While you’ve probably purchased your web hosting account to share at least some information with the public, that doesn’t mean you want all of the data on your site accessible by everyone who happens to stumble on it. In some cases, you may want to organize your data to make it easier to find and, at other times, you might want to restrict data access to yourself or to a select few trusted individuals. cPanel has numerous features that make such control simple. In this chapter, you will learn how to:
Change your main cPanel password
Create and manage subdomains
Use redirects to send visitors and search engines to other web pages
Enable hotlink protection and use it
Manage leech protection
Password-protect directories
Stop users from visiting your site with the IP deny manager
Create custom error messages
We’ll start by looking at one of the most important features that cPanel offers to help keep your data secure.