diff --git a/deploy/cpanel.sh b/deploy/cpanel.sh
index dc3837b3..90dd8027 100644
--- a/deploy/cpanel.sh
+++ b/deploy/cpanel.sh
@@ -25,113 +25,62 @@ cpanel_deploy() {
   _debug _cfullchain "$_cfullchain"
 
 export _ckey _ccert _cdomain
-# Perl code taken from https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/SDK/Tutorial+-+Call+UAPI%27s+SSL%3A%3Ainstall_ssl+Function+in+Custom+Code
-perl -f <<'END'
-# Return errors if Perl experiences problems.
-use strict;
-use warnings;
-# Allow my code to perform web requests.
-use LWP::UserAgent;
-use LWP::Protocol::https;
-# Use the correct encoding to prevent wide character warnings.
-use Encode;
-use utf8;
-# Properly decode JSON.
-use JSON;
-# Function properly with Base64 authentication headers.
-use MIME::Base64;
+# PHP code taken from https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/DD/Tutorial+-+Call+UAPI's+SSL::install_ssl+Function+in+Custom+Code
+php <<'END'
+<?php
+// Log everything during development.
+// If you run this on the CLI, set 'display_errors = On' in php.ini.
+error_reporting(E_ALL);
 
-# Authentication information.
-my $username = $ENV{'DEPLOY_CPANEL_USER'};
-my $password = $ENV{'DEPLOY_CPANEL_PASSWORD'};
-my $hostname = $ENV{'DEPLOY_CPANEL_HOSTNAME'};
+// Authentication information.
+$username = getenv('DEPLOY_CPANEL_USER');
+$password = getenv('DEPLOY_CPANEL_PASSWORD');
 
-# The URL for the SSL::install_ssl UAPI function.
-my $request = "https://".$hostname."/execute/SSL/install_ssl";
+// The URL for the SSL::install_ssl UAPI function.
+$request = "https://cpanel61.fastdnsservers.com:2083/execute/SSL/install_ssl";
+$request = "https://localhost:2083/execute/SSL/install_ssl";
 
-# Required to allow HTTPS connections to unsigned services.
-# Services on localhost are always unsigned.
-$ENV{PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME} = 0;
+// Read in the SSL certificate and key file.
+$cert = getenv('_ccert');
+$key = getenv('_ckey');
 
-# Create a useragent object.
-my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
-
-# Add authentication headers.
-$ua->default_header(
-    'Authorization' => 'Basic ' . MIME::Base64::encode("$username:$password"),
+// Set up the payload to send to the server.
+$domain = getenv('_cdomain');
+$payload = array(
+    'domain' => "$domain",
+    'cert'   => file_get_contents($cert),
+    'key'    => file_get_contents($key)
 );
 
-# Read in the SSL certificate and key file.
-my $cert = $ENV{'_ccert'};
-my $key = $ENV{'_ckey'};
-{
-    local $/;
-    open ( my $fh, '<', $cert );
-    $cert = <$fh>;
-    close $fh;
+// Set up the cURL request object.
+$ch = curl_init( $request );
+curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC );
+curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username . ':' . $password );
+curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false );
+curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false );
 
-    open ( $fh, '<', $key );
-    $key = <$fh>;
-    close $fh;
+// Set up a POST request with the payload.
+curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POST, true );
+curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $payload );
+curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
+
+// Make the call, and then terminate the cURL caller object.
+$curl_response = curl_exec( $ch );
+curl_close( $ch );
+
+// Decode and validate output.
+$response = json_decode( $curl_response );
+if( empty( $response ) ) {
+    echo "The cURL call did not return valid JSON:\n";
+    die( $response );
+} elseif ( !$response->status ) {
+    echo "The cURL call returned valid JSON, but reported errors:\n";
+    die( $response->errors[0] . "\n" );
 }
 
-my $domain = $ENV{'_cdomain'};
-
-# Make the call.
-my $response = $ua->post($request,
-    Content_Type => 'form-data',
-    Content => [
-        domain => $domain,
-        cert   => $cert,
-        key    => $key,
-    ],
-);
-
-# Create an object to decode the JSON.
-# Sorted by keys and pretty-printed.
-my $json_printer = JSON->new->pretty->canonical(1);
-
-# UTF-8 encode before decoding to avoid wide character warnings.
-my $content = JSON::decode_json(Encode::encode_utf8($response->decoded_content));
-
-# Print output, UTF-8 encoded to avoid wide character warnings.
-print Encode::encode_utf8($json_printer->encode($content));
-
-=pod
-{
-   "data" : {
-      "action" : "none",
-      "aliases" : [
-         "mail.example.com"
-      ],
-      "cert_id" : "example_com_xxx_yyy_zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz",
-      "domain" : "example.com",
-      "extra_certificate_domains" : [],
-      "html" : "<br /><b>This certificate was already installed on this host. The system made no changes.</b><br />\n",
-      "ip" : "127.0.0.1",
-      "key_id" : "xxx_yyy_zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz",
-      "message" : "This certificate was already installed on this host. The system made no changes.",
-      "servername" : "example.com",
-      "status" : 1,
-      "statusmsg" : "This certificate was already installed on this host. The system made no changes.",
-      "user" : "username",
-      "warning_domains" : [
-         "mail.example.com"
-      ],
-      "working_domains" : [
-         "example.com"
-      ]
-   },
-   "errors" : null,
-   "messages" : [
-      "The certificate was successfully installed on the domain “example.com”."
-   ],
-   "metadata" : {},
-   "status" : 1
-}
-=cut
+// Print and exit.
+die( print_r( $response ) );
 
 END
 
 }
-