A few days ago I tried to change the SSH port of a server I’m working on from 22 to something different since that’s supposed to help with security. But the port I changed to was blocked by the firewall which means that after a reboot I had effectively locked myself out.
The server had WHM / cPanel on it so I was still able to manage the server, but needed to get back SSH. Fortunately cPanel has a built in script for this mistake.
Put the following into your browser replacing example.com with the domain name of your server.
https://example.com:2087/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=safesshrestart
Presto. SSH will be back on port 22. One thing you’ll need to do is go back and fix /etc/ssh/sshd_config so that it’s back on port 22 as well. I found out this morning that this fix doesn’t actually change the config file.
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