DirectAdmin changed their underlying licensing system at the end of January 2022. As a result, older DirectAdmin installations may show a 401 Unauthorized message when you click Licensing / Updates. You can solve this by updating your installation via command-line:
Step 1
Connect to your VPS via SSH or the VPS console in the TransIP control panel.
Step 2
Execute the following commands as the root user, or using an account with sudo privileges:
/usr/local/directadmin/scripts/getDA.sh current
You are free to replace 'current' with 'stable'.
Step 3
In some cases a license update is required after the previous step. Just to be sure, let your server check its license using the commands:
cd /usr/local/directadmin/scripts ./getLicense.sh auto systemctl restart directadmin
This concludes our short tutorial on fixing the Unauthorized error when clicking Licensing/Updates in DirectAdmin.
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