How to create an add-on domain
An add-on domain will direct its visitors to a subdomain on your account. You can add your other domains as add-on domains to your hosting account and share your hosting account's resources. Before you can add a domain as an add-on domain, you will need to change its name servers (DNS) to Doteas ...
- How to create POP email account
1. Click the Email Accounts icon under Mail. 2. Enter the new email address for this POP account. Note: If you have more than one domain in your account (ie. with domain parking or addon domains), be sure to choose the correct domain for which you want to create your POP email account). 3. Then ...
- How to setup email forwarding
This feature allows a copy of any email sent to one address to be forwarded to another address. This lets you use one account to check mail sent to several email addresses. You can also discard email or send (pipe) mail to a program. Please note that any email account with BoxTrapper enabled s ...
- How to use webmail from within cPanel
You can actually login to your webmail account without first logging in to cPanel. To do that, simply type the following into your browser: http://www.yourdomain.com/webmail If you want to access your email account from within cPanel, you will need to: 1. Click the Webmail icon under Mail. 2. C ...
- How to enable BoxTrapper
The BoxTrapper feature allows you to block unwanted email. BoxTrapper functions as a spam filter for email addresses. The filter works through “challenge-response” verification. When an email is sent to an account that has enabled BoxTrapper, a verification email is automatically sen ...
- Create a backup your site using Backup Wizard (Full Backup)
This feature allows you to download a zipped copy of your entire site or parts of it onto your computer. The following are backed up and included in a zip file for your convenience: Home Directory MySQL Databases Email forwarders configuration Email filters configuration 1. Click on the Bac ...
- Create a backup your site using Backup Wizard (Partial Backup)
To back up a portion of your site using the Backup Wizard: 1. Click on the Backup Wizard button under Files. 2. Click on the Backup button. 3. Select the portion of your site to back up by clicking Home Directory, MySQL Databases, or Email Forwarders & Filters. 4. Click the button on th ...
- Restoring your site using the Backup Wizard
This feature allows you to restore parts of your website by uploading the backup files that you've previously downloaded from the backup wizard. 1. Click on the Backup Wizard button under Files. 2. Select Restore from the first page. 3. Select the portion of your site you would like to restor ...
- SSL/TLS Manager
The SSL and TLS features are intended to make your website more secure. These features generate and manage SSL certificates, signing requests, and keys. This is useful for websites that will use logins and credit card numbers, since information will be sent to and from your website over the In ...
- MIME Types
MIME types relay information to the browser about how to handle file extensions. Adding MIME types is useful for enabling visitors’ browsers to handle new technologies as they come out. cPanel lets you add new MIME types to your web server by defining a name, directory, and corresponding f ...
- Domain Lookup and Trace Route
This area of cPanel’s interface contains tools for retrieving network information. For instance, you can look up an IP address or trace the route from your computer to the computer on which your website is hosted (your web server). Domain Lookup cPanel’s Network Tools will execute ...
- How do I update my contact information in cPanel?
To update your contact information in cPanel, you can use the Update Contact Information feature. This feature allows you to change your primary contact email addresses. These email addresses will function as the main contact points for notifying you of new information regarding your website. I ...
- Changing your MX Record
An MX record is used by a mail server to route incoming email. Changing your MX record is usually done to redirect email to a remote server. It can also be used as a temporary backup in case the local mail server goes down. 1. Click the MX Entry icon under Mail. 2. Choose the domain for which t ...
- How to manage the Raw Access Logs
The Raw Access Log manager is where you tell the system how to manage the Raw Log files that are generated daily for your account. 1. Click the Raw Access Logs icon under Logs. 2. For this tutorial, let’s tell the system to archive logs every month. Click the checkbox. 3. Click the Save ...
- Accessing your website statistics via Webalizer
1. Click the Webalizer icon under the Logs section. 2. Choose a domain by clicking on the applicable magnifying glass.
- How to control FTP sessions
This function displays general information about who is logged into your FTP server. This information includes the account name, IP address, login time, current status, and process ID of the current user. To disconnect users from an FTP session 1. Click on the FTP Session Control icon under File ...
- How to create additional FTP accounts
1. Click the FTP Accounts icon under Files. 2. Enter a login name and password. 3. If you leave /user2 in the directory box, then the user of this FTP account will only have access to the /user2 directory and all folders under it. To give the user access to the entire website, delete everything ...
- Viewing your disk space usage
1. Click the Disk Space Usage icon under Files. 2. This page shows you where disk space usage is distributed within your account’s home directory. It can be useful when you need ot know what is causing you to reach a disk space quota. 3. The Disk Usage Summary section shows the first leve ...
- How to manage URL redirects
Redirects allow you to make a specific web page redirect to another page and display the contents of that page. This way you can make a page with a long URL accessible by a page which has a shorter and easier to remember URL. 1. Click the Redirects icon under the Domains section. 2. Choose whet ...
- How to park a domain
Domain Parking is useful when you have additional domain names that you want people to be able to use to get to your website. For example, let’s say your domain name is yourdomain.com, but you also own the domain yourdomain.net. If you park on of the domains on the other, then both will re ...
