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cPanel – Images ”; Previous Next With this feature of cPanel, you can manage and modify your Images directly through its Interface. The image must be uploaded into your account to use this feature. To access cPanel Images, click Images Link found on your files section. This feature includes the following tools − Thumbnailer Converter Thumbnailer creates small images or Thumbnails of the original image. This is done by using these images wherever required as it could save more bandwidth. For example, when we need to display a preview of the photo, which will then be opened into a new tab, when the user clicks preview image. We can use a small image here, rather than forcefully scaling the image to display in a small size. To use Thumbnailer converter, we can open the application by clicking on the Thumbnailer link from images section. We will get a similar dashboard as shown below. Step 1 − Navigate to the desired directory from which you wish to create Thumbnails, to navigate within directories use folder icon on left hand side. Step 2 − Select folder from which you wish to create thumbnails, by clicking on the name of folder displayed in middle. Note − Thumbnailer is a bulk thumbnails creator tool, single image cannot be used in these tools. Step 3 − In Scale Percent, text inputs enter the percentage by which you wish to shrink the image. Select Keep aspect ratio to maintain original proportion of the Image. Step 4 − Finally click on Thumbnail Images to create thumbnails. The system will automatically create a subfolder, Thumbnails into selected folder and all files in that folder will be converted and saved there with a prefix tn_. For example, if you have an image abc.png, then it will be saved into tn_abc.png. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

cPanel – Disk Usage ”; Previous Next cPanel Disk Usage is a very efficient way to monitor your accounts available and use disk spaces. This feature scans your disk to provide you a graphical overview of the Disk usage. It displays disk space used by directories, but it does not show how much space is consumed by an individual file. It also displays information of disk quota used by MySQL Databases, hidden directories and Emails. It helps in management of disk quota, because once you know which directory has the largest files, you can navigate to that directory using file manager and delete unnecessary files. To access this feature, click Disk Usage link from Files section of cPanel. cPanel Disk Manger has mainly two tables. The first table gives you information about disk space used by subdirectories of home directory and space used by other features like MySQL, Mailing Lists. Please refer to screenshot below. The Second Table displays a directory structure, which has all the subdirectories including hidden ones, to open a directory to view space used by that sub-directory, you can click on the arrow shown in front of the name of the directory. Clicking on the name of directory will take you to the File Manager. In this table, you can see which subdirectory has the largest files in them, it is very helpful when there are lots of directories in your account. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

cPanel – Visitors ”; Previous Next This interface of cPanel allows you to view the statics and analytics for your domains. These simple metrics feature helps you to get the idea about your performance and optimize the quality of your websites. Step 1 − Click on Visitors icon under Metrics section of cPanel Home. You will see the list of domains available. Step 2 − For details related to a particular domain, just click View indicated right after the domain name. Here the obtained table is divided in five columns i.e. IP (Internet Protocol), URL, Time, Size, Referring URL. IP (Internet Protocol) − The IP address of the visitor network computer. URL − It refers to the full URL of the page content. Timestamp − The date and time when the user visits the particular URL. Size − The bytes consumed by the user for loading the URL content. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

