{"id":348,"date":"2021-07-23T12:28:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T12:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/how-to-prevent-cpanel-users-from-creating-certain-domains\/"},"modified":"2021-07-23T12:28:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T12:28:14","slug":"how-to-prevent-cpanel-users-from-creating-certain-domains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/how-to-prevent-cpanel-users-from-creating-certain-domains\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Prevent cPanel Users from Creating Certain Domains"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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Overview<\/h2>\n

cPanel & WHM allows you to deny cPanel users the ability to create certain domains or use certain top-level domains (TLDs). This feature is useful, for example, to deny cPanel users the ability to park a well-known domain (such as google.com<\/code>) on top of a domain.<\/p>\n

For more information about the domains that cPanel users can create, read our Aliases and Addon Domains documentation.<\/p>\n

Add to the list of user-denied domains<\/h2>\n

To add to the list of domains that cPanel & WHM does not allow users to create, perform the following steps:<\/p>\n

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    From the command line, run the following command to view the default list of domains that cPanel & WHM does not allow users to create. <\/p>\n

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    cat \/usr\/<\/span>local\/cpanel\/<\/span>etc\/<\/span>commondomains<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
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    • If the file contains a large number of entries, run the grep 'example.com' \/usr\/local\/cpanel\/etc\/commondomains<\/code> command to determine whether the example.com<\/code> domain exists in the list.\n
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      Warning:<\/div>\n
      \n        Do not<\/strong> edit this file directly. System updates overwrite any changes to this file. Instead, follow the next step to create a new file.\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
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      With a text editor, add the domains and TLDs that you do not<\/strong> want to allow users to create to the \/var\/cpanel\/commondomains<\/code> file.<\/p>\n
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        Add each domain or TLD on a separate line, and do not<\/strong> prepend or append a dot to the domains. For example: <\/p>\n
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        1\n<\/span>2\n<\/span>3\n<\/span>4\n<\/span>5\n<\/span><\/code><\/pre>\n<\/td>\n
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        a<\/span>.com<\/span>\nb<\/span>.com<\/span>\nc<\/span>.com<\/span>\n.cat<\/span>\n.ninja<\/span><\/code><\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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        Only<\/strong> add domain names and TLDs to this file (for example, example.com<\/code>). When you list a domain name, cPanel & WHM will automatically prevent the creation of subdomains for that domain or domains under a TLD. For example, if you list the example.com<\/code> domain, users also cannot create the sub.example.com<\/code> domain.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
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        In the Domains<\/em> section of WHM\u2019s Tweak Settings<\/em> interface (WHM >> Home >> Server Configuration >> Tweak Settings<\/em>), set the Prevent cPanel users from creating specific domains<\/em> setting to On<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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