What is Subaddressing? Subaddressing is also known as ‘plus addressing’ or ‘detailed addressing’, and describes the ability to send email to an address that not only contains an email username, an @ character, and a domain, but also a delimiter character and a ‘detail’ string. For example, sending an email to the address admin+mailinglist@domain.com, which uses the + as the […]
DKIM is a means of authentication using cryptographic techniques designed to combat email spoofing. A DKIM-enabled mail server will generate a hash of the email contents that it wants to sign, use its private key to encrypt it, and sign the outbound message with it. Remote servers receiving email from the DKIM-enabled mail server will […]
Invalid license errors are either due to wrong uid/lid, IP, or date, or the DA cron isn’t running. You should first see if the cron is running by searching the cron log for license update crons, If not, try to run the cron manually, If you see errors like the following, you may need to […]
WordPress is an open-source content management system. It is more popular due to versatility and the community contribution towards wordpress to make it a multipurpose platform. In some cases, WordPress might get affected by malicious code/plugin leading to a whole cPanel compromise; in that case, we always recommend removing the affected plugins, themes and the […]
How To Configure Your DirectAdmin Server To Use a Remote Mailserver For Your Domain?
Last Updated: January 23, 2026
The following instructions have you logging in as admin initially just in case you need to enable the DSN Control option for the user. If the user’s account doesn’t have the MX Records menu in DirectAdmin, you will need to enable this option. Learn, How To Configure Your DirectAdmin Server To Use a Remote Mailserver […]
Gzip compresses the content before serving it to the requested client. Due to the compression of the files, its effectiveness accelerates the website performance to the next level. Learn, How to Enable Apache Gzip Compression (mod_deflate) in DirectAdmin ? How to check Gzip Compression status? Just like for every other apache server, you can use […]
How to Increase the DirectAdmin File Manager Max Request / Upload Size Limit?
Last Updated: January 23, 2026
You might have default restrictions on many factors in a shared hosting environment. You can modify the Max Request / Upload Size limit of DirectAdmin through administrator settings. Let us learn, How to Increase the DirectAdmin File Manager Max Request / Upload Size Limit? 1. First, to login into DirectAdmin control panel visit, https://your-domain.com:2222 or https://IP-address:2222 or https://server-hostname:2222. 2. […]
With the recent influx of cPanel to DirectAdmin migrations, one area of confusion has resulted in PHPMyAdmin access. Let’s clarify the cause of the confusion and a resolution to resolve/prevent it.Until recently with DirectAdmin, PHPMyAdmin access would require a login. This login would require the database user’s credentials (typically found within the site’s configuration file). […]
How To Recompile Only a Single Version Of PHP With DirectAdmin’s CustomBuild?
Last Updated: January 23, 2026
Let’s say that you have four versions of PHP installed, and you only want to update the default PHP version or php1_release. You know that if you do, recompiling all versions of PHP is going to take a while, so you may be deterred to update because of this. In the following example, we have […]
DirectAdmin has recently released a new feature to allow direct, automatic login into Webmail from within the DirectAdmin interface. One-Click login to any RoundCube account. By default, this option is disabled hence you can not find one-click login option for Webmail, Learn, How To Enable Auto-Login for Webmail in DirectAdmin ? By default this feature […]