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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 9. Working with Scripts

You may be an expert at coding web pages and designing content or you may be a complete beginner. Regardless of your level of expertise, there will probably come a time when you want to add content or features to your website without spending days or weeks coding something or paying someone to create the content for you. This is where pre‑coded web scripts may come in handy. In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Scripts and what you might want to use them for

  • Installing different scripts that cPanel offers

  • Some important advice concerning working with scripts

Before we can take a closer look at the exciting world of web scripts, we first need to know what exactly these things are.

What are Web Scripts?

Web scripts are pages of code that are designed to be accessed on the Internet to accomplish a particular task. You can think of them like applications on the web. Each web script can be written in one of several different programming languages (PHP, Perl, Java, (D or X...