cPanel DNS Only to Full cPanel

A clean cPanel install on a fresh, minimal OS installation is highly recommended and is the only supported method; attempting to convert an existing system is not supported and attempting to do so would be performed at one's own risk.

I cannot guarantee this will work, but I would first ensure the system has a cPanel license provisioned, otherwise the attempted process is not at all a possibility. Second, I would manually edit the cPanel update configuration file to look for the proper build tree; following this, I would perform a forced cPanel update (upcp) via root SSH access.

Here is the path to the cPanel update configuration file:

Code:

/etc/cpupdate.conf

For the contents of the aforementioned file, here is an example of the difference between a cPanel system and that of a cPanel DNSONLY system:

• A cPanel system:
  
  Code:

  CPANEL=release

• A cPanel DNSONLY system:
  
  Code:

  CPANEL=dnsonly

MOD EDIT:

For anyone coming to this thread, please note it was written in 2010. Information on this topic with updated instructions is now available at:

How to Convert a cPanel & WHM Server into a cPanel DNSONLY Server

Thanks.