Useful Hidden cPanel Commands
Have you ever locked yourself out of your server while making some iptables changes? What about when you change your SSH port and then forget what you set it to? These are both fairly common support requests that we receive at slhost. Fortunately, in many cases this is something our customer’s can fix on their end as long as they are using cPanel as their control panel.
cPanel comes with a number of ‘hidden’ autofix commands that allow for administrators to fix common problems simply be logging into WHM and going to a special URL. Two of the most useful ones I’ve seen are flushing iptables and restarting SSH in “safe mode” (basically the default settings and port).
Restart SSH in safe mode: http://mydomain.com:2086/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=safesshrestart
Flushingiptables rules: http://mydomain.com:2086/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=iptablesflush
