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Disable site.com/whm and site.com/cpanel

Discussion in 'Security' started by MrAndreas, Mar 19, 2012.

  1. MrAndreas

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    i have dedicated server with 3 ip addresses and only use one dedicated ip for my website. The main ip address is used for whm is not connected to site.

    Now the question arose since i got too many notification for people trying to crack my whm password 5-20 attempts like every day now. i need to disable site.com/whm and site.com/cpanel and only being able to login to whm from the main ip address.

    E.g.
    whm - 201.220.11.59
    site.com - 201.220.11.2
    not used - 201.220.11.101

    so i wan to only be able to access whm like this: 201.220.11.59/whm

    or it can be any other trick as far as below statement is true
    when someone goes to:

    201.220.11.2/whm
    201.220.11.2:cpanel
    201.220.11.2:2087
    201.220.11.2:2083

    201.220.11.101/whm
    201.220.11.101/whm
    201.220.11.101:2087
    201.220.11.101:2083

    should lead to NOWHERE.

    Logic's behind this is that no one know about 201.220.11.59 since it does not have any website on it.

    P.S. ip is fake obviously.
    P.P.S. i would just change port of cpanel maybee if there was no /whm and /cpanel shortcut.
     
    #1 MrAndreas, Mar 19, 2012
    Last edited: Mar 19, 2012
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    You could place entries into iptables to block the cPanel and WHM ports for the other IPs on the machine (please try google searches for how to block specific ports on a specific IP).

    You could use the suggestions in this thread to remove the cpanel and whm ScriptAliasMatch lines and to change the cPanel port:

    http://forums.cpanel.net/f5/ask-rename-cpanel-whm-become-newname-226501.html#post933932

    I further mention such changes at this location:

    http://forums.cpanel.net/f185/moving-default-cpanel-whm-locations-avoid-directory-scanners-248251.html#post1037321
     
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    i commented those lines out with #

    still not getting disabled!
     
    #3 matrix4495, Mar 27, 2012
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    Did you run the following commands afterwards?

    Code:
    /usr/local/cpanel/bin/apache_conf_distiller --update
/scripts/rebuildhttpdconf
/etc/init.d/httpd restart
    Apache must be restarted in order for the urls to no longer allow the redirection. You might also want to restart cPanel (/etc/init.d/cpanel restart).

    Of note, I didn't suggest commenting out the lines in my linked replies. I suggested removing them.
     
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