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

- Mail

- 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.