The Unofficial cPanel Tutorial
cPanel is one of the most popular control panel and server management software systems on the market today. With the growing rate of users, many have problems understand certain parts of the control panel and can not utilize them to its fullest. This tutorial is an in-depth look at cPanel and the different aspects of the system.
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Understand the Layout
Understanding the layout of cPanel will aid in learning how to utilize it for everything it's worth. This article will explain how cPanel's layout works and how to use it properly.
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Mail and Webmail
The Mail sections of cPanel offers users a plethora of options and utilities. From this section users can do anything dealing with mail and a website.
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Change Password
This section of cPanel is used to change the master password.
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Domain Names
The "Domain" and "Addon Domain" section of cPanel allows users to manager anything with domain names on their account.
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FTP Manager
The FTP Manager is the heart of everything to do FTP (File Transfer Protocol). Everything dealing with FTP is all located in this one section of cPanel.
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File Manager
The file manager can come in handy for many different things. The most important aspect of the file manager is its ability to replace an FTP program.
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Error Pages
Creating custom error pages is as easy as 1 - 2 - 3. With cPanel's custom error page creator, anyone can have totally custom error pages.
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Sub Domains
Creating and managing sub domains is very easy with cPanel's Sub Domain section. Within this section users can manger any aspect dealing with sub domain names.
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Disk Usage
This section of cPanel will allow a user to view all the disk usage within their accounts. Disk usage is very useful for those that host others and want to find out which users are using too much disk space.
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Backup
The backup section of cPanel is a very useful tool for many webmasters. If a user needs to move to a new host, this section could also be very useful.
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Password Protected Directories
In this section users have the ability to password protect as many directories as they wish. This function is very good tool for webmasters that want to password protect certain sections of their site, or for webmasters that sell memberships to sections of their site.
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SSH/Shell Access
cPanel boasts a feature rich SSH client built directly into cPanel. Now anyone can manager their website like the pros do.
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Redirects
Redirects are very useful for site owners moving from folder to folder, or updating their site. These can be used to direct users to a new section of the site or to a new domain name all together. Webmasters can also set these up for other users to use as short URLs.
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FrontPage Extensions
Users have the ability to add and remove FrontPage Extensions from this area. FrontPage extensions allow a user to publish their website directly through FrontPage.
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Web/FTP Stats
This section is vital to any webmaster that keeps up with the traffic to their site or sites. This is another main section of cPanel and displays very important information. Users can see allot that is going on with their web sites and server just from this section.
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MySQL Databases
This section of cPanel is a very useful section for anyone that uses MySQL databases for their site. Users have the ability to create and manage any aspect of a MySQL database right from this section of cPanel.
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Raw Access Logs
The “Raw Access Logs” section will give a user the ability to download the raw access logs for any given domain name on their account.
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Raw Log Manager
In this section of cPanel, users have a few options to control how log files are stored on their account.
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Error Log
This is a very useful section of cPanel as it displays all the 404 errors or “File does not exist” error.
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Sub Domain Stats
cPanel has made an entire section devoted to nothing but sub-domains stats. This section is very useful for users that have a large amount of sub-domain names that they'd like to view the stats for.
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Search Engine Submit
SEO experts don't rejoice just yet. This section isn't one of these mass submission tools that will submit a user's site or URL to thousands of search engines, FFA pages, and link directories.
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Chatroom
The chat room can offer users a very simple setup to create an online chat room in a matter of minutes for their site. Simply copying the displayed HTML code into a page and uploading it to their account.
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PhpMyChat
PhpMyChat is a simple and easy to setup script that will do a very similar thing as the “Chatroom” script does, but users have more features and options with this chat script.
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Bulletin Board
The bulletin board section is for users that would like to setup their own bulletin board system. The system is setup so users do not have to deal with the hassle of actually uploading and configuring all the files need to run a bulletin board system.
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CGI Center
The CGI Center is a great resource for any webmaster. Within this section a user has the option to install and utilize a multitude of CGI scripts.
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Scripts Library
The Scripts Library section of cPanel is a special section setup for hosts and other providers to allow certain scripts to be available to their users or clients.
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Agora Shopping Cart
In this section of cPanel users can install the feature rich Agora Shopping Cart. The Agora Shopping Cart is a power full online shopping cart system that will allow users to start their own ecommerce style store online.
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Cron Jobs
Crons are a very use full tool for any webmaster that has a lot of repetitive tasks that they need accomplished often. Crons can be used to automate just about anything from backing up a MySQL database to running a script or program on the server.
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Network Tools
The network tools section of cPanel is a great little addition that has a few simple tools that can be very useful at times.
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MIME Types
MIME types or Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, are used to tell the browser how to handle certain extensions.
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Apache Handlers
Apache Handlers are basically the same thing as MIME Types except they aren't telling the browser how to handle a file, they are telling the server how to handle them.
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Manage OpenPGP Keys
OpenPGP is a tool used for secure online communication, it's a non-proprietary protocol used to encrypt email using public key cryptography.
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Hotlink Protection
Hot linking is probable one of the most popular ways for users to steal bandwidth and copyrighted material from other webmasters.
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Index Manager
The index manager is a great tool for most users that have directories and directories of just plain files, images, or documents.
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IP Deny Manager
The IP Deny Manager is a great little program that's included into cPanel. It can cause big problems for those users that get their IP block, because just as the name implies, it will block an IP address completely from access a site.
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Fantastico
Fantastico is just how the name implies it's fantastic. It's one of the more popular 3rd party add-ons that can be purchased and added to cPanel.
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