Cpanel branding

[jmc67]

The new stable release has the option of cpanel branding. After updating cpanel , the default cpanel image is broken and even if I
upload an image to the cpanelbranding folder that is also broken. Any one else tried this?

 

[trakwebster]

I *think* I had the same experience.

If you are talking about 'BlueLagoon', the very first thing that appears at the top of the frame is the buttons for 'Home' etc. There is nothing above these buttons.

When I enabled branding on the new stable release 97, it gave me a few paragraphs of text, including how to use BlueLagoon as an example. I tried it, but see neither my image (cp.gif) nor any cpanel image at the top of the BlueLagoon display.

I noticed that the 'branding' option also created folders in my reseller account for 'default' and 'iconic'. I threw the image into these folders as well, but nothing changed onscreen for these themes -- they still show the cpanel logo as before.

 

[YukFoo]

Same experience here, branding is currently a dud.

It'd also be nice if we could enable or disable this per reseller. Like I'd like to charge a reseller say, $10 bucks for the setup.

 

[jmc67]

I did the same thing you did trakwebster. However the only thing on the top left in bluelagoon is a broken image.

 

[rbmatt]

Nope, this feature does not work for us either.

 

[ukhost]

Erm, Is it just me or do you guys get the following message if your accessing from as the servers root user:

"Sorry, cPanel branding is only for resellers!"

Surely the root user should be able to use this feature too?!?

Kind Regards,

Neil

 

[rbmatt]

Well, the way branding works (or is supposed to) is that it gets the files from /home/username. Since there is no /home/root, it would not work this way. I guess they figure root would be able to clone a theme and brand it themselves.

 

[ukhost]

Well I suppose I could just clone and brand myself.

Was just looking at the option and thought is was odd!

Kind Regards,

Neil

 

[jmc67]

I changed this so that it shows the default logo in bluelagoon

pico /usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/bluelagoon/stdheader.html


Changed
<img src="<cpanel branding="image(cp)">">
<!--<!img src="<cpanel printvar="dprefix">cp.gif">-->


to
<img src="<cpanel printvar="dprefix">cp.gif">

Until they fix this.

 

[rbmatt]

Well, there were 12 updates Saturday... 1 Sunday... none today... How long will he have to wait?
Has anyone thought of a workaround?
I almost thought of making a module for it... but by the time I finish, it will be fixed!

 

[YukFoo]

Just tried it and it's still not working.

 

[Tom Pyles]

I did nothing to play with our branding but now the CPanel logo is showing as a broken image in our clients cpanel. Tonight, I decided to play with it, but I get the following message (as Neil pointed out)

Sorry, cPanel branding is only for resellers!

 

[Website Rob]

It will be a long time before this is fixed.

I don't know why DarkOrb insists on bringing out broken features, but this is another one of them. Due to the way the coding is done, the "Branding" feature requires a lot more work before it will work properly.

Best bet for now is to ignore it and change the file mentioned above by jmc67. You don't have to remove anything though, just re-arrange the Comment code.

Use Vi or Pico and change this file:
# /usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/bluelagoon/stdheader.html

Change
<img src="<cpanel branding="image(cp)">">
<!--<img src="<cpanel printvar="dprefix">cp.gif">-->

To
<!-- <img src="<cpanel branding="image(cp)">"> -->
<img src="<cpanel printvar="dprefix">cp.gif">

 

[rbmatt]

Well, this functionality is kinda there already....
I was hoping CPanel would have a nice innovative new way, but here's what you can do.
<cpanel ExampleModule="printfile(/home/username/cpanelbranding/logo.txt)">
And in logo.txt, have <img src=http://domain.com/logo.gif>
Or, you can put plain text (in html).
Just make sure to use the full path (with the http://) because otherwise it will try to call it from the /frontend/ directory

 

[cPanelNick]

The problem was that the feature wasn't included/turned on. This has been corrected in EDGE build 107, RELEASE build 108, and STABLE build 109.

 

[Tom Pyles]

I'm running Edge 107 and still getting 'Sorry, cPanel branding is only for resellers!' This is my server WHM...I have not tried any resellers WHM's yet.

 

[Website Rob]

Actually, that msg. is correct. Due to the way WHM/Cpanel is setup there are basically, two kinds of accounts; Reseller & Client. Only Reseller accounts have the option to do Branding and thus, will only be available from within a Reseller WHM.

 

[Tom Pyles]

Thanks for the reply Rob. I was looking for an *easy* way to take care of branding in our own accounts. I assume that it would work if our accounts were owned by us and not root.

 

[Website Rob]

Your welcome, Tom. I'm presuming it's a built-in security feature.

Just as one should always log into the Server under a Shell account and then switch to root, not having accounts owned by 'root', but a Reseller instead, also gives one more level of security. Once the Reseller account is setup for your own Clients and/or your own use, it's pretty easy to maintain after that.

Also makes it easy when providing anonymous Reseller packages.

 

[rwdcsi]

I have stable 109 and it is still broken.

I had copy the desired logo into /usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/bluelagoon/branding/cp.gif
to get it displayed.

Very nice feature and looking forward to correct functionality.