Category Archives: Programming

Chromatic cPanel Login theme

Today I am releasing Chromatic, a unique cPanel login theme that VlexoFree members have gotten use to now, free to the public. I have licensed it under GPLv3 so you’re free to do what you wish with it. Chromatic is fully XHTML 1.1 and CSS3 valid. The theme uses no images (except for the favicon) and [...]

How to use PECL with /tmp mounted with “noexec”

The situation here is that you run a server and when trying to install a PHP module via PECL you receive the “checking whether the C compiler works… configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.” error followed by the build failing. The problem is that PECL is trying to write and run the files its [...]

Automatically install DomainKeys on new accounts in cPanel

DomainKeys is an e-mail authentication system designed to verify the DNS domain of an e-mail sender and the message integrity. cPanel supports this but the feature is disabled by default on new accounts. If you want to make it easy on your users and enable this automatically you just need to add a few lines [...]

Automatically exclude backing up new accounts in cPanel

cPanel is setup so is that if automatic backups are enabled in WHM then every new account will be added to the backup list. If you’re picky about which accounts you want the be backed up and don’t want to manually exclude the accounts upon creation, you can use this method. What the following code does is writes [...]