So your at work and the system admin has decided that like BOFH (his hero) he is going to make your life hell when it comes to viewing your email and stats in cPanel.
Fear not fellow webmaster!
You can access your cPanel using a script. cPanel Proxy is a great script you can install into your cPanel so you can access cPanel and webmail even if you are behind a company firewall.
To install follow these simple instructions (at home where your not blocked)…
- Create subdomain “cpanel.yourdomain.com”
- Download and unzip cPanelProxy.zip
- Upload the files to the subdomains directory, probably “public_html/cpanel” in FTP
Now your ready to access your cPanel and by pass the company firewall.
Dave
September 12, 2007 6:59 am
Bypassing the company firewall. How safe is it with regards to 1) company security and 2) job security? When and if we use this type of script (a script that bypasses security), should we first have the company software developers evaluate its legitimacy?
blogadmin
September 12, 2007 7:06 am
All excellent questions. I think everyone should ask themself this before ever trying to work around a companies policies.
Dr. Cossack
September 12, 2007 7:02 pm
Ohh, now this is pretty neat. I’m not aware of any restrictions at my current work place related to this (and I’ve checked pretty throughly), so I’m assuming that they closed off connections to specific ports as a security measure. I’ll be trying this out, it should be interesting. Thanks for the post!
Dr. Cossack
September 13, 2007 6:13 pm
I tried this out today, and it’s a total success! I don’t think that I’ll be logging in too often, but this will be handy once in a while, such as if I suddendly remember something to check on.