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DirectAdmin Change License Key | Guide

DirectAdmin is a powerful tool for managing our server.

However, sometimes we may need to manually update our license to keep everything running smoothly.

Here are the steps to manually update our DirectAdmin:

1. To begin with, gather the Client ID (uid) and License ID (lid). These are unique identifiers provided to us by DirectAdmin.
2. Then, head to the right directory by typing `cd /usr/local/directadmin/scripts` in the terminal. Then, run this command , replacing `123` and `1234` with your Client ID and License ID respectively:

   ./getLicense.sh clientID LicenseID
3. After updating the license, restart the DirectAdmin service to apply the changes:

   service directadmin restart

Troubleshooting Tips

Here are some troubleshooting tips in case you run into trouble while changing the DirectAdmin License Key:

• If you encounter errors while extracting the update files, run the following command to identify any issues:

  head -n 1 /usr/local/directadmin/conf/license.key
• If you have multiple IPs on your device and run into issues with wget binding to the incorrect one, specify the IP to bind to by adding it as the last argument in the command:

  ./getLicense.sh clientID LicenseID 1.2.3.4
• If you cannot connect to port 443, try using port 80 to download the license file:

  echo 1 > /root/.insecure_download
• If you run into errors during the restart process, restart DirectAdmin forcefully by running:

  killall -9 directadmin
/etc/init.d/directadmin start


Change Server IP

If we change our server’s IP address, then we have to update the DirectAdmin license as seen here:

1. First, contact DirectAdmin to obtain a new license file reflecting the updated IP address.
2. Then, SSH into our server and run the following commands to update the license and restart DirectAdmin:

   /usr/local/DirectAdmin/scripts/getLicense.sh
/etc/init.d/DirectAdmin restart

3. Next, download the ipswap.sh script from DirectAdmin and make it executable:

   wget http://www.DirectAdmin.com/ipswap.sh
chmod 755 ipswap.sh

4. Now, run the ipswap.sh script with the old and new IP addresses as arguments:

   ./ipswap.sh OLP_IP NEW_IP
5. Finally, restart the needed applications to apply the changes:

   /etc/init.d/httpd restart
/etc/init.d/proftpd restart
/etc/init.d/exim restart
/etc/init.d/dovecot restart


With these steps, we can easily update our DirectAdmin license.

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Conclusion

In brief, our Support Experts demonstrated how to change DirectAdmin License Key.