{"id":11505,"date":"2024-05-03T05:42:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T05:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostvento.com\/kb\/web-hosting\/getting-started-guide\/shared-hosting-quick-start-guide\/how-to-update-cpanel-license-on-your-server\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T09:42:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T09:42:26","slug":"how-to-update-cpanel-license-on-your-server","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/docs\/hosting-faqs\/how-to-update-cpanel-license-on-your-server\/","title":{"rendered":"How to update cPanel license on your server"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Three\u00a0reasons\u00a0exist\u00a0for\u00a0the\u00a0notice\u00a0&#8220;cPanel\u00a0license\u00a0not\u00a0active&#8221;\u00a0that\u00a0appears\u00a0when\u00a0attempting\u00a0to\u00a0enter\u00a0WHM\u00a0or\u00a0cPanel.<br>1. cPanel license not activated. Access verify.cpanel.net. Check if the license is activated on server IP. If is is not, you will have to opt for one.<br>2. cPanel license activated but not updated. If cPanel license is purchased, you will have to update it on the server as root via SSH. Execute the command\u00a0<strong>\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/cpkeyclt<\/strong><br>3. Firewall is not allowing to update the license. When connecting cPanel\u2019s license server, it uses port 80. See to it that outgoing connection on port 80 are opened\/enabled.<br>4. Server\u2019s hostname is not a FQDN. cPanel servers require a Fully Qualified Domain Name to be set as the server hostname. Make sure it is set. Example of FQDN is server.yourmaindomain.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hostvento.com\/kb\/web-hosting\/getting-started-guide\/shared-hosting-quick-start-guide\/how-to-redirect-one-domain-to-another-domain-name\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More:<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/hostvento.com\/kb\/web-hosting\/getting-started-guide\/shared-hosting-quick-start-guide\/how-to-redirect-one-domain-to-another-domain-name\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to redirect one domain to another domain name<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three\u00a0reasons\u00a0exist\u00a0for\u00a0the\u00a0notice\u00a0&#8220;cPanel\u00a0license\u00a0not\u00a0active&#8221;\u00a0that\u00a0appears\u00a0when\u00a0attempting\u00a0to\u00a0enter\u00a0WHM\u00a0or\u00a0cPanel.1. cPanel license not activated. Access verify.cpanel.net. Check if the license is activated on server IP. If is is not, you will have to opt for one.2. cPanel license activated but not updated. If cPanel license is purchased, you will have to update it on the server as root via SSH. Execute the command\u00a0\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/cpkeyclt3. Firewall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":23377,"menu_order":630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-11505","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/11505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/11505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20430,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/11505\/revisions\/20430"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/23377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=11505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}