Usefull cPanel / WHM hidden Commands

Ever locked yourself out of your Server while making some iptables changes?  What about when you change your SSH port and then forget what you set it to?
These are common support tickets we receive at RSHosting. In many cases this is something our customer’s can fix on their own if they are using cPanel on thier VPS/Server.

cPanel comes with a number of “hidden” autofix commands that allow for administrators to fix common problems simply be logging into WHM and going to a special URL. Two of the most useful ones I’ve seen are flushing iptables and restarting SSH in “safe mode” (basically the default settings and port).

Flushing iptables rules

https://yourdomain.com:2087/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=iptablesflush

Restart SSH in safe mode

https://yourdomain.com:2087/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=safesshrestart

Once you hit the URL you will be prompted to log in. Simply enter your root password and cPanel will do the rest. These have definitely saved me on more than one occasion when my attempt to ’secure’ my server worked a little too well.  Remember that if you happen to also lock yourself out of WHM through iptables, you will not be able to hit the URL’s I mentioned.  In that case, contact support.
Other useful commands as well:

Reset the Firewall Settings

https://yourdomain.com:2087/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=iptablesflush

Reset the SSH Settings

https://yourdomain.com:2087/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=safesshrestart

bsdbindfix

https://yourdomain.com:2087/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=bsdbindfix

Autorepair

https://yourdomain.com:2087/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=autorepair

Compress Zlib  

https://yourdomain.com:2087/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=Compress-Zlib-1.42.tar.gz

Compresszlibfix

https://yourdomain.com:2087/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=compresszlibfix

dbdmysql

https://yourdomain.com:2087/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=dbdmysql

Cooldiagnose_apache_conf

https://yourdomain.com:2087/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=diagnose_apache_conf

fpindexfile

https://yourdomain.com:2087/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=fpindexfile

libxml2-2.6.28.tar.gz

https://yourdomain.com:2087/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=libxml2-2.6.28.tar.gz

libxml64fix

https://yourdomain.com:2087/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=libxml64fix

pro*

https://yourdomain.com:2087/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=pro*

spamd_dbm_fix

https://yourdomain.com:2087/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=spamd_dbm_fix

test

https://yourdomain.com:2087/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=test

vfilterfix

https://yourdomain.com:2087/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=vfilterfix

yumduprpmfix

https://yourdomain.com:2087/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=yumduprpmfix

resellerresourceacctounts

https://yourdomain.com:2087/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=resellerresourceacctounts

horde_sqmail_current_fix

https://yourdomain.com:2087/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=horde_sqmail_current_fix