terminated cpanel still working and using another site files and database

ksvrach

• May 25, 2022 12:12

Hi, I deleted/terminated a cpanel account for example test.com now if i go to test.com it shows the exact website as another site example.com on the server and also uses the other sites database after getting deleted why is this happening? is this a secutity issue?

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • May 25, 2022 17:31

  Hey there! Most likely the DNS for test.com is still pointed to the server, and Apache is serving the best-match vhost it can to try and fulfill that request to the browser.

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  ksvrach

  • May 25, 2022 17:32

  yes i know i can change the dns for itbut what if anyone else points to to my server and now their domain also shows my website?

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • May 25, 2022 17:39

  That's exactly how the internet works. What you'll want to do to workaround that is to setup a default vhost that gets displayed when there is an unroutable request. We have two articles that will help you do that work:

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  ejsolutions

  • May 25, 2022 18:03

  This is interesting. Would it not make sense to tie the default vhost to the hostname, by default, thus preventing this from happening in the first place?

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • May 25, 2022 18:24

  For many users that is exactly what they do. However, clients that resell hosting plans often try and obscure the main hostname, so we prefer not to assume any default and let the end-users configure this.

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  ejsolutions

  • May 25, 2022 19:04

  .. goes off to my WHM servers, to make sure none of my client sites are "top of the list". ;)

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