How to Rebuild corrupted userdata files in Cpanel

In certain circumstances , your servers user data files may corrupt which can create issues while migrating , operating the cpanel accounts. These user data files can be repaired using a  valid and working httpd.conf  file on the server.

Lets assume we have a corrupted user data file , in order to rebuild the user data file follow the steps as below:

1) Login to your WHM/Cpanel server with root user

2) The user data files are located at /var/cpanel. Make sure if the userdata directory is present on the server.

3) If the directory exists , move it or rename it with mv command

mv /var/cpanel/userdata /var/cpanel/userdata_backup

4) Create a new user data directory with the command mkdir

mkdir /var/cpanel/userdata

5) Now that we have a new userdata directory created , in order to rebuild userdata files for all the accounts hosted on your cpanel server run the script “userdata_update” with “–reset” flag which will rebuild the userdata files for all the accounts that are hosted on your cpanel server.

/usr/local/cpanel/bin/userdata_update –reset

6) The next step will be to fix the permissions for newly generated user data files which can be done by running the command

/usr/local/cpanel/bin/fix_userdata_perms

7) Since we have a new userdata file generated we will need to update the system’s cache which can be done by command

/scripts/updateuserdatacache

8) Now rebuild the apache configuration in order to use the newly rebuilt userdata files with the command

/scripts/rebuildhttpdconf

9) Restart the apache service with the command

/scripts/restartsrv_httpd

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