cPanel – File Manager ”; Previous Next cPanel File Manager gives you useful options to quickly manage your files within the cPanel interface. It’s easy to use and it removes the hassles of using FTP. You can create, upload, modify or remove files from this interface. It also gives the feature of moving files to Trash before permanently deleting them, from which it can be recovered later. To open the file manager, click on File Manager in the Files section. It will open a new tab and once you are in File Manager, you will see a Dashboard like this. cPanel File Manager gives you a lot of flexibility for Navigating within your files. You can use file manager for following tasks. Searching for a File To search for a file, use the search bar on top of the File Manager Dashboard. You can search within all your files, public_html or current directory, then write the file name in next input box and click go to search for a file. Note − public_html is folder in cPanel, all the files which are accessible from the frontend of your website are stored in this directory. Index.html or index.php found in this folder loads first, when somebody accesses your website from frontend by your URL. File Manager Settings To access cPanel File Manager Preferences, click setting buttons from the top of the Dashboard. You will see a Prompt as shown below. By default, cPanel File manager opens the Home Directory of your account, when opening the cPanel. But, we can override this by choosing it with Web Root, which is public_html folder of Public FTP root or with a Document root of your domain or any subdomain you create. In Linux, hidden files have a single Dot (.) in front of them. The default cPanel File Manager does not display them, but you can choose to show hidden files by enabling Show Hidden Files (dotfiles) option. When we open a text file, which may be HTML, PHP or Plain Text file, cPanel opens a dialog to check the character encoding of the file, to ensure maximum compatibility, when editing the file. You can disable this feature by selecting – Disable Character Encoding Verification Dialogs. Working with File Manager Creating a File To create a new File, navigate to the directory, where the file needs to be created and then click New File from the Dashboard. A prompt opens and asks you the file name. Enter it accordingly with the extension of file and Path, where the file will be created. Finally, click Create New File and a new file will be created. Creating a Folder To create a new Folder or Directory, navigate to the directory in which you want to create the folder. Click on New Folder from the Dashboard. A Prompt will be opened to ask you name of your New Folder. Enter your desired Folder name and Click Create New Folder. Your new folder will be created. Copying You can copy a single file or folder or even multiple files or folders. To copy a single file or folder select what you want to copy with a single mouse click over the it and Click Copy. You will be asked the file path where you wish to copy the file or folder to, enter the Path accordingly and click Copy File(s). To copy multiple files or folders, single click on the desired files or folders by holding down the ctrl key to select multiple files or folder and then click on copy. Enter the desired location and Click to Copy File(s) button to copy multiple files. Moving You can move a single file or folder or multiple ones. To move a single file or folder, select the one that you want to move with a single mouse click over it and Click on Move. You will be asked the file path where you wish to move the file or folder to, enter the Path accordingly and click on Move File(s). To move multiple files or folders, single click on the desired files or folders by holding down the ctrl key to select multiple files or folder and then click on move. Enter the desired location and Click to Move File(s) button to move multiple files. Uploading a File To upload a file from the cPanel File Manager Interface, navigate to the directory in which you wish to upload and then, click Upload. You will find the interface shown below. You can Drag and Drop the file to upload or you can select the file from Select File button. If you want the File Manager to automatically overwrite the files with same name, you can select – Overwrite existing files checkbox. Downloading a File To download a file from the cPanel File Manager, you can select the single file or multiple files with single click on file name, and click over Download to download the files. Deleting a File or Folder To delete Single or Multiple file or folder just select the files with single mouse click and click on Delete button. You will get a prompt for sending the files into Trash, if you want to permanently delete the files then select Skip the Trash checkbox. If the check box is not selected, files are moved to Trash Folder from where you can recover them later. Renaming a File or Folder To rename a File or Folder, select the file or folder with a single mouse click and Click on rename. You will get a prompt to enter new file or folder name. Enter file or folder name accordingly and click on Rename File button to save. You can also double click on Name of any File or Folder to rename the file. Text Editor To edit any text file with simple text editor, select the file and click on Edit button. You will get a prompt with Encoding check if enabled, then click on

cPanel – Statistics & Dashboard ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will discuss about the cPanel statistics and the dashboard along with a few examples and screenshots for better understanding. cPanel Statistics The statistics interface of cPanel shows quick statistics of your cPanel account. It includes several types of information shown below. To view quick statistics of your cPanel account, click on second icon statistics from sidebar at left. You will find this information in cPanel quick statistics. General − It will show you the amount of bandwidth allotted to your account and also the amount of bandwidth, which is used by you. It will also show you the FTP accounts available in your cPanel account. It will also show the information of your Home directory and the IP address, from which you logged in last time. You can click on the Server Information to view the detailed information of your server. Domain Info − In the next box, it will show you the information of main domain and the number of add-on domains, subdomains and aliases you have created. Mail Info − This section will show the information about your emails. It will tell you how many email accounts, Autoresponder Forwarders and Filters you have created along with the total number of resource allotted. Disk Space − In this section, the total disk space of your account is shown and also the amount of space used by MySQL database is shown along with total amount of space allotted to your account and MySQL database. Database − This section shows the info of total number of databases you have created along with the total number of database you can create. System Information − In this section, the statistics cPanel shows you the information of your system with total CPU usage, virtual and physical memory that is being used. It also displays information of the process you are running, the Input and Output uses and also it displays number of inodes, which means the number of files. cPanel Dashboard Through this interface you can see some brief statistics of your cPanel account plus you can change the theme of your cPanel account. To access your dashboard, you can click on the third icon ‘Dashboard’ on the left sidebar. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

