Use cPanel for webhosting without DNS/email

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• October 14, 2016 14:13

Hi, I just want cPanel to host a few hundred websites but I don't want to use it for email or DNS. I have a domain foo.com (DNS with Namecheap) and I've configured "*.foo.com" as a wildcard resolving to my cPanel server IP address. Thus any customer can instantly choose "bob.foo.com" and the name resolution is already in place & working. I then use the cPanel/WHM API to create an account for bob using hostname "bob.foo.com". If bob later wants to overlap his own domain "example.com" (about 20% of my customers do), then he enters that in my admin control panel and I use the cPanel/WHM API (cpanel_xmlapi_module=Park&cpanel_xmlapi_func=park) to park "example.com" onto his account. It's all seems to have been working fine for ~3 years. In WHM -> Tweak Settings, I've enabled "Allow Remote Domains" even though the docs say only "Warning: Do not enable this option. It can cause serious security issues." Questions: * Is there a way to tell cPanel to *NOT* create DNS zones and email rules for these domains? Currently if I go to WHM -> Edit Zone File then I see ~1000 zone files, including for some customer domains that were never set up properly or have since left. I don't want that... right? * Is there any more in-depth explanation of "Allow Remote Domains"? This page Tweak Settings - Domains - Documentation - cPanel Documentation just says not to use it... why the #@$@# is it a setting then? Basically, when I give cPanel a customer domain name, I want to ONLY use that in Apache conf files to correct map HTTP requests... not for anything else. People talk about /etc/remotedomains but that seems to be for email. Thanks!

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  cPanelMichael

  • October 14, 2016 20:58

  Hello,

  * Is there a way to tell cPanel to *NOT* create DNS zones and email rules for these domains? Currently if I go to WHM -> Edit Zone File then I see ~1000 zone files, including for some customer domains that were never set up properly or have since left. I don't want that... right?

  
  You can disable your name server via: "WHM Home " Service Configuration " Nameserver Selection" This will keep the zones, but disable the DNS server itself, as some functions of cPanel/WHM relay on the existence of the zone files. You can disable email services via: "WHM Home " Service Configuration " Service Manager" Additionally, you can choose which features show up in cPanel using: "WHM Home " Packages " Feature Manager " Feature List"

  * Is there any more in-depth explanation of "Allow Remote Domains"? This page Tweak Settings - Domains - Documentation - cPanel Documentation just says not to use it... why the #@$@# is it a setting then?

  
  The following thread includes an explanation of this option: Allow Remote Domains Let us know if you have any additional questions. Thanks!

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