Bandwidth usage control with Cpanel

[fernandomm]

Hi,

I have litespeed installed on a Cpanel server.

Some users have exceeded their bandwidth limit this month and litespeed is still serving their pages while it should show a message about bandwidth usage exceeded.

Is this not supported by litespeed yet or it's probably something wrong with my configuration?

Thanks!

 

[webizen]

LiteSpeed supports that. see if you have "Bandwidth limit check" (Server Configuration -> Tweak Settings) disabled in whm. it needs to be turned on.

 

[fernandomm]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

It is turned on in my WHM configuration, just checked.

 

[webizen]

is the website status for those exceed limit showing "Disabled (Bandwidth Limit Exceeded)" in Account Functions -> Limit Bandwidth Usage?

 

[fernandomm]

No, not showing. Check the attached screenshot. This is what i get in one of the accounts.

 

[webizen]

click 'Change' button on that screen, do you see something like "Website Status: DISABLED (Bandwidth Limit Exceeded)" ?

 

[fernandomm]

Yes, when i click Change i see this message but the website keeps working.

 

[webizen]

do force reinstall from lsws (admin console -> actions -> version manager) and see if the issue disappears.

 

[fernandomm]

I could only test this during the weekend and even after the reinstall it doesn't work.

Tried to limit a few websites with a very low limit and it still doesn't work.


Litespeed version is 4.0.20.

 

[webizen]

do 'grep bwlimited /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf' and paste the output here.

 

[fernandomm]

Hmm, this isn't returning anything. What could cause this problem?

 

[webizen]

for some reason (maybe manual removal or sth), the following line in apache conf file is missing which indicates mod_bwlimited module (for bandwidth limitation) isn't enabled in cpanel/whm. that's why lsws doesn't block the site.

LoadModule bwlimited_module modules/mod_bwlimited.so

 

[fernandomm]

It seems that mod_bandwidth was not compiled last time easyapache was ran.

How exactly should i proceed in this case? Compile using easy apache and them reinstall litespeed to force it to use mod_bandwidth?

 

[webizen]

no need to reinstall lsws. just enable easyapache integration in lsws whm plugin and run easyapache to build configuration. lsws will pick up the new config afterward.

edit:
mod_bwlimited is cpanel build-in module. that mod_bwlimited line should be there regardless of mod_bandwidth. that's why i suspect the line might be manually removed.