{"id":6552,"date":"2016-06-17T06:38:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T10:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/g33kinfo.com\/info\/?p=6552"},"modified":"2016-06-17T06:38:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T10:38:24","slug":"cpanel-ssls-hostnames-are-required-to-have-dns-entries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g33kinfo.com\/info\/cpanel-ssls-hostnames-are-required-to-have-dns-entries\/","title":{"rendered":"Cpanel &#8211; SSL&#8217;s hostnames are required to have DNS entries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>tl;dr<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When cPanel starts up, if it doesn&#8217;t have a valid SSL (now valid properly signed SSL) it reissues it&#8217;s own SSL, or panics if it cannot.<\/li>\n<li>cPanel is now requiring a valid hostname check (similar to Let&#8217;s Encrypt) as a part of that check.<\/li>\n<li>Therefore, a server&#8217;s hostname now has to point at the server or cPanel not\u00a0start.<\/li>\n<li>You will receive an email every day if the hostname doesn&#8217;t line up.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ve have\u00a0to touch\u00a0a file to disable this, and then\u00a0run the script and then it should be set.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Due to cPanel&#8217;s recent change to their self-signed SSL&#8217;s, hostnames are required to have DNS entries. If this is not in place, they will not get a valid SSL and therefore cPanel will start and cpsrvd will immediately fail. To correct this we basically need to fix the DNS entry for the server&#8217;s hostname and then run <code>\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/bin\/checkallsslcerts<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Error from the \/usr\/local\/cpanel\/logs\/error_log:<br \/>\n<code>cpsrvd: Setting up native SSL support ... Could not load ssl libraries or certificate from \/var\/cpanel\/ssl\/cpanel\/ at cpsrvd.pl line 554.<br \/>\n[root@host] cpanel:\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/bin\/checkallsslcerts<br \/>\nThe system failed to acquire a signed certificate from the cPanel Store because of an error: (XID y4txyq) \u201chost.domain.com\u201d does not resolve to any IPv4 addresses on the internet.<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Updating DNS for the hostname and then running the check again will resolve the issue. If you do not have access to the customer&#8217;s DNS, this will require them to modify the DNS entries at the registrar and cPanel\/WHM will remain down until that change is made.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, this may be a concern when DNS can not change (or should not be changed for some reason). When this is the case, you can skip the cPanel signed SSL. If you touch\u00a0this file,<br \/>\n<code>\/var\/cpanel\/ssl\/disable_auto_hostname_certificate<\/code><br \/>\nthe system will no longer order, download, and install a free cPanel-signed hostname certificate.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/documentation.cpanel.net\/display\/ALD\/Manage+Service+SSL+Certificates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/documentation.cpanel.net\/display\/ALD\/Manage+&gt;Service+SSL+Certificates<\/a>\u00a0has more information on this.\u00a0After touching this file,\u00a0you\u00a0can run a<br \/>\n<code>\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/bin\/checkallsslcerts<\/code><br \/>\nfor a selfsigned ssl on the services.<\/p>\n<p>p.s.\u00a0You must restart Cpanel after updating the SSL Certs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tl;dr When cPanel starts up, if it doesn&#8217;t have a valid SSL (now valid properly signed SSL) it reissues it&#8217;s own SSL, or panics if it cannot. cPanel is now requiring a valid hostname check (similar to Let&#8217;s Encrypt) as a part of that check. 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