ANN: cPanel Proxy - for people behind strict firewalls

[myplacedk]

I have seen many questions about how to access cPanel (including webmail and WHM) on port 80, if you are behind a strict firewall that doesn't allow access to the ports used by cPanel.

cPanel Proxy is a PHP-script that works by listening on port 80, and forward traffic to cPanel.

So far I've only found two problems: HTTPS is not supported, and file upload isn't supported yet.

You can download the script from here: http://myplace.dk/php/cpanelproxy/

 

[mickeymouse]

Dear myplacedk,

This seems to be a useful suggestion. Many will definitely find this useful.

Regards,

 

[myplacedk]

New release, file upload is now supported.

Next issue is performance. I have several places in the script made suggestions for performance improvements.
I (or somebody else *hint*) just need study it a little.

 

[Solokron]

Very useful. I will give it a shot!

 

[anand]

Originally posted by myplacedk
I have seen many questions about how to access cPanel (including webmail and WHM) on port 80, if you are behind a strict firewall that doesn't allow access to the ports used by cPanel.

cPanel Proxy is a PHP-script that works by listening on port 80, and forward traffic to cPanel.

So far I've only found two problems: HTTPS is not supported, and file upload isn't supported yet.

You can download the script from here: http://myplace.dk/php/cpanelproxy/

real nice work dude.

 

[chican0]

I have been trying to get this to work as the instructions say but for some reason it just doenst want to work for me. It keeps prompting me for the username and password until it errors out.

Is there a certain format to input the username and password or is my system just broken.

 

[myplacedk]

The format is exactly the same, as if you logged on directly to cPanel.

If you trust me enough, you can send me your username, password and hostname for your cPanel, then I cna probably find the problem for you.

I wouldn't trust a stranger that much. If you do, please remember to send me the info in private. ;-)

 

[Devil Inside]

Anyone get this to work with horde?

When I try loggin into horde it just keeps showing the login screen.

 

[Solokron]

Anyone get this working with phpsuexec?

 

[elleryjh]

It works great for me - cpanel, horde, phpmyemail, everything! (I am using phpsuexec. That shouldn't make a difference) I'm using it as my main interface for all cutomers and have modified it so that it uses a friendly and good-looking login interface, cookies, plus a top frame branded with my company logo and a logout button. And a great feature - remembers peoples' favorite webmail program!

 

[Solokron]

It works great on non-phpsuexec servers of ours. It is unable to pass the information on the phpsuexec ones though.

Originally posted by elleryjh
It works great for me - cpanel, horde, phpmyemail, everything! (I am using phpsuexec. That shouldn't make a difference) I'm using it as my main interface for all cutomers and have modified it so that it uses a friendly and good-looking login interface, cookies, plus a top frame branded with my company logo and a logout button. And a great feature - remembers peoples' favorite webmail program!

 

[chican0]

That must be the reason why I can not get this to work on my server. I have phpsuexec enabled.

 

[icanectc]

Does not work for me using PhpSuexec wont pass the username and/or password.

 

[Solokron]

Is there a way to create a form to pass the information instead of the pop-up?

 

[myplacedk]

The login problems is solved in the new version (0.4), it now works with php suexec.

There is also an Auto Installer for easier installation and upgrades.

Grab it while it's hot!

http://myplace.dk/php/cpanelproxy/

 

[chican0]

Awsome! The autoinstaller worked like a charm. Great work.

Only thing I noticed which might or might not be a bug is the "Try it now" link on the autoinstaller page. The URLs which it linked to were, http://webmail.domain.com/webmail/ which did not work. It would instead try to redirect to http://webmail.domain.com:2095/. If I manually changed it to http://webmail.domain.com/, it was all fine. This applies to webmail, cpanel, and whm.

Again, Thank you very much for the bug fixes. I was paying for a proxy service at proxifier.com.

I still have to enable phpsuexec and see how that works. I will report back on that later on.

 

[myplacedk]

Originally posted by chican0
Only thing I noticed which might or might not be a bug is the "Try it now" link on the autoinstaller page. The URLs which it linked to were, http://webmail.domain.com/webmail/ which did not work. It would instead try to redirect to http://webmail.domain.com:2095/. If I manually changed it to http://webmail.domain.com/, it was all fine.

Thank you for telling me. My mistake, it's fixed now.

I'm glad you like my work.

 

[jamesbond]

I installed the newest version and it works very well

One question about https, will this ever be supported? Or is it somehow impossible/difficult to implement?

 

[myplacedk]

Originally posted by jamesbond
One question about https, will this ever be supported? Or is it somehow impossible/difficult to implement?

I haven't tried, but maybe it works as it is now. But you will need to install cPanel Proxy so it can be reached by https, and most users can't do that.

If you (or anyone else) have tried, you are welcome to contact me (niels (a) myplace dot dk). If it didn't work for you, I may be able to make it work.

 

[jamesbond]

I could set up a SSL cert on a seperate IP to try it, but I would like to use the server SSL cert.

What about installing the proxy in /usr/local/apache/htdocs ?

For example for webmail I could create a subdirectory /mail

So if I upload the files to /usr/local/apache/htdocs/mail and access https://www.anydomainonserver.com/mail it should access the proxy located in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/mail

Does this make any sense?

I'm not sure what modifications are needed in the script though to make this work.

I'll take a look at it tomorrow.