{"id":18383,"date":"2026-09-29T21:37:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T18:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/knowledgebase\/cphulk-whitelist-blacklist-ip\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T21:37:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T18:37:47","password":"","slug":"cphulk-whitelist-blacklist-ip","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/knowledgebase\/cphulk-whitelist-blacklist-ip\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Whitelist or Blacklist an IP in cPHulk (WHM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hy-tldr\" style=\"background:#f6f7fb;border-left:4px solid #d83954;border-radius:10px;padding:14px 18px;margin:0 0 20px;line-height:1.8\"><strong>In short:<\/strong> To whitelist or blacklist an IP in cPHulk: log in to WHM, go to Security Center, then cPHulk Brute Force Protection. Open Whitelist Management or Blacklist Management, enter the IP address and click Add. A whitelisted IP is never blocked; a blacklisted IP is always blocked.<\/div>\n<p><strong>cPHulk<\/strong> protects your server against brute force attacks. It monitors logins to cPanel, WHM, Dovecot and Exim (email), Pure-FTPd and SSH.<\/p>\n<h2>Steps<\/h2>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Log in to WHM at <strong>https:\/\/your-server-ip:2087<\/strong> with your username and password.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/zasogooh\/2018\/04\/whm.png\" alt=\"WHM login\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Click <strong>Security Center<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/zasogooh\/2018\/12\/cPHulk14.png\" alt=\"Security Center in WHM\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Open <strong>cPHulk Brute Force Protection<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/zasogooh\/2018\/12\/cPHulk2.png\" alt=\"cPHulk Brute Force Protection\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> To whitelist an IP address, open <strong>Whitelist Management<\/strong>, enter the IP and click <strong>Add<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/zasogooh\/2018\/12\/cPHulk3.png\" alt=\"cPHulk whitelist\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> To blacklist an IP address, open <strong>Blacklist Management<\/strong>, enter the IP and click <strong>Add<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/zasogooh\/2018\/12\/cPHulk4.png\" alt=\"cPHulk blacklist\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Only whitelist IP addresses you trust, such as your office or home IP. See also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/knowledgebase\/brute-force-protection\/\">brute force protection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hy-svc-link\" style=\"background:#fff5f7;border-left:4px solid #d83954;border-radius:10px;padding:14px 18px;margin:20px 0;line-height:1.8\"><strong>Related service:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/server-management\/\">Hyyat Host server management<\/a> secures your server and firewall for you, with 24\/7 support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In short: To whitelist or blacklist an IP in cPHulk: log in to WHM, go to Security Center, then cPHulk Brute Force Protection. Open Whitelist Management or Blacklist Management, enter the IP address and click Add. A whitelisted IP is never blocked; a blacklisted IP is always blocked. cPHulk protects your server against brute force [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_templately_pack_id":"","_templately_imported_at":"","_templately_source":"","_templately_import_session_id":"","footnotes":""},"doc_category":[2734],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-18383","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-whm-cpanel-control-panels"],"year_month":"2026-10","word_count":151,"total_views":"2","reactions":{"happy":"1","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"ahmed fathy","author_nicename":"ahmed-fathy","author_url":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/author\/ahmed-fathy\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"whm\/cpanel control panels","term_url":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/kb\/whm-cpanel-control-panels\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/18383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/18383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=18383"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=18383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}