Evaluating Cpanel : dns, backup, custom httpd.conf etc

[robert.mena]

Hi,

I am evaluating cpanel and other hosting solutions. So I came up with a list of features and try to do in all in order to better decide which one should I buy.

So far I ended with the following unsolved questions:
a) How do I customize the template of the created DNS zone?
b) how does the backup work for MySQL? Does it perform a mysqldump?
c) I'd like to disable a few statistics from the home page of the user. I've tried the feature manager with no luck.
d) how do I disable perl? A common security problem the user uploads a perl script (or even via a xoomps, joomla, drupal etc failure) so I starts scanning the HD and replacing files...
e) How do I change the default webpage when I access the regular http://cpanel.mydomain.com?
f) How can I disable the DNS to perform recursive queries for not local domains?
g) How do I disable directory listing in httpd.conf?
e) How do I specify the default language for an account so when he/she logs in it is already in that language.

Regards.

 

[cPanelDavidG]

Hi,

I am evaluating cpanel and other hosting solutions. So I came up with a list of features and try to do in all in order to better decide which one should I buy.

So far I ended with the following unsolved questions:

Keep in mind that since this is a community forum, my answers here will be a bit more terse than they would be if you had submitted a sales/pre-sales inquiry to Support & Customer Service | cPanel, Inc. - so if you need further clarification and explanation, please drop me an email at that address.

a) How do I customize the template of the created DNS zone?

To edit a zone, WHM -> DNS Functions -> Edit DNS Zone.

To edit a template, WHM -> DNS Functions -> Edit Zone Templates

b) how does the backup work for MySQL? Does it perform a mysqldump?

Depends on the backup. For hosting account owners, yes, it's essentially a SQL dump. For server backups, it's a copying of the contents of /var/mysql

c) I'd like to disable a few statistics from the home page of the user. I've tried the feature manager with no luck.

If you are talking about the statistics on the left sidebar, those can be removed with the branding editor if you desire.

d) how do I disable perl? A common security problem the user uploads a perl script (or even via a xoomps, joomla, drupal etc failure) so I starts scanning the HD and replacing files...

cPanel/WHM is programmed in Perl so disabling it system wide is not a good idea. I'd recommend running SuExec (and for PHP: SuPHP) so user scripts run as the user thus they are limited by user permissions. Upon installation, cPanel/WHM will run /scripts/securetmp to secure your /tmp directory.

e) How do I change the default webpage when I access the regular http://cpanel.mydomain.com?

What precisely do you mean? Do you mean branding the cPanel interface?

f) How can I disable the DNS to perform recursive queries for not local domains?

If I read your question correctly, you want to disable DNS Recursion? Just submit a support ticket and one of our support staff members can do that for you. I hear it's a quick modification.

g) How do I disable directory listing in httpd.conf?

You can insert custom httpd.conf directives via the WHM interface via WHM -> Service Configuration -> Apache Setup

e) How do I specify the default language for an account so when he/she logs in it is already in that language.

Regards.

Creating a .lang file in the skeleton directory as described here handles this.