In This Tutorial: Enable cPanel DAV Daemon Open Ports in Firewall Testing The cPanel DAV Daemon enables a set of extensions that allow users to manage website data remotely. For example, CalDAV is an extension that grants multiple devices access to manage calendar data on a remote server simultaneously. With CalDAV, you can create, share, 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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cPanel Auto Config for iOS
How to Automatically Set Up Email on iOS Devices When adding a Mail account on an iOS device specific details about the email account are necessary. cPanel includes a Mail Client Automatic Configuration Script that can be used with iOS for iPhone/iPad/iPod. This script will securely provide the necessary details of your email account, in Read More >
How to Install Magento 2 via Softaculous
In this tutorial, we will show you how to Install Magento 2 using Softaculous. This saves time by allowing you to easily setup Magento web hosting with just one click. We also have a helpful guide if you want to setup Magento manually. Installing Magento 2 Log into cPanel. Click Softaculous Apps Installer in the Read More >
cPanel App for iOS
Recently, cPanel released the cPanel App for iOS which allows you to maintain your server from anywhere you take your iOS device! This means that you can connect your iPhone/iPad directly to your server for cPanel, Webmail, and WHM access. The following guide will show you how to setup the cPanel App using an iOS Read More >
How to Use the WordPress Manager in cPanel
If you have many users on your account using WordPress as their website solution, then you may want to consider using the cPanel WordPress Manager. You can learn how to use the WordPress Manager for installations, uninstalling, and automatic updates. This tool will make it easier to track and setup your WordPress installations. NOTE: The Read More >
How to Enable the WordPress Manager in cPanel
WordPress is a popular software application that is very often used to build websites on the internet. cPanel has provided a separate administrator tool that allows you to manage WordPress sites from a cPanel account. It allows you to install and reset passwords for the administrator account of the WordPress installation. The following article will Read More >
How to Change Passwords using the cPanel WordPress Manager
One of the more important features of the cPanel WordPress Manager is the option to change passwords. You can change the administrator user password and the database user password. This can help with the frequent requests for people who have lost or forgotten their admin password or for situations when there is a change in Read More >
How to Remove the cPanel Cache Manager
In this tutorial, we will show you how to remove the cPanel Cache Manager from your server. This can be helpful if you are uninstalling NGINX and no longer need to manage cache from cPanel. **Note: This procedure requires “root” access, which you can get in a VPS hosting environment. If you need assistance making Read More >
How to Install the cPanel Cache Manager
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install the cPanel Cache Manager. The cPanel cache manager allows you to easily manage our NGINX cache and perform tasks such as purging cache, enabling developer mode, setting default refresh time, etc. Warning: The cPanel Cache Manager only works with our NGINX cache configuration. **Note: If Read More >
How to Install OpCache on your cPanel Server
cPanel server administrators don’t need the terminal to install OpCache. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install OpCache on your cPanel server. OpCache can easily be set up on your server via WHM using EasyApache 4 (EA4). **Note: If you need assistance making changes to your server, we offer professional Managed Hosting Read More >
Cache Manager for cPanel
The cPanel in your WordPress Hosting server uses Nginx as a powerful caching proxy in front of Apache. This means your visitors will enjoy quick page loads with less effort on your part. As the site administrator or developer, you have access to a new suite of tools in your WordPress-optimized cPanel. What Does This Read More >
How to Use cPanel’s User Manager
In cPanel you can manage your FTP, Email, and, if enabled, Web Disk users from a single location. You can add new users, link existing users, and delete them, too. In this article, we will show how to use the User Manager. Keep in mind that Web Disk is not enabled on our business and Read More >
How to Create an SRV Record in cPanel
cPanel allows you to make DNS changes using the Zone Editor. One common DNS record that users need to add is an SRV record. Please keep in mind that these changes, as with all DNS changes, may take up to 4 – 24 hours to take effect. This article will show you how to add Read More >
New cPanel Interface: Paper Lantern
Topic: cPanel’s upgrade from x3 to Paper Lantern. Status: Updates will be completed no later than June 30, 2017. Updates will begin the first week of May. We do not have specific schedule for individual servers. Who is impacted? All Business Class & Reseller Hosting Customers. Keep in mind, as we update the server that Read More >
How to Update cPanel in your VPS
Note that cPanel creation is no longer unlimited. For more information, please see cPanel Pricing Changes. You can see the pricing that now applies to cPanel licenses. To learn more about the change, please see our FAQ on cPanel Pricing. Note that you will need root access in order to use these directions. These directions Read More >
Your Free cPanel-signed Hostname SSL Certificate
Issue: cPanel has issued a free SSL certificate for your server’s hostname. Status: SSL will be installed automatically today. Who is impacted? Customers with a VPS/Dedicated hosting plan. You may have received an email from the cPanel team with a subject heading that follows: <em>Your Free cPanel-signed Hostname SSL Certificate</em>. Read further to learn about Read More >
How to Change your cPanel Language
This guide will show you how to change your language preference in cPanel. When you first access your cPanel it will be in English, but there may be times when you want to change this to a different language. As an example, your designer may prefer to use cPanel in German or Japanese. Changing your Read More >
How to Update Contact Information in cPanel
In this article, we will cover the basic steps involved in updating your cPanel contact information. cPanel only requires that you use an email address where you can be reached for important system notifications like disk quota warnings, change of preferences, external logins, password changes, and more. Updating your cPanel Contact Information In order to Read More >
How to Find Your Server Name in cPanel
In this tutorial, we will show you how to find your server name in cPanel. The server name is for the actual server that hosts your website files and is good to know at times. For example when you are trying to identify if we are performing maintenance on your server. Find Your Server Name Read More >
How to Import Email Accounts and Forwarders into cPanel
In this article, we will explain how you can import a list of email addresses and email forwarders into a cPanel account. This can be incredibly useful for beginners and advanced users migrating content from one cPanel to another. Or, if you want to create a massive list of users from a spreadsheet instead of Read More >
