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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

Password-Protect Directories


Do you have content in your website that you would like to restrict access to? cPanel makes the process fairly painless. The first thing you have to do is to create a directory inside your public_html directory that will contain your protected content. You can name it whatever you like. You can use your FTP client to create this directory or you can use cPanel’s file manager described earlier. Now come back to the Password Protection area. You will see a list of every directory inside your public_html directory and a link for the current folder (which is your public_html directory in this case). If you click the small icon of a folder next to the directory’s name, you will be able to see any directories nested inside that one. This way you can choose to protect a nested directory. If you click on the actual name of the directory, you will be taken to the security and account creation screen.

There are actually two separate things to do on this screen. The top...