Category: cpanel

cPanel – Webmail ”; Previous Next Webmail is a web-based email client, which allows you to access your emails through any browser or any computer. This is very helpful when you do not have access to your computer on which your email is setup, you can login to your account from anywhere to read your emails and to quickly respond. Opening Your Webmail There are two options through which you can login to your webmail client. Through cPanel Interface Follow these steps to login to your webmail client − Step 1 − Login to your cPanel and click on Email Accounts found under the Email section. Step 2 − Scroll down to find list of Email Accounts. Step 3 − Click on More button at the corresponding email address of which you want to access webmail. Step 4 − Click on Access Webmail and the system will automatically log you into the webmail in a new tab. Step 5 − Choose any Webmail application. You can also set a default Webmail application, so whenever you log into your webmail, your default webmail application will automatically load. Note − I have chosen horde to load webmail Access webmail directly To access webmail directly without logging into cPanel, you can use the following steps − Step 1 − Navigate to https://your–domain.com:2096 or https://webmail.your–domain.com through your browsers address bar. Step 2 − Webmail login screen will appear, Enter your Email and Password of your email account. Step 3 − Press Log in button to login into your web based email client, you will get same interface as we got above. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

cPanel – FTP Sessions ”; Previous Next The cPanel FTP Session interface shows current users, which are logged in to website through FTP. This interface is helpful and it helps you to terminate unwanted connections with one click. To access this feature, click FTP Sessions link from the Files section of cPanel. It will open an interface in which it will show the current users who are logged into your site. If no user has logged in, it will display the message that no users have logged in. Here it will show the following information − Example User Displays username of logged in user liptanxy Logged in Form Displays IP address or hostname of user’s system 106.215.178.204 Login Time Displays Login Time of User Thu Jan 21 13:50:03 2016 Status Displays Sessions status IDLE Process ID System’s FTP Session Process ID 203299 Actions Terminate the connection Disconnect Terminate a FTP Connection If you think that any user is not doing any activity and is in IDLE mode for a long time, or if you think a user is uploading a very large file, or doing something malicious, you can terminate the connection by clicking the disconnect button from Actions. You will see the following prompt. Click on Disconnect “User”, and user’s FTP connection will be terminated instantly. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

cPanel – Backup ”; Previous Next This feature of cPanel is very useful for your website. We can use backup feature for transferring our website to the new host. If we are making a change in the website files or database, we can create a backup of website. So that, if in future anything wrongs happens to the website while editing, we can always restore to as it was before. If any problem occurs with the hosting provider, you will always have a copy of the website. cPanel Backup creates a zipped copy of your entire website or a part of your website. There are two types of Backup in your cPanel Backups. Full Backup Full Backup creates a zipped copy of your entire website and cPanel account. It includes all the files you own or you have access to. It also includes all the databases, email accounts, email lists, subdomain, etc. Full Backups cannot be restored through cPanel interface. It is only used when you are transferring your current host to the new host. You need to upload this zipped backup into your home directory and ask your hosting provider to restore it. To download your full website backup, please follow these steps − Step 1 − Open cPanel Backup by clicking Backup from the Files section in cPanel Home. At the top, you will find Full Backup as shown below − Step 2 − Click on the Big Blue button on which “Download a Full Website Backup” is written and you will be taken to this screen. Step 3 − Select Backup destination, leave it as home directory. This will create a backup in your home directory, from where you can download it later. Enter the email address, where you want to receive a notification, when full backup of your website is ready to be downloaded. As full website backup takes time to generate. Step 4 − Click Generate Backup and you will see a success message of Backup in Progress. To download the Full Website Backup, you can always come back to this page after you receive your email notification and you will see a screen similar to the one shown below. Download your backup by clicking over the backup link. Partial Backups Partial backup is created and can be downloaded instantly. Through Partial Backup, you can download your Home Directory, Databases, Email Forwarders and Email Filters separately. You can restore the downloaded backups any time by uploading them to cPanel using the same interface. To use this feature, open your Backup section using the same method used above in Step 1, scroll down and you will see a similar interface shown here, interface will vary according to your domain and data. You can click Home Directory button to download your home directory backup. To restore your home directory, you can upload the same file in the right hand side interface on which Restore a Home Directory Backup is written. You can do the same with Databases, Email Forwarders and Email Filters. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

