If you’re using Google Apps for email–and it’s a solid choice with lots of storage space, spam management tools and integration with other free services–after creating the appropriate DNS records to route your email, you’ll want to add an SPF Record. This ensures better email delivery and prevents vile spammers from forging their spam as having come from you!

Some domain registrars give you adequate tools to add an SPF record directly, but if not, it’s simple enough to add it directly in WHM.¹

You’re using the “Edit Zone” command; select the zone for the domain in question, and add a new text record:

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Google Apps Mail SPF

Use domain.com. (keeping period at the end intact) as the entry, and the code below for the text part of the record (keeping quotes intact).

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See? That didn’t hurt much.

1. Thanks to this helpful article on Tech Talk Point.

Parking a domain on top of an addon domain in cPanel can be a quick, easy way to change the domain on a site without mussing with files or database connections and the like. If you’re using a database-driven site, however, be sure to make the relevant changes to the database. ¹

1. Login to cPanel and click Addon Domains–and not parked domains.
   
2. In the field to the right of “New Domain Name,” type the domain name you wish to park on top of your addon domain
3. Click outside the text box and your other settings will populate.
4. Under “Document Root:” remove everything except “public_html”
5. Look down to your current addon domain and its “Document Root” – normally a folder named after the original domain.
6. Take the “Document Root” and insert it in the field to the right of “Document Root:” at the top.
7. Insert any password in the password field. (You won’t need to remember this password, so just use the Generate Password button.)
8. Click Add Domain

1. Thanks to Hostgator Support for this helpful info.

If you”ve got a WP installation on a server not running under suPHP (i.e. requiring some folders set to 777 permissions), you may find your WP requests FTP info to do any updates, and get miscellaneous errors even with this info provided.¹ The AutoFTP plugin can help by saving the FTP credentials, but you may still see the errors. I did.

In addition to being annoying, this  can also be confusing for some webmasters. Since it’s a lousy idea to make your entire wp-content folder world-writable to allow for easier plugin updates, let’s look at a better solution:²

First, let’s add some protection for your wp-config.php file to your .htaccess file:

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Verify your “wp-content” folder permissions are set to 0755.

Then, chmod your wp-config.php file to 0644.

In your wp-config.php file (at the root of your WP installation), add the code below. Be sure to provide the correct paths for your server, and do not add a port to your FTP host:

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This should take care of the requirement to enter FTP information for every automatic update, and eliminates those annoying “cannot copy file” and “cannot move file” error messages when trying to do auto-upgrades of WP and plugins.

1. Why not run under the more restrictive permissions provided by suPHP? Maybe you want to run opcache  like e Accelerarter that requires a different configuration, for example.
2. Thanks to “detroiter” for this solution.

Where is the info for Addon Domains stored in Apached? Parked domains? cPanel Docs gives us an answer:

Deleting an addon domain won’t delete the files or databases associated with that domain. A parked domain, of course, won’t have files or databases associated with it.

If you cannot access your sites via http://ipaddress/~username (usually used as a temporary address pending domain propagation for new hosting clients), check that the Apache module mod_userdir, if enabled, has an exception configured for the default virtual host.

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To set up a default parking page for cPanel/WHM server, you need to place your default files in the proper place.

Check /usr/local/apache/htdocs for when a domain resolves to your server but does not actually exist in the Apache configuration file. If you just need a park page set up you can place it in that directory and name it index.php, index.html, etc.

As always, your configuration may vary.

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You can install regular SSL certificates to replace the self-signed copies that come with WHM (and therefore eliminate error warnings the customers receive using Webmail, cPanel, etc.).

In WHM to install your cert for WHM/cPanel services, you will need to use the link “Manage Service SSL Certificates” under Service configuration in your WHM. This will allow you to install certificates to different services such as mail and WHM.

These SSL Certificates won’t require a unique IP address because they are stored in a different area that the other security certificates.