry with your info about the ports. thanks for the clarification. Appreciated.

For those who don’t know: David Grega is member of the cPanel team, and if am not mistaken his job is Sales support.

]]> By: David Grega http://devoracles.com/whm-installation-guide/671/comment-page-1#comment-579 David Grega Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:41:19 +0000 http://devoracles.com/?p=671#comment-579 Just a clarification, port 2086 is used for plain-text HTTP connections to WHM (e.g. http://server:2086). However, port 2087 is used for encrypted HTTPS connections to WHM (https://server:2087). Using HTTPS is strongly recommended as this will ensure passwords are encrypted when sent to your server for logging in. Depending on how you wish to set up your server, a common tactic to avoid having to use the root login every time you wish to use WHM is to create a dummy cPanel account for a domain you know you'll never be hosting (e.g. example.com). Then you go to the Reseller Center in WHM and add root-level privileges to this user. You now have a user that has full access to WHM alleviating the need to login to WHM as root all the time. This user has no sudo privileges (unless you manually add them as a wheel user, of course), so this is generally viewed as a safe practice. Just a clarification, port 2086 is used for plain-text HTTP connections to WHM (e.g. http://server:2086). However, port 2087 is used for encrypted HTTPS connections to WHM (https://server:2087). Using HTTPS is strongly recommended as this will ensure passwords are encrypted when sent to your server for logging in.

Depending on how you wish to set up your server, a common tactic to avoid having to use the root login every time you wish to use WHM is to create a dummy cPanel account for a domain you know you’ll never be hosting (e.g. example.com). Then you go to the Reseller Center in WHM and add root-level privileges to this user. You now have a user that has full access to WHM alleviating the need to login to WHM as root all the time. This user has no sudo privileges (unless you manually add them as a wheel user, of course), so this is generally viewed as a safe practice.

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