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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

Hotlink Protection: Stop People from Stealing Content


If you run a website where digital content (pictures, files, and so on) is your livelihood, then you may want to turn on this feature. Hotlink protection will stop people on other websites linking directly to your files unless they have approval from you.

To turn this on you need to define:

  • The list of domains that are permitted to link to your files. cPanel will automatically add any of your own domains to the list of approved domains but feel free to edit these as needed.

  • The list of file extensions (JPG, MP3, and so on) that you want to protect. cPanel will automatically add a list of common file extensions but feel free to edit these as needed.

  • A URL to redirect people to if they try to hotlink to your files (typically a page on your site that says Sorry, you can’t access this file unless you are a member of my site.)

  • If you want to allow people who manually type an address pointing to one of the files on your website to access the file...