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cPanel User Guide and Tutorial

By : Aric Pedersen
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cPanel User Guide and Tutorial

By: Aric Pedersen

Overview of this book

"A great book for getting the most out of your cPanel-supporting web host" If you have web hosting requirements beyond the most basic, you should look for a host that offers cPanel. cPanel gives you tight control over every aspect of your web site, email accounts, and domain names. But once you've got a web site with cPanel support, how do you go about using it? While the documentation included with cPanel may provide a quick reference, to really get the most from it you need a more detailed, systematic tutorial. Read this book to find out exactly how to get the most from cPanel in all aspects of your web site management: web, email, FTP, security, domains, back ups, and more.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
cPanel: User Guide and Tutorial
Credits
About the Author
Preface
Glossary

Creating and Managing FTP Accounts in cPanel


Depending on your hosting plan, you may not be limited to just a single main FTP account. Why would you need more than one? You probably don’t if you are the only person who will ever make changes to your website. However, if you have another person or group of people help you edit your website, you shouldn’t give them access to your main FTP account to edit files.

Note

Security Note: Because the main FTP account login is the same as your cPanel login you should never give it to anyone else. If someone needs FTP access to your account, you can create a separate FTP account for him or her unless your hosting plan does not allow it.

If you would like to create or manage additional FTP accounts in cPanel, you should log into your cPanel account and then click on the FTP Manager icon. Then from the menu of options that appear, select FTP Accounts.

There will probably already be two or more FTP accounts listed here as main account. You can’t delete or...