# Essential Repos Disabled By Interworx? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Inquries\ **Tags:** disabled, repos, repositories\ **Created:** [May 22, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://forums.interworx.com/t/essential-repos-disabled-by-interworx/14000 "2016-05-22T15:13:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Synthetisoft](https://forums.interworx.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@Synthetisoft](https://forums.interworx.com/u/Synthetisoft)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://forums.interworx.com/t/essential-repos-disabled-by-interworx/14000/1 "2016-05-22T15:13:51Z")
I noticed the following… It seems as though Interworx has disabled all repos but EPEL, RPMForge, and Remi. It doesn’t make sense to me that CloudLinux 7 Base, Updates, etc. should be disabled. What’s the reason for this? Should I enable them? Are there any I should or shouldn’t enable in particular? ![Selection_085.jpg](https://forums.interworx.com/uploads/default/original/1X/8885845d525a927b9324b58737cb00a9e706e42c.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![d2d4j](https://forums.interworx.com/user_avatar/forums.interworx.com/d2d4j/32/16_2.png) [@d2d4j](https://forums.interworx.com/u/d2d4j)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 3:26pm UTC](https://forums.interworx.com/t/essential-repos-disabled-by-interworx/14000/2 "2016-05-22T15:26:20Z")
Hi synthetisoft Please do not mistake IW for cpanel Cpanel locks the distro, interworx does not It is not interworx that has disabled the repos, as they will have never been enabled As an admin, you have the power to turn on or off what you consider is appropriate for your systems or what you trust, or turn off what you do not Cpanel as far as I know, is locked and you do not have this facility You can turn on any repo you trust I hope that helps, and sorry it is very late here where I am Many thanks John ---
**Author:** ![Synthetisoft](https://forums.interworx.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@Synthetisoft](https://forums.interworx.com/u/Synthetisoft)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://forums.interworx.com/t/essential-repos-disabled-by-interworx/14000/3 "2016-05-22T15:47:28Z")
[QUOTE=d2d4j;28528]Hi synthetisoft Please do not mistake IW for cpanel Cpanel locks the distro, interworx does not It is not interworx that has disabled the repos, as they will have never been enabled As an admin, you have the power to turn on or off what you consider is appropriate for your systems or what you trust, or turn off what you do not Cpanel as far as I know, is locked and you do not have this facility You can turn on any repo you trust I hope that helps, and sorry it is very late here where I am Many thanks John[/QUOTE] Thank you but I do believe Interworx disabled them. I know I didn’t and they would have had to be enabled for me to install CloudLinux. The base repos come enabled by default by the OS and then after upgrading to CloudLinux. My experience isn’t exclusive to cPanel, I’ve just never used Interworx. The problem now is that I don’t remember which repos are standard for CloudLinux. I guess I can check my other server. Also, just so you know, cPanel doesn’t lock your repos. It just expects certain packages and enables repos for them if they’re not already. I imagine Interworx does something similar. Strange that my base repos were disabled though. ---
**Author:** ![Synthetisoft](https://forums.interworx.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@Synthetisoft](https://forums.interworx.com/u/Synthetisoft)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 3:59pm UTC](https://forums.interworx.com/t/essential-repos-disabled-by-interworx/14000/4 "2016-05-22T15:59:50Z")
Now I can see that Interworx has its own repos on my system. Is it just for the panel? ---
**Author:** ![Synthetisoft](https://forums.interworx.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@Synthetisoft](https://forums.interworx.com/u/Synthetisoft)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://forums.interworx.com/t/essential-repos-disabled-by-interworx/14000/5 "2016-05-22T16:09:37Z")
when I run “yum repolist enabled” I see: ```auto cloudlinux-x86_64-server-7 CloudLinux Server 7 x86_64 20,755epel/x86_64 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_64 10,051 interworx-release/7/x86_64 InterWorx Release - RedHat Enterprise 7 115 interworx-release-noarch InterWorx Release - Generic 298 interworx-stable/7/x86_64 InterWorx Stable - RedHat Enterprise 7 37 interworx-stable-noarch InterWorx Stable - Generic 228 remi-safe Safe Remi's RPM repository for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_64 812 rpmforge RHEL 7 - RPMforge.net - dag 245 ``` but when I view the contents of “/etc/yum.repos.d/cloudlinux.repo” all the repos in that file are disabled. I’m not sure what packages the interworx repos are managing. I just want to make sure I’m getting the most up to date and secure packages while not breaking Interworx compatibility. ---
**Author:** ![d2d4j](https://forums.interworx.com/user_avatar/forums.interworx.com/d2d4j/32/16_2.png) [@d2d4j](https://forums.interworx.com/u/d2d4j)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 4:44am UTC](https://forums.interworx.com/t/essential-repos-disabled-by-interworx/14000/6 "2016-05-23T04:44:08Z")
Hi synthetisoft IW repos are for IW IW do not disable any repos, and most likely need to reread your post, but it’s likely a small bug between IW-cp correctly identifying the repos installed and if active or not You may want to open a bug report with IW and let IW have a quick look You can set IW to update itself depending upon your requirements, from nodeworx, system, updates. On our systems, we have production servers set to stable and a test server running release candidate. When a new update has been pushed out, we check and schedule to update our production when happy Sorry, cpanel I meant in general, as IW allow a system admin to make changes they need in full, and choose which repo they want to use, even allow rpm install etc… Cpanel is very much restrictive in this Many thanks John