How can I change main IP address using ssh

Stuart Brown

• April 10, 2017 08:58

Stupid me, I changed the main IP address of my VPS in WHM. Now when I login to WHM I get the CPanel License Activation page because the new IP Address does not have a CPanel License. Is there any way of using SSH to login and change a config file somewhere to change the IP Address back to what it was please?

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  dalem

  • April 10, 2017 15:22

  what does ifconfig say why can you just reset your main IP in your vps control panel (or is that not allowed) what does your your ip start up's look like in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

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  Stuart Brown

  • April 10, 2017 16:51

  I can't change the IP address in the control panel because I can't login into cpanel! There's no way to do this from my hosting companies website either. I have five files that have a change date of today in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts: ifcfg-venet0 ifcfg-venet0:0 ifcfg-venet0:1 ifcfg-venet0:2 ifcfg-venet0:3 They relate to the four IP addresses I am using. ifconfig doesn't give me any more information than what's in those files

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  cPanelMichael

  • April 10, 2017 18:35

  Hello, The cPanel license is IP-based. You can see which IP address your server is making outgoing connections from with one of these commands:
  curl -L http://cpanel.net/showip.cgi lynx -dump http://cpanel.net/showip.cgi
  If you need to change the IP address used for outgoing connections, then you'd have to make manual modifications to the network scripts on your system. Here's a thread where this is discussed: Changing the main server IP and sites on server will not load However, if you are unfamiliar with these files, I recommend reaching out to your provider for help making the network configuration changes. Thank you.

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