As a developer, it is important to understand who you are developing for. When developing an application for cPanel & WHM servers, there are 5 potential customer profiles to be aware of: Data centers Developers Website owners System administrators Hosting providers Understanding these profiles will help you scope and define a project. In this article, we will focus on Data centers and the various problems you might encounter when working with them. …
In cPanel & WHM 11.30, we added the ability to add 3rd party systems to your DNS cluster. With this ability, we added functionality that allows you to create dnsadmin plugins. You can use these plugins to control and configure remote nodes of your DNS cluster. The plugins themselves consist of a few Perl modules. Creating a dnsadmin plugin will require some familiarity with Perl. To begin building a dnsadmin plugin, please read the documentation. …
While Rails 3 and mod_rails (aka Phusion Passenger) are not yet supported with cPanel, it is possible in 30 minutes or less to install Rails 3.0.9, install mod_rails and get a working application using mod_rails in place of mongrel. …
We are pleased to announce that our PublicAPI PHP client is ready! This API query client is the sibling to Cpanel::PublicAPI that was announced last month. You can download the PublicAPI PHP client at our github repository as well as the new cPanel PEAR channel. One of the key distinctions of the PublicAPI PHP client class is that it’s distributed as part of the cPanel PHP Library. The cPanel PHP library is a collection …
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are fundamental to the cPanel & WHM product. APIs allow developers to perform actions (functions) that source and manipulate data related to cPanel accounts and system utilities. Our APIs are used by the cPanel developers when designing new features and interfaces but are also available to 3rd-party developers. In this post, we’ll review the various APIs associated with cPanel and WHM and how you can use them in your own development. …
Today I posted cPanel::PublicAPI to github. This is a set of perl modules that allows for easy access into cPanel’s APIs from a simple object interface. This module offers several great features: Auto-detection of credentials (when available) Support for cPanel’s DNS Clustering API Support for: cPanel, WHM, webmail and non-cPanel services. Minimal dependencies BSD Licensed To get started, you can install cPanel::PublicAPI via CPAN the source is also available on our github repository if you wish to …
The release of cPanel & WHM version 11.30 in EDGE is right around the corner. With this release we have made numerous changes, added a few features and fixed some bugs. Predominantly, these changes can be encompassed in a few bullet points: Complete rewrite of update system Addition of Cpanel::PublicAPI Removal of Legacy Themes Several new API calls Though each of these changes may seem small when listed as bullet points, there are a few …
A while back, Matt Dees blogged about our upcoming change to LivePHP in 11.28. Specifically, he mentions the use of JSON. In this article I will illustrate, in brief, why this change was made. The decision process, as you’ll see, wasn’t exactly straight forward, but a solid compromise. …
I look at a lot of applicants here at cPanel and have some tips for would be job seekers. Many of these tips are generic and could help you get a job anywhere, but all of them will help you get a job here. Choose your resume format carefully. You worked hard to make your resume look the way you want it to; the format you send it in will ensure it looks that way …
You’ve taken the plunge and installed Ruby on your cPanel system using our /scripts/installruby command. Now, you are preparing to run Rails applications to step into the Web 2.0 world. This guide will cover some of the common issues that might prevent your application from working. …