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cPanel/WHM Administration Scripts - I

Lets make short time of it. I'll just put the script and then the output.

For parsing a list of sites and displays their respective DocumentRoot.

USER=webuser;
for i in `grep $USER /etc/userdomains | cut -d":" -f1`;
 do s=$(grep -niC3 \ $i /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf|grep DocumentRoot \
 |awk '{ print $3}');
 printf "%-30s" ${i} " - "${s}; printf "\n";
 done

And the output:

mindbend.org                   - /home/webuser/public_html/mindbend.org
wiredgoat.com                  - /home/webuser/public_html/wiredgoat.com
oddsmojo.com                   - /home/webuser/public_html/oddsmojo.com

Reasons for needing this can vary, but having it is essential for routinely modifying a large amount of sites.

For creating a list of sites owned by every user owned by one owner. Essentially, if you have a series of cpanel accounts owned by one WHM user, this pulls all of the sites hosted under the WHM user.

OWNER=webuser
for i in `grep -li owner=${OWNER} /var/cpanel/users/*`;
 do grep $i /etc/userdomains | cut -d":" -f1;
 done

The output will look something like:

mindbend.org
oddsmojo.com
wiredgoat.com
wirelesspeg.com
servicepeg.com

Very useful for quickly identifying sites under one owner.

Lets assume the output above was placed into a file called sites. We now have a dilemma, sites were imported but some are not showing up yet, some are showing the holding page. We suspect DNS issues. This method for determining propagation and DNS is a little flawwed as the length of items inside Virtual entries in your httpd.conf file can vary. Play with this but note that you may need to increase or decrease the grep depth. First thing to do is create a list of the sites and their existing IP and their expected IP.

for i in `cat sites`;
 do s=$(dig $i a +short);
 t=$(grep -niB3 \ $i /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf \
 |grep Virt|awk '{ print $2}'|sed 's/>//' \
 |cut -d":" -f1);
 echo $i " h: " $s " a: " $t;
 done

Output will look something similar to:

mindbend.org h: 174.143.253.175 a: 174.143.253.175
wiredgoat.com h: 174.143.253.175 a: 174.143.253.175
oddsmojo.com h: 68.178.232.100 a: 68.178.232.100

As you can see, the IP addresses match. But what if you have a list of over 100 domains and some do not match? Let us assume the output from above is kept in a file called sites:

for i in `cat sites`;
 do echo $i | awk -F" " '{ if ($3 != $5) print $1 " " $3 "--" $5 }';
 done

If the script finds any hosts that do not match, output will look like:

faildomain.net 127.0.0.1 -- 0.0.0.0

Once you have this list, you can do the needful with various other scripts to parse through.

I am available for consultation should the need for custom scripts arrise. Please do not hestitate to email me for a quote.