How To Fix Login Issues With A New Server

This will only apply to you if you have a VPS or Dedicated server AND the cPHulk portion will only apply if you have cPanel/WHM installed.

If you have a VPS or Dedicated server without cPanel/WHM, then skip to Step 2.

I had a brand new server created for me with CentOS 7 and cPanel/WHM so that I could migrate from my older server.  They provided the initial login and password to me, but I couldn’t log in to WHM.  That’s odd, so I tried to shell in and it worked fine.

My first thought was that maybe my IP got blacklisted in cPHulk, so I checked the cPHulk database for an entry.

It turned out not to be this for me, so here’s what it was.

 

Step 1 – check cPHulk

This is how to check for cPHulk blocking you and how to remove your IP.

I was still shelled in as root, so it was just a matter of a few commands.  IMPORTANT – replace 192.168.1.1 with your actual computer’s IP address.  After you type “mysql” your prompt will either be mysql> or MariaDB> and these will work with either, but I’ll use mysql> just to simplify.

# mysql

mysql> use cphulkd

mysql> show tables;

If you see this, then you have the new version of cPHulk:

MariaDB [cphulkd]> show tables;
+——————-+
| Tables_in_cphulkd |
+——————-+
| auths                        |
| ip_lists                     |
| known_netblocks   |
| login_track              |
+——————-+

If you see tables named “brutes” and “logins”, then you have the older version.

 

Use this for the newer version of cPHulk

# /scripts/hulk-unban-ip 192.168.1.1

That’s it, so on to the next step if you still can’t log in to WHM.

 

Use this for the older version of cPHulk

mysql> select * from brutes where IP = ‘192.168.1.1’;

If your IP is found, then use this to delete it:

mysql> delete from brutes where IP = ‘192.168.1.1’;

Let’s check the logins table too:

mysql> select * from logins where IP = ‘192.168.1.1’;

If your IP is found, then use this to delete it:

mysql> delete from logins where IP = ‘192.168.1.1’;

Step 2 – check the time

I almost did a complete reinstall of cPanel, but luckily I noticed all files had 2014 as the year instead of 2016.

I was still shelled in as root, so I set the correct date: date -s ‘2016-12-14 21:02:00’

SOLUTION

It turned out that cPHulk wasn’t blocking me and that it was just the date that was way out of sync.

I was now able to log in to WHM, so I went ahead and added my IP to the cPHulk whitelist to be sure.

Here’s how to do it from the shell: /scripts/cphulkdwhitelist 192.168.1.1

 

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