How-To downgrade cPanel minor version

Introduction

There are times when you need to downgrade the cPanel version to an older minor version, such as downgrading 11.120.0.12 to 11.120.0.11. This article provides the steps to downgrade cPanel to an older minor version.

Please note that this procedure will keep your system on the same version forever, and you will not receive security and bug-fix updates.

Please note that cPanel can be downgraded to an older minor version, but not an older major version.

Procedure

1. Access the server's command line as the 'root' user via SSH or "Terminal" in WHM.
2. Open the /etc/cpupdate.conf file in your preferred text editor.
3. Update the CPANEL value to the desired version.

   CPANEL=11.120.0.11

4. Save the changes and exit the text editor.
5. Run the upcp script with the --force flag to install the older version.

   /scripts/upcp --force

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