WHM is not showing Plugin Section while plugins are installed

Symptoms

After installing some plugins into WHM such as CSF or immunity the plugins category does not show up in WHM. 

Description 

Sometimes, a server is created through an image and the /var/cpanel/apps is a file instead of a folder. You can test which one this is with the stat command: 

# stat /var/cpanel/apps
File: ‘/var/cpanel/apps’
Size: 118 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 directory
Device: fd01h/64769d Inode: 56637347 Links: 2
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2021-05-08 05:45:03.625810566 -0500
Modify: 2021-04-30 05:21:36.767498039 -0500
Change: 2021-04-30 05:21:36.767498039 -0500
Birth: -

Workaround

If the output says "regular file" instead of "directory" then the apps file needs to be moved out to the way and replaced with a folder called apps instead. Once that is set then you will need to reinstall your plugins so that they can create the needed files in the /var/cpanel/apps directory.