How to Forcefully Reinstall cPanel

[Bharat]

There comes a time in everyone's security life you need to rebuild a cpanel server.. i'm talking about the OS, whm/cpanel and it's modules.. not websites. I wanted to document the process I use to rebuild it:

1. Force an CentOS/Redhat Reinstall by:

1. Create an empty directory: mkdir /tempreinstall
2. CD into the new empty directory: cd /tempreinstall
3. Force a Yum update: yum reinstall *
4. delete the temp empty directory

2. Force cpanel to update with:

/scripts/upcp --force

3. Force the webmail systems to update with:

Roundcube:

/usr/local/cpanel/bin/update-roundcube ?-force

Horde:

/usr/local/cpanel/bin/update-horde ?-force

Squirrelmail

/usr/local/cpanel/bin/update-squirrelmail ?-force

4. Reinstall MySQL:

/scripts/mysqlup --force

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Bharat Reviewed by Bharat on 10th Jan 2012. How to Forcefully Reinstall cPanel There comes a time in everyone's security life you need to rebuild a cpanel server.. i'm talking about the OS, whm/cpanel and it's modules.. not websites. I wanted to document the process I use to rebuild it: 1. Force an CentOS/Redhat Reinstall by: Create an empty directory: mkdir /tempreinstall CD into the new empty directory: cd /tempreinstall Force a Yum update: yum reinstall * delete the temp empty directory Rating: 5