cPanel User Guide and Tutorial Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Introduction to cPanel Hosting
• Webmaster, Meet cPanel…
• What Tools Will You Need?
• Finding cPanel Web Hosting
• Types of Web Hosting
• Windows versus Linux Hosting
• Hunting for Hosting
• The Quest for Features
• Questions to Ask Hosting Companies
• How's the Company's Support?
• What Special Features does the Company Offer?
• What are the Company's Hosting Policies?
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Getting Started with cPanel
• Logging into cPanel
• Logging into cPanel from Behind a Firewall
• The Main cPanel Interface
• General Account Information
• Resource Usage
• Mail and FTP Information
• General Server Information
• Programming Language and Database Information
• cPanel Information
• Summary

• Chapter 3: FTP and cPanel's File Manager
• FTP Basics
• General FTP Tools
• Configuring your FTP Client for use with your Main FTP Account
• Creating and Managing FTP Accounts in cPanel
• Creating a New FTP Account in cPanel
• Monitoring your FTP Usage in cPanel
• Anonymous FTP Access
• cPanel FTP Session Control
• Other Types of FTP Connections
• Secure FTP
• FXP Transfers
• cPanel's File Manager
• A Few Words about File Permissions
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Working with Mail
• Why Manage your Own Email Accounts?
• Common Email Terms
• Accessing cPanel's Email Features
• Managing POP3 and IMAP Email Accounts
• Creating an Email Account
• Configuring your Email Client to Use your New Address
• Changing Advanced Email Options and Monitoring your Email Account
• Web Mail
• Accessing Web Mail
• Email Forwarders (Aliases)
• Email Domain Forwarding
• Mailing Lists
• Dealing with Unsolicited Email (SPAM)
• SpamAssassin
• SpamBox
• Email Filtering
• BoxTrapper
• Virus Scanning using ClamAV
• Default (Catch All) Email Address
• Email AutoResponders
• Advanced Email Tools
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Working with Databases
• Database 101
• Working with Databases in cPanel
• Creating a Database
• Creating a Database User
• Adding a User to a Database
• Removing or Repairing a Database
• phpMyAdmin and phpPgAdmin
• phpMyAdmin
• phpPgAdmin
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Controlling Access to and Organizing Your Data
• Changing your cPanel Password
• Subdomains
• Redirects
• Hotlink Protection: Stop People from Stealing Content
• Password-Protect Directories
• Leech Protect: Keep Users from Giving Away Access to your Site
• Index Manager
• IP Deny Manager
• Custom Web Error Messages
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Keeping an Eye on Account Activity
• Web Statistics: What's Going On?
• Raw (Apache) Web Logs
• Raw Log Control
• Web Stats to the Rescue!
• Analog
• Awstats
• Webalizer
• Urchin
• Statistics Configuration
• Other Related Tools
• Last Visitors
• Bandwidth
• Error Log
• Disk Usage
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Backing up and Restoring Data
• Backups and their Importance
• Home Directory Backup
• Database Backup
• Email Aliases (Forwarders) and Filters Backup
• Full Backups
• Automated Unattended Backups
• Restoring Backups
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Working with Scripts
• What are Web Scripts?
• The Scripts cPanel Offers for Installation
• The Scripts Library
• Advanced Guestbook
• b2Evolution
• Coppermine
• cPSupport
• e107
• Geeklog
• Invision Power Board
• Mambo Open Source
• Nucleus
• osCommerce
• PHPNuke
• phpBB
• phpWiki
• PostNuke
• WordPress
• Xoops
• Chat Rooms
• Entropychat
• Melange
• phpMyChat
• Shopping Carts
• AgoraCart
• Interchange
• CGI Center
• CGIWrapper
• Random HTML
• Simple Guestbook
• Advanced Guestbook
• Counter
• Clock
• Countdown
• CGI Email
• FormMail Clone
• Entropy Search
• Entropy Banner
• Third-Party Addons
• Finding Other Web Scripts
• Advice on Working with Scripts
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Advanced cPanel Features
• Welcome to cPanel 102
• FrontPage Extensions
• Addon Domains
• Parked Domains
• Cron Jobs
• SSH/Telnet
• MIME Types
• Apache Handlers
• OpenPGP Keys
• SSL Management
• Network Tools
• Domain Lookup Tool
• Traceroute Tool
• cPanel Pro
• Image Manager
• Leech Protect
• ClamAV
• Submit a Support Request
• Summary

• Chapter 11: Site and Account Security
• Site Security and You
• The Security Plan
• What to do if the Worst Happens
• Step One: Contact Your Web Host
• Step Two: Restore and Verify All Data and Secure Site
• Summary

• Chapter 12: ThirdParty Additions to cPanel
• cPanel Themes: New Look, New Features
• cPanel's Other Themes
• Blue Lagoon
• Monsoon
• Xmail
• X2
• ThirdParty Themes
• 7Dana
• Ace
• BlueCrush
• CoolBreeze
• CPANEL XP Evolution
• cpSkins
• iCandy
• InteliSkin
• Java
• Radiance
• RVSKIN
• Simskins
• Stainless Steel
• Trix
• Winterfall
• XController
• ZabrinskiPoint
• ThirdParty Addons
• Fantastico: The Original Script Autoinstaller
• Autoinstaller: More Scripts for cPanel's Script Library
• OpenInstaller: Additional Script Library Scripts, for Free
• MailScanner cPanel Front End: Kill Email Nuisances before they Reach your InBox
• Exploring MailScanner Front End's Many Features
• How does MailScanner Handle Mail?
• Other ThirdParty Addons
• Summary

• Chapter 13: Useful Tools and Links and the Final Curtain Call
• FTP Clients
• Additional cPanel Information
• Basic Webmaster and Scripting Assistance
• Domain, DNS, and Site Monitoring Tools
• Password Storing Programs
• Curtain Call

• Appendix A: Glossary