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How to fix Softaculous “ERROR LOADING DATAChild failed to make LIVEAPI connection to cPanel.”

December 9, 2022 at 8:57 pm

Check if an account didn’t overuse its limits

Try to reinstall Softaculous

wget -N http://files.softaculous.com/install.sh
chmod 755 install.sh
./install.sh --reinstall

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How to reinstall Softaculous on cPanel server

1809 admin

November 3, 2019 at 6:41 pm

Backup settings files/folders:

rm -rf /usr/local/src/softaculous_settings_bk
mkdir -p /usr/local/src/softaculous_settings_bk
cp -rp /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/softaculous/enduser/universal.php /usr/local/src/softaculous_settings_bk/
cp -rp /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/softaculous/enduser/iscripts.php /usr/local/src/softaculous_settings_bk/
cp -rp /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/softaculous/enduser/categories.ser /usr/local/src/softaculous_settings_bk/
cp -rp /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/softaculous/conf /usr/local/src/softaculous_settings_bk/
cp -rp /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/softaculous/enduser/hooks /usr/local/src/softaculous_settings_bk/

Do the re-installation:

wget -N http://files.softaculous.com/install.sh
chmod 755 install.sh
./install.sh --force-download

Restore your settings:

cat /usr/local/src/softaculous_settings_bk/universal.php

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Softaculous. How to disable unwanted CMS using command line

1258 admin

September 8, 2018 at 9:50 pm (last edited September 8, 2018 at 9:52 pm)

Find out CMS IDs:

less /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/softaculous/enduser/iscripts.php |egrep 'CumulusClips|VidiScript|ClipBucket|ownCloud' |grep array

Then disable them as following:

php /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/softaculous/cli.php --disable_script --sid=131,170,368,437

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