cPanel Tutorials

Directory Indexes and Hidden Files in cPanel Controlling directory listings, what an index file does not achieve, and what should never sit inside public_html. How to Create and Restore Backups in cPanel What cPanel's full and partial backups each cover, how restoring actually behaves, and why your host's backups are not a substitute for your own. How to Make a Development Copy of a Site in cPanel Copying a site is four steps. The two that get missed are the configuration file pointing at the new database, and stopping the copy from being indexe... How to Password Protect Directories in cPanel Putting a server-level password in front of a directory, what it protects that an application login cannot, and where it backfires. How to Use File Manager in cPanel Browsing, uploading and editing files in cPanel, with the public_html rule and the hidden-file setting that cause most beginner confusion. Includes a screen recording How to Use Web Disk and WebDAV in cPanel Web Disk mounts your hosting account as a folder on your desktop. It is genuinely convenient for occasional edits and genuinely unsuitable for moving ...

Email Routing and Track Delivery in cPanel The two cPanel tools that answer where mail should go and what happened to a specific message. How to Create and Manage Addon Domains Creating an addon domain, the three fields cPanel asks for, and how addon, subdomain and parked domains actually differ. How to Create and Manage Subdomains Creating a subdomain in the panel, choosing the document root, redirecting, removing it without leaving files, and panel-side problems. Includes a screen recording

How to Manage Database Users and Privileges The three-step creation, which privileges to grant, one user per application, and what does not survive a restore. Includes 2 screen recordings How to Manage MySQL Databases with phpMyAdmin Working with MySQL through cPanel and phpMyAdmin, including the privilege step that causes most connection errors and the serialized-data trap. Includes a screen recording

Apache Handlers and MIME Types in cPanel These two screens are rarely opened and occasionally the exact answer. One tells the server what to do with a file extension; the other tells the brow... Git Version Control in cPanel Hosting a Git repository on cPanel and deploying from it, without publishing your history or your credentials. Includes a screen recording How to Configure PHP Settings in cPanel Changing the PHP version and its settings in cPanel, the order to do them in, and what silently resets when you switch version. How to Install Applications with Softaculous Installing cleanly, the auto-upgrade trade-off, staging and cloning, and removing an installation without leaving orphans. How to Set Up Cron Jobs in cPanel Setting up a scheduled task in cPanel, the three things that stop one working, and the WordPress cron replacement done properly. Includes a screen recording How to Use cPanel API Tokens Creating and restricting tokens, using them safely, what they cannot reach, and reviewing them periodically. MultiPHP Manager and Choosing a PHP Version Setting a PHP version per domain, upgrading in the right order, and the three reasons a version refuses to change. Includes a screen recording Running Node.js and Python Applications in cPanel Setting up an application, the virtual environment, the assigned port, and when the plan is genuinely the limit. cPanel Terminal and SSH Access Reaching a shell on a shared account, what it can and cannot do, and the commands worth knowing.

How to Manage SSH Keys in cPanel Generating locally, importing and authorising, passphrases and agents, one key per machine, and reviewing the list. IP Blocker and Leech Protection in cPanel What cPanel's blocking tools actually achieve, when leech protection applies, and what to do instead in the common cases. ModSecurity: What It Blocks and Why It Blocks You Recognising a ModSecurity false positive, finding the rule that caused it, and what the firewall does not protect against. Two-Factor Authentication in cPanel Enabling two-factor on cPanel, what it protects and what it does not, and why resellers should start with WHM.

Compression and Cache Headers in cPanel Enabling compression and setting cache headers correctly, the versioned-filename rule that makes long caching safe, and what to measure. How to Manage FTP Accounts in cPanel FTP accounts are usually treated as a convenience and are really an access decision. The account most people hand out reaches everything, and the one ... Includes a screen recording How to Set Up Calendars and Contacts in cPanel What it provides, connecting a device, where it fits, disk usage, backups, sharing, and testing synchronisation properly. How to View and Analyze Website Statistics in cPanel What cPanel's server-log statistics are genuinely good for, how to read the Visitors view, and why the numbers differ from your analytics tool. Includes a screen recording Introduction to cPanel Control Panel A first orientation in cPanel: logging in three ways, the five sections that cover nearly everything, and what to set up on a new account. Reading the Disk Usage Screen in cPanel Finding where the space actually went, the four usual culprits, and the file-count limit that fails while showing free space. Includes a screen recording Understanding cPanel Error Logs and Troubleshooting Which log holds which kind of failure, how to read an entry, and the reproduce-then-read technique that cuts the search down to one minute. cPanel Contact Information and Notifications cPanel emails you when the account is nearly full, when a login looks suspicious, and when a certificate fails to renew. All of it is worthless if the...