change cpanel /whm database port 3306

Quintanilha-RJ

• July 16, 2023 14:21

Good afternoon, I'm facing problems on my cpanel whm server at ovh, I'm suspicious that I'm taking ddos attacks on my server on port 3306 referring to the database, so I want to change this port to one of my choice. How do I change database port 3306 in cpanel whm panel, could anyone help me. I've been researching but haven't found anything about this setting!

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  ffeingol

  • July 16, 2023 21:06

  You'd change it in /etc/my.cnf In the [mysqld] section you'd either add a port=#### or change the port number if it's there. MySQL would need to be restarted after the change. Here is the

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  Quintanilha-RJ

  • July 19, 2023 13:24

  It's happening that I use the MariaDB database and I'm having problems these last few days that my server is dropping the database every hour, I don't know what could be happening. Is there any way for me to find out the cause of this problem.

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  ffeingol

  • July 19, 2023 13:32

  I'm not 100% sure it would be the same log file, but I'd check /var/log/mysqld.log and see if there is anything useful there. You may need to check the MariaDB log file name, but I believe cPanel sets them to the same name.

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  Quintanilha-RJ

  • July 19, 2023 14:16

  I found three mysql log files but they are blank, and my /etc/my.cnf file is as follows

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • July 19, 2023 18:44

  You'd want to check the log file listed on the "log-error" line to view the main log to see if that provides any clues. As others have mentioned, unless you have specifically opened port 3306 externally, an external attack is likely not the issue you're experiencing.

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