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changecontactemail

Change Contact Email

To change the contact email address of an eenos hosting account

Required Headers

Field Description Example
X-API-USER API user  name eenos_api
X-API-PASSWORD API  user password eenos123

Required Parameters

Field Description Example
user Eenos account user name myclient
email An email address neweemail@myclientsite.com

Status Codes

Code Description
200 OK, Success
400 Server Error
403 Forbidden
400 Bad Request

Request URL

Post url  = /changecontactemail/

Default Full URL =  https://your-host-name:5555/api/changecontactemail/

Version Full URL =  https://your-host-name:5555/api/v1/changecontactemail/

Sample Curl Code

#!/bin/bash

REQUEST_URL="/changecontactemail/"
BASE_URL="https://your-host-name:5555/api/v1"

# Default base URL
# BASE_URL="https://your-host-name:5555/api"

# Version specific base URL (recommended)
# BASE_URL="https://your-host-name:5555/api/v1"

API_URL="$BASE_URL$REQUEST_URL"

/usr/bin/curl -X POST "$API_URL" \
    -H "X-API-USER: eenos_api" \
    -H "X-API-PASSWORD: eenos123" \
    -d "user=myclient" \
    -d "email=newemail@myclientsite.com"

Sample Output

{
   "data" : "User contact email changed for myclient => neweemail@myclientsite.com",
   "info" : "Hosting account contact email changed successfully",
   "status" : 200
}
Python Code
#!/usr/bin/python3
import requests
from pprint import pprint

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
# API VERSION RULES
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
# Default API (stable):
#   https://your-host-name:5555/api/
#
# Versioned API (recommended for production / future compatibility):
#   https://your-host-name:5555/api/v1/
#
# Endpoint example (change contact email):
#   changecontactemail/
#   Full versioned URL:
#   https://your-host-name:5555/api/v1/changecontactemail/
#
# Use versioned endpoints when API structure may change across releases.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------

# API URL (versioned)
api_url = "https://your-host-name:5555/api/v1/changecontactemail/"

# If using default API, uncomment below:
# api_url = "https://your-host-name:5555/api/changecontactemail/"

# Authentication headers (new API format)
headers = {
    "X-API-USER": "eenos_api",
    "X-API-PASSWORD": "eenos123",
}

# Payload data
data = {
    "user": "myclient",
    "email": "newemail@myclientsite.com"
}

try:
    response = requests.post(api_url, headers=headers, data=data)
    response.raise_for_status()
    pprint(response.json())
except Exception as e:
    pprint(str(e))
PHP Code
<?php

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| API VERSION RULES
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Default API (stable):
|   https://your-host-name:5555/api/
|
| Versioned API (recommended for production / future compatibility):
|   https://your-host-name:5555/api/v1/
|
| Endpoint example (change contact email):
|   changecontactemail/
|   Full versioned URL:
|   https://your-host-name:5555/api/v1/changecontactemail/
|
| Use versioned endpoints when API structure may change across releases.
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/

// API request URL (versioned)
$request_url = '/changecontactemail/';

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| BASE URL SELECTION
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/

// Versioned API base URL
$base_url = 'https://your-host-name:5555/api/v1';

// Default API base URL (uncomment if needed)
// $base_url = 'https://your-host-name:5555/api';

// Full API URL
$api_url = $base_url . $request_url;

// POST payload
$fields = [
    'user'  => 'myclient',
    'email' => 'newemail@myclientsite.com'
];

// Initialize cURL
$ch = curl_init($api_url);

// Set options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($fields));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

// Authentication headers (new API format)
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
    'X-API-USER: eenos_api',
    'X-API-PASSWORD: eenos123'
]);

// Execute request
$result = curl_exec($ch);

// Error handling
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
    echo 'cURL Error: ' . curl_error($ch);
} else {
    echo json_encode(json_decode($result), JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);
}

// Close connection
curl_close($ch);

?>