As a sysadmin, for some reason, I needed to find the IP address my websites were using on cPanel. This is probably a hard way but it works.
A huge amount of information is stored in the cPanel user file. Here’s a sample:
$ cat /var/cpanel/users/testusername
#cPanel — If you edit this file directly you must run /scripts/updateuserdomains after to rebuild the cache
BWLIMIT=5242880000
CONTACTEMAIL=admin@domain.com.au
CONTACTEMAIL2=
DEMO=0
DNS=primarydomain.com.au
FEATURELIST=default
HASCGI=0
IP=123.45.67.89
LANG=english
MAXADDON=5
MAXFTP=5
MAXLST=5
MAXPARK=5
MAXPOP=5
MAXSQL=5
MAXSUB=5
OWNER=root
PLAN=simple
RS=x3
STARTDATE=1238043252
USER=testusername
When you start parking domains and using addon domains, they also appear under this file as DNS1=blah.com, etc.
I use this command to extract the IP address out of this file.
$ cat /var/cpanel/users/putusernamehere | grep ‘IP=’ | cut -d’=’ -f2
123.45.67.89
Perfect! What more could you want!
I originally came up with these because when I move websites between servers I modify my local hosts file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts or /etc/hosts) with the domain name and IP address of the new server to test. So I use this code to format it for me so I can copy and paste:
echo “Host file output for testing…”
websiteIP=`cat /var/cpanel/users/${destinationUserName} | grep ‘IP=’ | cut -d’=’ -f2`echo “————————-
${websiteIP} ${domainName}
${websiteIP} www.${domainName}
————————-”
echo
Results in:
Host file output for testing…
————————-
123.45.67.89 primarydomain.com.au
123.45.67.89 www.primarydomain.com.au
————————-
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