How to Enable or Disable Mod Security in cPanel?

Is your IP frequently blocked when you access a wordpress admin area or any type of script with a web browser? Are you left with the feeling that your IP is blocked or that the server is down or isn"™t working?

If the answer is "Yes", then it may have happened as a result of Mod Security.

What is Mod Security?
ModSecurity is a module which protects your website from various types of attacks. Mod Security protects our website from hackers, attacks, a brute force attack, a cross-site request forgery(CSRF) and many other threats. Although it sometimes creates a problem, we do not recommend you to disable it but instead fix your software vulnerability. The reason for this is that ModSecurity only blocks your website if your software security is bad.

Disabling ModSecurity can help you determine whether your IP or your client/visitor"™s IP is blocked by ModSecurity. If it isn"™t the case, however, it means that your IP is blocked for a different reason. However, if you are sure that ModSecurity is the reason your IP is blocked, then contact us and we will find the exact reason behind it, in order to resolve your issue so that you will not be required to disable the module.

How to Enable or Disable Mod Security in cPanel?
1. Log into your cPanel account.
2. In the "Security" section, click on the "ModSecurity" Icon.
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Question 2

How to check disk usage of directory and bandwidth usage?

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How to check disk usage of directory and bandwidth usage?

If you are receiving a disk space usage warning and don't know which folder is using too much space from cPanel.

1. Log into your cPanel account.
2. In the "Files" section, click on "Disk Space Usage" Icon.
3. In Disk Space Usage area you can see which folder/directory is using too much space and you can even check the disk usage of MySQL.

How to check Bandwidth Usage?
1. In the "Metrics" section, click on "Bandwidth" Icon.

2. Now you can see bandwidth usage of your domain.

How to check the usage of bandwidth, email accounts, mysql, etc from a single place?
1. Go to your cPanel's main page.
2. On the left side of the cPanel, click on the "Statistics" icon. It will show the total bandwidth usage, mysql, email account limit, etc.

Question 3

How to update your cPanel Contact Information or receive a notification on reaching quota limit?

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How to update your cPanel Contact Information or receive a notification on reaching quota limit?

If you want to receive notification on reaching your disk quota, bandwidth usage limit, reaching email disk quota or want to update your cPanel contact information, follow these steps.

1. Log into your cPanel account.
2. In the "Preferences" section, click on "Contact Information" Icon.
3. You should see an input box under the line that says "This is an email address at which the system can contact you. This should be an email address that is not on your account." This should be an email address that is not on your account if you have one. Update your existing email address or add your secondary email address in the second email input box.

4. Click on the "Save" button.

Question 4

How to enable boxtrapper in cPanel?

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How to enable boxtrapper in cPanel?

BoxTrapper requires all email senders who are not on your whitelist to reply to a verification email before you receive their mail. This protects your inbox from spam.

If you want to get rid of unwanted emails then you can enable this on all your emails or only on selected emails and you need to configure BoxTrapper.

1. Login to your cPanel Account,

2. In the "Email" section, click on "BoxTrapper" Icon.
under "Status" tab. Click on the "Manage" Link.

4. On the BoxTrapper Manage Page, if the current status is "Disabled", click on the "Enable" button.

Question 5

How to Set the PHP Version per Folder?

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How to Set the PHP Version per Folder?

Do you have a single domain or wish to use ° different PHP version per folder? Do you have an installed PHP 5.x software in a folder/blog and want to use a PHP 7.x instead? If so, you can do this using cPanel and the .htaccess file.

1. Log into your cPanel account.
2. In the "Software" section, click on the "MultiPHP Manager" icon.

3. Assume that we are new to this and the first thing we will need to do is to get the code generated by cPanel.

4. Scroll down to the end of page, select your domain from the left side and you will see the option "PHP Version" with a drop-down list on the right side. Select the appropriate PHP version from the drop-down menu and click the Apply button.

5. Now open the /public_html/.htaccess file in the cPanel File Manager or in your FTP client and you will find the code generated by cPanel.

6. After you copy the code, you will wish to set the PHP version to version 7 in the folder/forum, which means you will need to create a .htaccess file in the folder /forum/ and paste the code which was generat

Question 6

How to Delete Account Level/Global Email Filter in cPanel?

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How to Delete Account Level/Global Email Filter in cPanel?

1. Open "Account-Level Filtering" in your cPanel Account.

2. Under "Current Filters" you can see all of your existing filters. Click on "Delete" next to the appropriate filter name.

3. Click on the "Delete" button.

4. Now click on the "Delete Filter" button to remove your filter.

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