cPanel – Quick Guide ”; Previous Next cPanel – Overview cPanel is a Linux-based hosting management control panel. It is used to manage your website and server’s backend working system. It provides graphical user interface for most of the tasks we perform on the website’s server, for example, uploading files, creating emails, setting cron jobs, handling databases, etc. cPanel Users cPanel is installed on a Linux system by the server administrator. With the help of the cPanel Software Server, an Administrator can create Virtual Private Servers or it can dedicate the whole server for shared hosting environment. cPanel Shared hosting has three types of user levels. Server Administrator − This user is the root user of a cPanel Linux Server and has all the permission over the server. Server Admin can create, modify or delete any account from the cPanel Server. The Server Admin has access to cPanel WHM (Web Host Manger), which can be understood as the backend of cPanel. Reseller Accounts − This user is created by the server administrator and server administrator can choose which type of permissions should be given to reseller accounts. A Reseller account can further create user accounts and has access to all those accounts, which they have created. One reseller account does not have access to the user accounts that were created by another reseller accounts. They also have access to WHM with limited permissions. User Account − These are normal user accounts, each user who subscribes for a web hosting from a company, is given this type of account. They do not have access to Web Host Manager. User account can host single or multiple websites according to their plans they have purchased from web hosting provider. Why cPanel cPanel is packed with many features that is not provided by other web hosting management panels. It is graphical, hence, non–technical users can also use it perfectly. cPanel is responsive to the screen size, hence can be used in mobile and tablets. It will automatically adapt the screen size of the device. cPanel is very easy to use and configure. It automatically adjusts all the advanced setting for web hosting. A user hardly needs to go to the command line to configure any settings, as it already has all the features inbuilt. Advantages cPanel offers the following advantages − It is very easy to host a website using cPanel. It is multiannual and available in many languages. It is responsive and adapts to any screen size, it can be used efficiently in mobile and Tablet too. cPanel has in–built File Manager, which helps in managing your files without the hassles of an FTP. cPanel has integrated webmail software, which helps in sending and receiving emails through online webmail client. You can easily create a backup of your website in a few steps. This will help you to restore your backup, if your website encounters any error. You can easily manage your website databases, as cPanel has integrated phpMyAdmin, which helps to directly manage databases. Disadvantages cPanel does not have any significant drawbacks, however here are a couple of its notable disadvantages − cPanel is a commercial software and you need to pay to get this. cPanel is meant for small and medium websites only. Creating a large website using cPanel is not recommended. cPanel – Registering a Domain Name If you have a website developed locally or you have planned to make a website, then there are two things that you will need — a Domain Name and Web Hosting. A Domain name is the address of your website, which will be used by your users to access it. For example, tutorialspoint.com or google.com these are domain names. A domain name has two parts, TLD (Top Level Domain) and SLD (Second level domain), for example in tutorialspoint.com, tutorialspoint is second level domain of TLD .com, or you can say it’s a subdomain of .com TLD. There are many top level domains available, like .com, .net, etc. and also country specified TLD like .in, .uk, .ae, etc. Importance of a domain Getting a domain name of your choice can be very useful. You can use it for many reasons, for instance, you can create the identity of your brand online or you can create a personal blogging website. If you have a business, people will be able to learn about your business remotely. Registering a Domain Name Domain names are registered with a non–profit organization ICANN. It does not let you register your domain directly, but you will have to go with a domain registrar for this purpose. Domain name registrations involve a registration fee for a year, and you have to renew the domain every year by providing a renewal fee. Domain names cannot be purchased permanently at once, but you have to renew it every year, if you fail to renew the domain, it is automatically deleted from registry. If you want to register your domain name, then you will have to follow these steps − Step 1 − Choose a perfect domain name for your website. If it’s a business website, then you may want to go with a domain name, which is the name of your business. Step 2 − Choose a good domain registrar company having good support infrastructure. For example, GoDaddy or BigRock. Step 3 − In the registrar’s website, check if your domain name is available for registration. If the domain you selected has been already registered by someone, then you will have to think of some other domain name. If your domain name is available to register, then you can proceed further. Step 4 − Provide your contact information and everything that the registrar asked for. It is mandatory that you provide correct information while registering a domain name, as it will be visible to everyone if the user looks for WHOIS information. Step 5 − You can hide your contact details by choosing to be viewed by anyone by subscribing

cPanel – phpMyAdmin ”; Previous Next The phpMyAdmin is a third-party tool to manage tables and data inside a database. It is graphical user interface to manage MySQL databases. You can manually create Tables, Import and Export data or edit the values of a row through it. To access phpMyAdmin, click on the phpMyAdmin link, which can be found under the databases section of cPanel Home. You will see a dashboard similar to this. On the left hand pane, there is a list of databases, which can be expended to see the table in each database. On the right hand pane, there is general information of Database server. Execute an SQL Query To execute an SQL Query on a database, we will need to perform the following steps − Step 1 − Select the database from left pane by clicking over the name of the database. Once the database is selected, it will show you the structure of the database. Step 2 − Click on SQL from top bar to open SQL editor. Step 3 − Write your query into the SQL editor. You can also enter multiple queries, separated by semicolon (;). Step 4 − Click Go button to execute the query. If the query is executed successfully, you will get a success message. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

