does cpanel require a cgi-bin folder access?

mik3ca2

• October 04, 2015 11:47

Recently I received a lot of hacking attempts and the files the hackers requested begin with /cgi-bin. Does cpanel or whm interface itself require the availability of the cgi-bin path to function or am I safe to assume requests from /cgi-bin only come from hackers?

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  Jcats

  • October 04, 2015 19:24

  cPanel itself does as a lot of redirects use cgi, default pages, etc, but the cgi-bin folder in the cPanel user account itself, example, /home/user/public_html/cgi-bin is not necessary unless using cgi specific scripts.

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  cPanelMichael

  • October 05, 2015 21:39

  Hello :) In addition to the previous post, should you prefer to disable CGI for your websites, this document may help:

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