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A "CONNECTION TIMED OUT" SSH issue usually indicates a firewall misconfiguration, service crash, or blocked IP address. Here are steps to resolve this issue on CloudPanel: [HR] 🔸 Step 1: Check IP Blocklist and Firewall Your IP might be blocked by the integrated firewall (UFW): If you have...

Here are the recommended security best practices to protect your CloudPanel instance, server environment, and hosted websites effectively: 🔸 CloudPanel Security Integrated Firewall (UFW) Open only required ports (22 SSH, 8443 CloudPanel) exclusively to your IP addresses. If no static IP is...

Below are the recommended best practices for migrating a PHP site (e.g., www.domain.com) to CloudPanel smoothly and safely: 🔸 Step 1: Create a PHP Site on CloudPanel Use your live domain (e.g., www.domain.com) when creating your PHP site. This ensures correct Nginx redirection from non-www to...

CloudPanel provides several helpful CLI commands that can be executed by site users via SSH. Here’s a quick reference to essential site user commands: [HR] 📌 System (File Permissions) Reset Permissions (Directories & Files): This command resets file and directory permissions recursively...

Root User Commands Cloudflare Update IPs In your site's security settings, you can enable Allow traffic from Cloudflare only. The command clpctl cloudflare:update:ips is being executed every morning at 6 AM via cron job and updates the following file: /etc/nginx/cloudflare/ips If you...

CloudPanel supports Remote Backups (off-site backups) using popular storage providers such as Amazon S3, Wasabi, DigitalOcean Spaces, Dropbox, Google Drive, Hetzner Storage Box, SFTP, and other providers compatible with Rclone. [HR] 📌 Setup Remote Backups 1. Set Instance Timezone Ensure your...

CloudPanel ships with the ionCube Loader extension included but disabled by default for performance reasons. You can easily enable it for your specific PHP version by following these steps: ⚠️ Important Note: Currently, ionCube Loader is not available for PHP 8.0. Check your PHP version...

To configure Nginx to serve your website on https://www.domain.com and redirect https://domain.com to https://www.domain.com, follow these steps: DNS Configuration: Ensure both domain.com and www.domain.com point to your server's IP address in your DNS settings. Nginx Configuration: Open...

CloudPanel provides several built-in security features that can help protect your site: 🔸 IP Blocking To block specific IP addresses: Navigate to Security → Click on "Add IP". Enter the IP address in IPv4 or IPv6 format: Example IPv4: 8.8.8.8 Example IPv6: 2400:6180:100:d0::99b:5001 Click...

CloudPanel provides straightforward tools for managing your databases: 📌 Creating a Database: Click on "Add Database". Enter your Database Name, Database User Name, and Password. Click "Add Database". 📌 Deleting a Database: Click on "Delete" next to the database. Confirm the action. 📌...

By default, CloudPanel generates a self-signed SSL certificate when you first set up your site. However, a self-signed certificate is not suitable for public websites because browsers will display security warnings. Recommended options for SSL/TLS certificates: 1. Let's Encrypt (Free) You can...

CloudPanel intentionally doesn't provide email hosting due to performance reasons. Our goal is to keep CloudPanel lightweight, clean, and highly optimized for your applications. Managing email is a resource-intensive and complex task. Mixing email services with application hosting can...

In the Vhost Editor, you can make changes on the NGINX VHost, which allows you to apply rewrites, redirects, reverse proxies, and other settings. Under the hood, CloudPanel checks the syntax and reverts the changes to prevent downtime, and throws an error message. On Github, you find all vhost...

Domain Settings In the Domain Settings, you can change your site's Root Directory. By default, the Domain Name will be used but can be changed to your needs. Site User Settings In the Site User Settings, you can reset the password for the primary SSH User or add SSH Keys if you want to use...

Account To edit your account information, click on the account icon top right and settings. Settings You can change your E-Mail, First Name, Last Name, or change your Password. Two-Factor Authentication Enable 2-FA To enable Two-Factor Authentication, click in your account on the Security...

Cloudpanel Add Site With CloudPanel, you can Create a WordPress Site, Create a PHP Site,Create a Node.js Site, Create a Static HTML Site, Create a Python Siteor Create a Reverse Proxy. Create a WordPress Site Fill out all fields and click on Create to Create a WordPress Site. Copy the...

You can do this if you enter www - ip adress as when adding the domain a record. ssl certificate must also be re-created.

I want to be able to serve the website on https://www.domain.com, as of now this redirects to https://domain.com. How can I change this in nginx config? Source: https://github.com/cloudpanel-io/cloudpanel-ce/discussions/597

Firewall The integrated Firewall in CloudPanel is based on UFW, also known as Uncomplicated Firewall. Developed to ease iptables firewall configuration, ufw provides a user-friendly way to create an IPv4 or IPv6 host-based firewall. CloudPanel is being shipped with pre-configured rules to...

CloudPanel version(s) affected all Description with the IDN domain names, and it giver the error as "invalid domain name" How to reproduce just add any IDN domain name as a new site, you will get the error message Possible Solution allow special characters in the domain fields while...