There are several different URLs through which you can login to your cPanel. Following are the options through which you can access your cPanel: Access cPanel using IP address and port 2082 http://IP_Address:2082 Replace IP_Address with actual IP address of your hosting provider. Access cPanel using domain and port 2082 If you...
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Secure cPanel Login (HTTPS)
It is recommended to use secure cPanel URL to access your cPanel account. By default cPanel uses self-signed SSL certificate to use secure cPanel URL but it is also possible to install valid SSL certificate to avoid any browser warning. You can access secure cPanel using the following ways: Access secure cPanel using...
cPanel – rsyslogd has failed
You may receive the following error while updating services from WHM -> Service Configuration -> Service Manager: Waiting for rsyslogd to restart………………………………………………………finished. rsyslogd has failed, please contact the sysadmin (result was “rsyslog is not running”). Generally this happens if you enable two logging daemons i.e. syslogd and rsyslogd simultaneously. To resolve this problem, enable...
Add Lync SRV records in cPanel/WHM
You need to add SRV records if you are using Lync (Office 365). Following is the sample SRV record details that you need to add for your domain: Record Type: SRV Service: _sipfederationtls Protocol: _tcp Port: 5061 Weight: 1 Priority: 100 TTL: 1 Hour Name: yourodmain.com Target: sipfed.online.lync.com If you are using cPanel/WHM, you...
How to access Web Disk (WebDav) on cPanel server
The Web Disk feature is cPanel’s implementation of the WebDav protocol. This feature allows you to manage files associated with your website. By creating an account and accessing your Web Disk, you can navigate, upload, and download files to and from your web server as though they were part of your personal computer. How...
How to create a MySQL database from cPanel
1. Login to your cPanel. 2. Once logged into cPanel for the domain (https://yourdomain.com:2083 or use IP address instead of domain name if the domain is not pointing to the server), click MySQL databases under the Databases section. 3. Enter a name for the database and click Create Database. 4. Once the database...
Fantastico error ‘You cannot install more than one script in the root directory of a domain’
If there is no script installed in the root (i.e. public_html etc.) for your domain name but you still get the message stating that you cannot install more than one script in the root directory of a domain, it means that a previously installed script was not properly removed. To resolve this problem you...
Enable gzip compression on cPanel server
To enable gzip compression on cPanel server, mod_gzip.c or mod_deflate.c module should be installed on the server. You can check the loaded module via SSH. Login to you server and use the following command to check the loaded Apache modules: /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -l If one of the module is installed on the server, you can...
Enable “Update now” link in AwStats on cPanel server
To enable the manual statistics update (“Update now” link) in Awstats, you should edit the following configuration file: Open the following file: tmp/awstats/awstats.yourdomain.com.conf (substitute yourdomain.com with your actual domain name) Look for the following line: AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser=0 Change the above value to 1: AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser=1 Save your configuration file. If you have any...
Prevent the user nobody from sending email from cPanel server
If you are running PHP script as an Apache user on cPanel server, it is difficult to find the account if someone sends large amount of emails via PHP script. It is due to the fact that all emails will be sent as a nobody user. cPanel provides settings to block emails which are...
How to change MySQL database collation from phpMyAdmin in cPanel
Sometime you may require to change MySQL collation in your web hosting account to use foreign character encoding. There are many ways to change MySQL collation. Here are the steps to change MySQL collation from phpMyAdmin in cPanel: Login to your cPanel and click on “phpMyAdmin” icon. Click on your database name...
create an email account in cpanel
You can create an email account from cPanel in two easy steps. Follow the below steps to create an email account from cPanel (x3 theme): Login to your cPanel and click on “Email Accounts”. On next screen, enter the email account which you would like to create, enter the password twice and...