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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

Chapter 10. Advanced cPanel Features

We have already covered a vast number of features that cPanel offers, but there are still more that we haven’t discussed yet. So in this chapter we will explore:

  • How to enable and disable FrontPage Extensions and learn why you may or may not need them

  • Creating and managing add‑on and parked Domains

  • Creating Cron Jobs and learning what they can be used for

  • The basics of working with SSH/Telnet

  • Editing MIME Types and learning what they are used for

  • Adding Apache Handlers and learning their uses

  • The cPanel interface for creating and storing OpenPGP keys

  • How to manage SSL certificates using cPanel

  • The advanced Network Tools cPanel offers

  • What cPanel Pro is and what new features it provides

If any of this sounds like it might be of use to you, please read on.

Welcome to cPanel 102

The various features we will be exploring in this chapter are all somewhat more advanced than we’ve discussed thus far. Most people can safely ignore the features mentioned here without adversely...