cPanel and Outlook Autodiscover

If you have a cPanel customer who also has an SSL certificate for their website, you may find that Outlook Autodiscover does not work properly (especially with older versions) as cPanel matches /Autodiscover/Autodiscover.xml and gives the client IMAP/SMTP settings instead of giving a 404 and letting it move on. You may even find that your requests are redirected to cpanelmaildiscovery.cpanel.net/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml which is obviously not desired. In this case, there is a quick fix, though it's really more of a hack. This assumes you're using Apache.

1. Edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
2. Search for autodiscover, you should find a ScriptAlias line referencing it
3. Comment this line out or remove it completely
4. Restart apache (service httpd graceful)
5. Edit /usr/local/cpanel/APACHE_CONFIG and find the same line and remove it
6. At the top of your httpd.conf you should also have details on how to make cPanel retain the settings, i ran /usr/local/cpanel/bin/apache_conf_distiller --update to save the changes to the template.

Obviously a cPanel update could potentially overwrite these changes, but as far as i could tell this is the only way to get it to actually behave correctly.