FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

Can you help me install it?

Try the auto installer, it should work, and it's easy to use. If you still have problems, or you have some kind of special case, you har welcome to contant me. See the front page for contact info.

Is there any bugs or other problems I should be aware of?

There is currently no known bugs.

When people login to cPanel thru cPanel Proxy, cPanel will see the users ip as 127.0.0.1. Next time a user logs into the same cPanel account, it will say that last login was from 127.0.0.1. This is just like when you login to cPanel by HTTPS.

See also the next question on security issues.

Is there any (potential) security problems?

There is no known security problems. cPanel Proxy does nothing but forwarding traffic, so nobody should be able to do anything they can't do without cPanel Proxy, assuming they are not firewalled.

I can only imagine one potential problem: Someone using the server might have chosen to trust any trafic from that server, because "it's my own server", forgetting that it is not a dedicated server. If somehow someone manages to access anything else that the cPanel services thru cPanel Proxy, this could be a problem. But of course, anyone with a user account on that server, would then be able to do the trick without cPanel Proxy installed.
But how anyone should be able to access anything else than cPanel services, without altering the script, I cannot image. It is probably not possible.

How can I trust that you haven't put in some kind of backdoor or something in cPanel Proxy?

You can download the script an read the source, or have your favorite PHP-guru do it. It's actually a very simple script.

Can I use cPanel Proxy with HTTPS?

I haven't tried it myself, but it is reported to work. I default installation probably won't work. The following is a short version of the instructions. If anything is unclear to you, please contact me, and I'll elaborate. See the front page for contact info.

Put cpanelproxy.php in the document root (/public_html) of the SSL website. Add this to .htaccess in the same directory:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(webmail|cpanel|whm)\.example\.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/cpanelproxy.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /cpanelproxy.php [last]


If you want to force users to use HTTPS, you can add "RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$".

I want to have cPanel Proxy installed on all accounts on my server. Is there an easy way to do that?

Unofficial-Support(.com) has made a HOW-TO on the subject. You will need root-access, this cannot be done by resellers.