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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

Logging into cPanel


Once you’ve signed up for a web hosting account you will likely receive an e-mail with important account information. Please follow the directions you receive and do not delete that information; you may need to refer to it again some day.

If you are ready to start exploring cPanel, launch your web browser. There are two ways you can log into your cPanel account:

  • Securely (recommended): https://domain.com:2083/ or https://111.111.111.111:2083/. If you log in securely you will probably receive a warning about the security certificate not matching. This is normal in this case. Accept the certificate and continue with logging in.

  • Insecurely (non-encrypted connection): http://domain.com:2082/ or http://domain.com/cpanel or http://111.111.111.111:2082/. Although using this method probably won’t display a warning message, let me warn you that the first method is safer and less prone to interference. Use it if you can.

Note

Any time you see domain.com in this book, replace it...