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

[RandyTHQ]

thanks this is very useful

[immu]

TFS - HelpfuL!

[ceekeigh]

Thanks for this.

[JamesVaporH]

All of that is useless steps.

/scripts/upcp --force

Is all you need to do the yum part has nothing to do with cpanel as cpanel forces all yum installs. The mail and mysql is reinstalled also via the upcp force install.

[Bharat]

All of that is useless steps.

/scripts/upcp --force

Is all you need to do the yum part has nothing to do with cpanel as cpanel forces all yum installs. The mail and mysql is reinstalled also via the upcp force install.

Useless in what way ?