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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 6. Controlling Access to and Organizing Your Data

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.

Changing your cPanel Password...