Thursday, September 30, 2010
Basic WHM preperation Notes
* Basic settings - check default theme, hostname, main shared ip, nameservers
* Resolver configurations - put in the appropriate nameserverips
* Server Time - Change to America/New York and sync.
* Tweak Settings
- Catchall account to fail- Silently Discard all FormMail-clone requests with a bcc: header in the subject line - enable
- The maximum each domain can send out per hour (0 is unlimited): 200 (0 for Dedicated servers)
- Attempt to prevent pop3 connection floods - enable
-BoxTrapper Spam Trap - disable
-Mailman - disable if on new servers (enabled for Dedicated servers)
-Neomail Webmail - disable
-Spamassassin and spam box - enable
-Mysql - Use old style (4.0) passwords - enable
-Notifications- Email users when they have their bandwidth. Disabling this will prevent all Bandwidth Limits -Email from being sent - enable
- Mail Box Usage Warnings - enable
- Disk Space Usage Warnings - enable
- Stats Programs
- Awstats Reverse Dns Resolution - enable
- Awstats Stats - enable
-Status- The load average that will cause the server status to appear red
-Allow cPanel users to install SSL Hosts if they have a dedicated ip.- disable
-Allow cPanel users to reset their password via email - enable
* Update Config - auto, auto, auto
* Hostname - Check and add
* Security Centre
- PHP open_basedir Tweak - enable
- Shell Fork Bomb Protection - enable
* Exim configuration
- Reject mail at SMTP time if the sender host is in the zen.spamhaus.org, or bl.spamcop.net rbl - enable
- Use callouts to verify existence of email sender - disable
- Reject email at SMTP time for users who have exceeded their quota rather than keeping it in the queue - enable
- Verify the existence of email senders - disable
* FTP Configuration - Pure-ftpd and disable anonymous
* Install SSL for server and whm
* Service Manager - Exim on another port - enable 26 and save
* Themes - remove old themes from backend.
* cPanel - Plugins - modsecurity
* Download and configure Fantastico (if specified in Dedicated)
* IP - check and add.
* Configure Cluster and keep it disabled till post restore.