A fairly common question for scheduled tasks that run in the background is, “Are they running?” These tasks, commonly known as cron jobs, are tasks that need to automatically run for maintenance, backups, and other functional needs for the website and server. In order to determine if your cron jobs are running, you will need Read More >
cPanel
cPanel, often referred to as control panel, is the interface used for making changes to and customizing your hosting account with InMotion Hosting. Some of the great features that cPanel includes are:
- Email: Within cPanel you can create new email accounts, view/modify your existing accounts, modify your MX records, change email passwords, set up mail box quotas and much more.
- Domains: Under the domains section of cPanel, you can configure new domains to your account, set up parked domains, create subdomains, setup redirects, and much more.
- File Management: In the files section of cPanel, you can backup your cPanel account, access/modify files stored in your account, review your disk usage, and create/manage FTP accounts.
- Databases: Here you can create new databases, set up remote access to MySQL, access the databases using phpMyAdmin, and much more.
cPanel is very user friendly and is quite robust. There are numerous tools within cPanel to handle a wide variety of tasks. It contains a full help menu that is easy to use.
Getting Started in cPanel
- How to Log Into cPanel *Highly Recommended
- The cPanel Layout/Interface
- Changing Your cPanel Password
- How to View Your PHP Version in cPanel
- How to Setup Backups in cPanel *Highly Recommended
Using Email
- Creating an Email Account *Highly Recommended
- How to Log Into Webmail
- How to Modify MX Records Using cPanel
Using Softaculous
Softaculous is a tool located within your cPanel you can use to help you easily install other programs. Softaculous does the tedious work involved with software installation. No more uploading installation files or creating and configuring databases, you can now install programs such as WordPress and Joomla by simply clicking a link.
- FAQ – Installing Programs with Softaculous
- List of Programs in Softaculous
- How to Install Programs Using Softaculous
- How to Uninstall Programs in Softaculous
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How to Delete an AWStats Data File
When managing a new website, your webserver may save old data that you don’t want to show in your AWStats statistics. These stats can be cleared out by removing them from your tmp/awstats folder. The stats are stored in text files in regards to the subdomains. To delete a specific domain stats, you can find Read More >
Parse archived raw access logs from cPanel
Navigation: View archived logs Parse IPs Parse User-Agents Parse URLs Parse referrers In this article I’m going to teach you how to parse archived raw access logs from your cPanel VPS (Virtual Private Server) or dedicated server. Reviewing requests from your archived raw access logs can help bring to light a common problematic request or Read More >
Enable raw access log archiving for all cPanel accounts
In this article I’ll quickly show you how to enable raw access log archiving for all cPanel accounts on your VPS (Virtual Private Server) or dedicated server all at once. Raw access logs contain the request data directly from the Apache web service that all of your website have been fulfulling. Without raw access logs, Read More >
How to create and attach a database user in cPanel
Generally, when you want to create a database in the cPanel, using the MySQL Database wizard is the fastest and easiest way. This creates both the database and a user for that database. However, you may need to either add a database user to a database or wish to create a single user you want Read More >
Bypass firewalls with cPanel proxy subdomains
In this article I’m going to review connecting to your cPanel account’s various services, when there is a firewall on your computer or router not allowing a normal connection over the standard ports. There are several default services that come with your hosting account, these operate over a different port than the standard port 80 Read More >
Hotlink Protection using .htaccess and cPanel methods
What is Hotlinking? Hotlinking is when you use a url to view an image in the website code or the image url in the browser. When using url’s in image code, the server does not have to use any bandwidth or http request to serve the image. Say I use a URL to an image Read More >
Changing MX records to point to InMotion servers from third party DNS
MX records help move email to the right place by specifying which server handles the email. If you have an account with us here, but have a domain hosted somewhere else that does not offer email services, you may want to host your email with us here on your InMotion account. This is most certainly Read More >
How to Set DNS Records for 3rd Party Services
In this article, we’ll go over how you can modify your domain’s DNS records, in order to split up your various services between multiple hosting providers. In most cases, the average website owner will have all of their web services with one hosting provider. In some cases though, you might want to split up your Read More >
Complete phpList setup after Softaculous install
In this article we’ll discuss how you can finish the setup of your phpList installation that you did with Softaculous. Now that you have successfully installed phpList onto your website using the Softaculous installer, there are still a few steps left in order to complete the setup and configuration of the software. We’ll cover setting Read More >
Install phpList with Softaculous
In this article we’ll cover how to install phpList with Softaculous. phpList is a popular open source newsletter manager that will allow you to setup and manage multiple mailing lists for your domain from a centralized web accessible location. Softaculous is an easy 1-click application installer that should be available to any shared hosting customer Read More >
Installing TikiWiki through Softaculous
On our shared hosting accounts, Softaculous is available for installing scripts and programs for free. TikiWiki is available in Softaculous for free. The program is located in the Portals/CMS section of Softaculous. This article will explain how to install TikiWiki using Softaculous. Installing TikiWiki with Softaculous Log into cPanel If you are not installing TikiWiki Read More >
Installing MediaWiki with Softaculous
MediaWiki can easily be installed by using Softaculous in the cPanel Software / Services. When the manual installation proves to be to complicated, Softaculous can give the webmaster an easy way to install that is less time consuming. This tutorial will explain how to install MediaWiki using Softaculous. Installing MediWiki with Softaculous Log into cPanel Read More >
Copy an account from another server with the cPanel password
In this article we’ll go over how you can copy a cPanel account from either your previous cPanel host, or another server of ours. To you InMotion VPS or dedicated server with root access set up, and just the cPanel account password of the account you’re copying over. These steps should work for copying an Read More >
How to install SMF 2.0 with Softaculous
In this SMF 2.0 tutorial we will guide you on how to install the program using the Softaculous installer tool. Softaculous is a special program that installs other programs. This saves you time in setting up details such as databases and uploading files manually. Installing SMF 2.0 with Softaculous Log into your cpanel From your Read More >
cPanel updates in progress across network
Update: 12/6/2012 12:35PM EST – At this time all of our shared servers and dedicated servers have successfully had the latest cPanel security updates applied to them. Our VPS fleet of servers is still in the process of having these updates rolled out to them, so if you’re on a VPS server you could possibly Read More >
How to Enable or Disable Advanced DNS Zone Editor in WHM
When managing your cPanel as a web hosting reseller, you may or may not want to allow the individual cPanel accounts to have access to the Advanced DNS Zone Editor. The Basic DNS Zone editor allows the user to choose between two record types, the A record and the CNAME record. Users of the basic Read More >
Using the Zone Editor in cPanel
Understanding How DNS Works Domain Name System (DNS) records are used to provide specific, important details for your domain. The simplest way to understand how DNS records work is to use the analogy of a phone book listing. For instance, when you want to call someone, you look in the phone book for their name. Read More >
Merge multiple cPanel accounts into one account using SSH
In this article we’ll discuss an advanced method for taking multiple cPanel accounts, and merging them down into one cPanel account. You can only have multiple cPanel accounts on a VPS or dedicated server plan. So if you’re looking at downgrading to shared hosting, or simply would like the convenience of managing multiple sites from Read More >
Split a single cPanel account into multiple accounts using SSH
In this article we’ll discuss an advanced method for taking a single cPanel account, and splitting it into multiple cPanel accounts. Multiple cPanel accounts are only available on VPS or dedicated server plans, and splitting up your domains between multiple cPanel accounts can allow you to give away cPanel access to a website owner without Read More >
