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How to Password-Protect a Directory in cPanel Lock a folder behind a login prompt. Learn how to password-protect a directory in cPanel to hide staging sites, admin areas and private files.
How to Use Git Version Control in cPanel cPanel has Git built in. Learn how to create or clone a Git repository, deploy code, and manage version control for your site right inside cPanel.
How to Find Your Website's Document Root and Home Directory Confused about where your website files live? Learn what the document root and home directory are, and how to find the exact paths in cPanel.
How to Check and Change File Permissions in cPanel File Manager Wrong file permissions cause errors and security holes. Learn how to check and change file and folder permissions safely in cPanel File Manager.
How to Read the Metrics Section in cPanel (Visitors, Errors, Bandwidth) cPanel's Metrics section is a goldmine for understanding your site. Learn how to read Visitors, Errors, Bandwidth and Raw Access logs in cPanel.
How to Clone a Website to a New Domain Using cPanel Need a copy of your site on another domain? Learn how to clone a website to a new domain in cPanel by copying files and the database, step by step.
How to Add a Custom MIME Type in cPanel Files downloading instead of opening, or fonts not loading? Learn what MIME types are and how to add a custom MIME type in cPanel to fix it.
What Is cPanel and What Can You Do With It? New to cPanel? Learn what cPanel is, what you can do with it — email, files, databases, SSL and more — and how to make the most of your hosting.
How to Enable Force HTTPS Redirect in cPanel If you have an active SSL Certificate on your website, you should use automatic https redirection on your website. If you are VernalWeb customer, you can enable Force HTTPS Redirect in cPanel. Google…
How to Setup and Manage Cron Jobs in cPanel Cron job allows you to automate certain commands or scripts on your site. You can run the command or script to run at a specific time every minute, hour or even a day. Today we will learn how to…
How to restrict access to your website using .htaccess and cPanel IP Blocker Sometimes you may have unwanted visitors in your website and you may want to prevent access for these types of users. You can restrict access to your website using .htaccess file or cPanel IP…
How to restore Files & Folders with JetBackup JetBackup is one of the best cPanel backup plugins. Today We will show you how to restore files or folders with JetBackup. Step 1: Log in to your cPanel account and navigate to the JetBackup. Step 2:…
How to backup your website in cPanel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp3YTTAdA8s We assume you’ve already logged in to cPanel, and are starting on the home screen. Now let’s learn how to backup our website. Click the Backup Wizard icon.…
How to change the primary language in cPanel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIrefVV7-hE We assume you’ve already logged in to cPanel, and are starting on the home screen. Now let’s learn how to change the primary language. Click the Change…
How to change your cPanel password https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAgnkvKfv4Q We assume you’ve already logged in to cPanel, and are starting on the home screen. Now let’s learn how to change the cPanel password. First, enter your old…
How to create a subdomain in cPanel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jQBsUZao3g We assume you’ve already logged in to cPanel, and are starting on the home screen. Now let’s learn how to create a subdomain. Click the Subdomains icon.…
List of Ports to Open for WHM & cPanel Server Generally WHM & cPanel servers are used for shared hosting environment where security is most important. So for best security practices, we should always block all unnecessary ports in firewall…
How to View the Error Log in cPanel cPanel allows the users to view errors generated by their website. The error log in cPanel shows HTTP errors that occur when visitors try to view your site, this log contains the time, date, error…
How to Check your Account’s Disk Usage in cPanel To check your account’s disk usage in cPanel, follow these steps: Log in to your cPanel account. In the main dashboard, look for the “Metrics” section and click on the “Disk Usage” icon. A new page…
How to Switch Your cPanel’s Theme to Jupiter? To switch your cPanel’s theme to Jupiter, follow these steps: Log in to your cPanel account. In the “Preferences” section, click on the “Change Style” icon. From the “Select a New Style” dropdown…
How to Disable Directory Listing in cPanel cPanel is a widely used web hosting control panel that offers a plethora of features for managing websites and servers. One crucial aspect of website security is preventing directory listing, which…
How to take a Full Website Backup from cPanel One can find thousands of Hosting Services Provider out there over the internet. As a result migration between two hosts has become a simple issue that people are facing now a days. Here we’ve tried…
How to Change or Update cPanel Account Password Very often we need to change or update Password of our cPanel Accounts for various reasons. Changing cPanel Account’s Password is a easy task to accomplish. Let’s learn how to Change or Update cPanel…
How to login to cPanel Account cPanel is the industry standard Control Panel for Web Hosting Services. Almost all the popular Web Hosting Service Providers offer cPanel to manage their Shared/Reseller Hosting Services. All the…
How to upload files using File Manager in cPanel cPanel is the most popular Control Panel for Linux based Web Hosting Services in Web Hosting Industry. All the things you need to get best out of your website is included in cPanel. File Manager is…
How to backup and restore emails in cPanel manually cPanel account migration is a common issue now a days. Migration from server to server is very easy and most of us are used to do it as it is automatic. Email accounts are automatically transferred…
How to enable/disable allow_url_fopen and allow_url_include functions allow_url_fopen: For security reason, in shared hosting account allow_url_fopen is disabled by default. If you want to enable this function, you need to modify the custom php.ini file.…
How to Change the cPanel Primary Domain Each cPanel account has a primary domain. If you need to change the primary domain name of your account, submit a ticket to our support department mentioning cPanel account username , existing main…
I Have Created an Addon Domain, Why Did it Say Subdomain Added? An addon domain is a fully functional domain so don’t worry about it when it shows that subdomain added. An addon domain contains its own emails, forwarders, new contents and everything like a newly…
What is subdomain? How to create and delete a subdomain? If you want to run a fully new website but do not want to buy a new domain for that there is a way to upload the contents of your new website by creating a subdomain using your existing domain. The…
How to create 404 custom error page in cPanel There are many cases when an user visits your website and can not find the expected page or content. May be the page is wrong or has already been removed. In this case, your website shows a default…
Access Shared Hosting Account via SSH By default, we don’t allow SSH Access for oue shared hosting customers. However, if you must require SSH access on our shared cPanel servers then we may be able to provide you with a “jailed” SSH…
How to Upload a File to Server There are several ways to upload a file to your server whether it is has cPanel or any other control panel. Usually people prefer to use 2 methods like: File Manager FTP Client Let’s learn how to use…
How to Compress and Extract Files Using File Manager File Manager is a very important feature in cPanel. Today we will learn how to compress & extract files using file manager in cPanel. How to Compress Files to Zip File Step 1: Login to your…
How to show Hidden Files (.htaccess) in cPanel File Manager Some times you may not find some files in your cPanel file manager. But these files exist. Actually these files are hidden files. You can view your hidden files in your File Manager. Let’s learn how…
Setup a Domain Redirection in cPanel You can redirect your one domain to another domain from cPanel redirect option or using .htaccess file in the file manager. If you use cPanel Redirect option, the redirect rules are added in.htaccess…
Cron Job Usage & Policy What Is a Cron Job? Cron Job is a standard Linux utility which we use to schedule a command or script to run automatically at a specified time and date. It is like the schedule task in Windows. Cron…
How to create/remove Addon Domains Almost all the Hosting Solution Providers are allowing several Add-on Domains with their Shared Hosting Services. Addon Domains are domains hosted on that same Hosting Account. Add-on Domains do not…