cPanel – Subdomains ”; Previous Next Subdomain is a domain, which is a part of a primary domain and exists in the same server. We can also say it is a second website, which resides under the main domain, however it may or may not have any relation with the root website. we can run a new website under this subdomain. For Example − The blog.tutorialspoint.com is a subdomain for the root domain tutorialspoint.com and blog.tutorialpoint.com can also be accessed by tutorialpoint.com/blog. To Create a Subdomain Step 1 − Click Subdomains, which can be found under Domains section. Step 2 − Enter the Subdomain text you want to create. Select the root Domain for your subdomain and the Document Root will be automatically filled according to your Subdomain. You may leave it as it is or you may change it according to your need. Click Create button to create your Subdomain. If your subdomain is created successfully, then you will see a Success message like the one shown below. Managing Redirection If you want your subdomain to point to another domain rather than loading content from your own server, you can do so by clicking Manage Redirection as shown below. You will be taken to the screen, where you can manage redirection for your subdomain. Enter the new URL, where you want to redirect your subdomain to. Click save and your redirection will be saved successfully. If you want to disable the redirection later on, you may click Disable Redirection. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

cPanel – Optimize Website ”; Previous Next This interface of cPanel helps you to enable gzip compression. Apache allows you to compress the data before sending it to the browser and then web browser extracts the data and displays the webpage. All modern browsers support gzip compression. This gzip compression needs Apache mod_deflate to function currently, which is available in most cPanel installed Linux servers. This compression is very useful, because it helps in compressing data hence our bandwidth is saved, plus it makes our website to load much faster. You can compress specific types of MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) or you can compress all the files using this interface. To enable gzip compression, follow these steps − Step 1 − Open cPanel Optimize Website interface by clicking on Optimize Website link in the Software section of cPanel. Step 2 − In Optimize Website, you will see Compress Content. You can choose from the following − Choose Disable to disable gzip compression. Choose Compress All Content to enable gzip compression for all content. Choose Specified MIME types and provide MIME types in text box. MIME type are similar to file types. It has both file type and file format information separated with a slash. E.g. text/javascript, text/css, image/jpg, image/png etc. Step 3 − Click Update Settings to update the settings. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

cPanel – FTP ”; Previous Next File Transfer Protocol (FTP) allows you to manage your files with third party applications like FileZilla, CoreFTP, etc. Using a FTP file manager to upload files is a great practice when the number of files or size of the files is large. FTP accounts configures users who can upload, download or modify your files through FTP. Each FTP user has his own username and home directory, only that certain directory the user will have access to. To create an FTP account, please follow these steps − Step 1 − Open FTP accounts feature by clicking FTP accounts found under Files Section. Once FTP accounts feature is opened, you will see the following screen. Step 2 − Enter Log in name for your new user, it will be the user’s username, also provide a strong password for this user. Step 3 − Enter Directory for your new user, you may also leave it with pre-filled directory name according to your user. Step 4 − Provide FTP storage quota, you may provide unlimited quota or use some value in Megabytes. Step 5 − Click on Create FTP Account and Your FTP account will be created. Configure FTP Client To configure your FTP client, you can download any pre-built configuration file by clicking Configure FTP Account. You can download FTP Configuration files for FileZilla or CoreFTP, which are windows software or Cyberduck for Mac. Special FTP Accounts These FTP accounts are pre-built with hosting account and cannot be deleted, these are used for administrative purposes. One of the Special FTP account is your Administrative FTP account, whose username will be same as your accounts username. This FTP account’s home directory is your cPanel accounts root directory. You can access all the files of your account with this FTP account. Its password will be the same as your cPanel account password. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

cPanel – Image Converter ”; Previous Next Image converter can be used for converting image format of any image. It can convert from one supported type to any other supported type. To use Image converter, open the interface by clicking Converter link from Images section. Step 1 − Navigate to the directories by clicking on folder icon on the left hand side, as we did above. Step 2 − Select the File or Folder which you want to resize by clicking on the Name of File or Folder. Note − Image Converter can be used with a single file or folder. Step 3 − Select new file type from the prompt as shown below, which can be − Portable Network Graphics (.PNG) JPEG (.JPG) GIF (.GIF) Bitmap (.BMP) Step 4 − Finally Click on Convert to convert the file type. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

cPanel – Errors ”; Previous Next This function will display the last 300 errors for your site. This can be very useful for finding broken links or problems with missing files. Checking this log frequently can help keep your site running smoothly. This can help you to debug your website errors. It will take you to the following interface. This list of the errors occurred on this domain related to any issues. In this case there are no errors on this domain. You can frequently check this error log to see if there are any errors related to your website. It will be helpful for you to troubleshoot and resolve the errors. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;