{"id":684,"date":"2017-02-17T18:25:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T18:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/?p=684"},"modified":"2017-02-17T18:25:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T18:25:30","slug":"how-to-enable-proxy-subdomains-cpanel-whm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/how-to-enable-proxy-subdomains-cpanel-whm\/","title":{"rendered":"How to enable Proxy subdomains in cPanel\/WHM"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why Need To Enable Proxy subdomains in WHM<\/h2>\n<h3>Issue on browsing webmail using default port disabled by firewall and bypass firewalls<\/h3>\n<p>Its a common case that when your client or you are trying to open your default webmail interface by accessing URL like https:\/\/yourdomain.com:2096 that using <strong>Port 2096<\/strong> which is disabled by some firewall like ISA or other firewall product , the solution is simple , you have to enable access the webmail\u00a0 as subdomain URL , by enabling <strong>Proxy subdomains.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>cPanel Proxy subdomains Overview<\/h2>\n<p>According to cPanel documentation : In cPanel &amp; WHM version 11.40 and earlier, visitors who used\u00a0<strong><strong>https<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>to access a site that did not have SSL configured saw a connection error.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In cPanel &amp; WHM version 11.42 and later, they modified Apache&#8217;s configuration to properly use proxy subdomains with SSL:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Proxy subdomain virtualhosts now handle SSL and non-SSL connections separately.<\/li>\n<li>Each proxy subdomain virtualhost explicitly binds to all of the IP addresses that are in use on a server.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>SSL virtualhost configurations\u2014such as the <em>cpanel<\/em>, <em>whm<\/em>, <em>webdisk<\/em>, and <em>webmail<\/em> proxy subdomains\u2014use the cPanel service SSL certificate.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How to enable cPanel Proxy subdomain<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Login to WHM control panel.<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to <strong>Home<\/strong> \u00bb<strong>Server Configuration<\/strong> \u00bb<strong>Tweak Settings <\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Domains<\/strong> Tab and on <strong>Proxy subdomains<\/strong> make the option <strong>On <\/strong>&#8220;It should be a default &#8220;.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>cPanel Ports and\u00a0 Proxy subdomain URL List<\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Service<\/th>\n<td>Standard port<\/td>\n<td>Secure port<\/td>\n<td>Proxy subdomain<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>cPanel<\/th>\n<td><em>2082<\/em><\/td>\n<td><em>2083<\/em><\/td>\n<td><strong>cpanel<\/strong>.yourdomain.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Webmail<\/th>\n<td><em>2095<\/em><\/td>\n<td><em>2096<\/em><\/td>\n<td><strong>webmail<\/strong>.yourdomain.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>WHM<\/th>\n<td><em>2086<\/em><\/td>\n<td><em>2087<\/em><\/td>\n<td><strong>whm<\/strong>.yourdomain.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Need To Enable Proxy subdomains in WHM Issue on browsing webmail using default port disabled by firewall and bypass firewalls Its a common case that when your client or you are trying to open your default webmail interface by accessing URL like https:\/\/yourdomain.com:2096 that using Port 2096 which is disabled by some firewall like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[133,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}