cPanel – Styles ”; Previous Next You can change cPanel’s look and feel using this interface. cPanel has two major interface styles in which you can manage your web hosting. Although these interface is very standard, but these can be modified by your server administrator or reseller account admin to change its logo and icons etc. To modify your cPanel Style follow these steps − Step 1 − In cPanel Home click username written over the right corner of your dashboard. Step 2 − Click Change Style option. You will find Change Style Interface. Step 3 − Choose any style option from the available styles, click Apply button which can be found over the top of the style to load the new style. Step 4 − cPanel will automatically reload to apply the new setting and you will find a new interface according to the one you selected. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

cPanel – Contact Information ”; Previous Next In this interface of cPanel, you are allowed to change the system email address. It is the email address on which the system can notify you for important updates. You cannot use your system email address or any email address, which is connected with your domain, so that you do not lose any important update, when the system is down. To update your contact email, follow these steps − Step 1 − In cPanel Home, click username on the right corner of your dashboard. Step 2 − Click on Contact Information option. You will find Contact Information Interface. Step 3 − Enter the email address on which you want the system to contact you for important notifications. Step 4 − You can enter a second email address on which you can receive the copy of that email sent on your primary email. Step 5 − You can choose the options of an event on which the system should send you notification in contact preference. It is recommended that you leave every checkbox selected. Step 6 − Click the Save button to save your contact preference. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

cPanel – Directory Privacy ”; Previous Next This feature of cPanel allows us to protect certain directories with a username and password. If a directory is protected by this, then if somebody from the front end of your website tries to access the file, they will be prompted to provide a username and password, if username of password does not match, then the user will not be able to see the content of that directory. To configure a password for a directory, use the following steps − Step 1 − Open Directory Privacy Configuration by clicking Directory Privacy in the Files Section. Step 2 − Navigate within your directories to find the directory you want to protect. Use icon on the left hand side to open a directory. Step 3 − Select the directory you want to protect by clicking on the name of the folder, you will get same configuration as shown below. Step 4 − Select Password protect for this directory checkbox and enter a Label which you wish to display in the frontend, click Save to protect this directory. Step 5 − To give access to users, you will need to create users. Enter username and password to create a new user, who will have access to this directory from the frontend. Step 6 − Click Save to give access to this user. You can also create more than one user here. If you now try to access your password protected directory, you will get a prompt like this − You can now enter the username and password to access this directory. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

cPanel – Registering a Domain Name ”; Previous Next 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 privacy protection service. This service hides all your contact information to everyone except the registrar, this service is provided by many domain registrars at some extra cost. Step 6 − Complete the purchase by paying the registration fees. Domain name will be registered to you. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

cPanel – Home ”; Previous Next Once you are logged into cPanel dashboard, you will see that it has so many options. In this chapter, you will find a quick brief of every option shown in the cPanel dashboard. Sidebar You can switch to your accounts’ four main areas of cPanel through this interface, which are − Home − This is where you can access all the features of cPanel. Statistics − Displays information about your cPanel account and also the resources it used. Dashboard − Displays quick links to change styles etc. and overview of your cPanel account. User manager − Here you can manage the users of your cPanel account. Navigation Bar On this toolbar, you will find the cPanel’s logo and a search box in which you can type any function of cPanel to access it quickly. Like your User account name and some quick links, once you click on it. The Notification Icon will show you the recent notifications about your cPanel account. Logout button will end your session (log you out) from the cPanel. Feature List It displays all the features and functions you have in your cPanel. You can click on any function and it will take you over to the desired functions interface. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;