AutoSSL Failed in cPanel: DCV Errors, CAA and Fixes
Tested on 12 October 2026. cPanel’s AutoSSL can’t run outside a licensed cPanel server, so we reproduced the part that most often fails, HTTP domain control validation (DCV), in a ShoHost sandbox (Apache 2.4 on Debian): we placed a validation file the way AutoSSL does and blocked it with a common .htaccess rule. The cPanel…