Category: Tutorials

This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to cPanel, and are starting on the home screen. Let’s learn how to set up additional FTP accounts.

1. This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to cPanel, and are starting on the home screen.
2. Now let’s learn how to setup hotlink protection.
3. Click the “Hotlink Protection” icon.
4. Hotlink protection prevents other websites from directly linking to certain files (typically images) on your website. You’ll want to prevent this if you have copyrighted images, or to simply save on bandwidth usage. You’ll first want to make sure your own sites are listed here, so you are able to hotlink to your images.
5. Enter all the file types you want to protect …
6. … and check the “Allow direct requests” box if you want to give the ability to manually enter URLs of a protected file.
7. Enter the URL you want to redirect to, for anyone who tries to hotlink to your files or images.
8. Then click “Submit”.
9. That’s it! You’ve successfully enabled hotlink protection.
10. To disable hotlink protection, click the “Disable” button.

1. This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to cPanel, and are starting on the home screen.
2. Now let’s learn how to create a subdomain.
3. Click the “Subdomains” icon.
4. Enter the prefix of your new subdomain.
5. Make sure the domain name your subdomain will be associated with is selected. A directory name the same as your subdomain prefix will automatically appear… although you can change this if you want.
6. Click the “Create” button.
7. That’s it! A new subdomain has been created.
8. A new folder called “clients” has also been created, which is where you would upload files for this subdomain.

1. This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to cPanel, and are starting on the home screen.
2. Now let’s learn how to create an addon domain.
3. Click the “Addon Domains” icon.
4. This is the addon domains page, where you can setup additional domain names that point to subdomains of your account.
5. Enter the new domain name …
6. Then enter a username.
7. Enter and confirm a password, then click “Add Domain”.
8. That’s it! The addon domain has been created.

1. This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to cPanel, and are starting on the home screen.
2. Now let’s learn how to create a domain alias.
3. Click the “Aliases” icon.
4. A domain alias is useful when you have additional domain names that you want people to be able to use to get to your website.
5. Enter the new domain, then click “Add Domain”.
6. That’s it! Now when someone browses to mybiz123.info, they’ll automatically be redirected to mybiz1234.com.
7. Be sure to set your domain alias’s DNS settings to the same as your main domain, so the redirection will work properly.

This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to cPanel, and are starting on the home screen. Now let’s learn how to create a MySQL database.

1. This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to cPanel, and are starting on the home screen.
2. Now let’s learn how to use the Index Manager.
3. Click the “Indexes” icon.
4. The Index Manager enables you to control how directories on your website are displayed.
   If there is no index.html file in a given directory, the contents of that directory will be listed in a browser. This can cause security issues. With Index Manager, you can set your account up to not allow your directory contents to be shown.
5. Let’s setup Index Manager for the client’s directory.
6. There are four settings to choose from.
7. The “Default System Setting” allows the directory contents to be shown. “No Indexing” does not allow directory contents to be shown. “Standard Indexing” prevents browsers from viewing contents of directories that do not contain image files. “Fancy Indexing” displays file names and information, such as file size and the last-modified date.
8. Since we do not want the contents of this directory shown, we’ll choose the “No Indexing” option.
9. That’s it! The index settings have been updated, and visitors can no longer view the contents of the clients directory.