When setting up a new CentOS 7 server, you may find yourself looking for control panel software that will allow you to manage your websites and web applications in a graphical user interface. One of the most popular web hosting control panel solutions is cPanel/WHM. This software gives you a comprehensive control panel interface that 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. 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
Logging Into cPanel
The cPanel Layout
Changing Your cPanel Password
How to View Your PHP Version
in 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
More cPanel Tutorials:
How to Restore a cPanel Backup via SSH
When attempting to perform your own cPanel transfer, you may find yourself wondering how to restore the file using SSH commands. The good news is that cPanel has built in scripts that make backing up your account and restoring it on a new server relatively simple. In this article, we will outline how to back Read More >
How to Add a BIMI Record in cPanel
Many email applications currently support Gravatar for showing images alongside sender email addresses. It’s been around for a long time, and it’s integrated with some some major websites and applications (e.g. WordPress), so this shouldn’t be too surprising. But there’s a new way to accomplish this without creating another online account. Below we’ll cover: What Read More >
How to Kill MySQL Processes in phpMyAdmin
There are many ways to monitor MySQL performance. Your hosting plan and access levels are the main determining factors in how you’re able to view MySQL processes. If you’re using a content management systems (CMS) (e.g. WordPress or Drupal), you may be able to monitor MySQL processes within its dashboard and 3rd party add-ons. Regardless Read More >
Changing your PHP Version in cPanel
The latest versions of cPanel make it easy to choose what version of PHP your site is using. With just a few clicks, you can switch between different versions and even use different versions across sites in the same cPanel. This is especially helpful when upgrading older sites, troubleshooting, or dealing with third-party applications. Let’s Read More >
How to Manage AutoSSL Certificates in cPanel
After you have enabled AutoSSL in WHM then the next step is to make sure that the certificates have been added to your account. You can manage the certificates in the cPanel using the SSL/TLS interface. The following article applies to Shared Business Hosting customers as well as Reseller customers. Please note this cPanel warning Read More >
How to Install NGINX on cPanel
In this article, we will outline how to install the popular NGINX web server software on your VPS or Dedicated Hosting account. Installing NGINX allows your web server to cache content and increase server performance. This ultimately translates into faster websites and better experiences for end users. The NGINX installation process requires both root WHM Read More >
Propagation – How Long do DNS Changes Take?
When changing hosting providers and moving your website and/or email to your new host, you’ll notice that it takes a while for the change to be completed across the web. Once a DNS change is made, root nameservers and cache records will need to update their cache with the new server information, allowing your website Read More >
Why cPanel — What Features are in cPanel?
Why cPanel? cPanel is a web hosting control panel designed for ease of use. It is the most popular tool of its type in the world and included on many of InMotion Hosting’s plans. cPanel allows you to use various tools by way of a Graphical User Interface (GUI). This makes account management much easier Read More >
DNS and Nameserver Changes
Nameservers for Shared, VPS, & Dedicated Accounts (not Resellers) Nameservers for Resellers (Not Shared, VPS or Dedicated Accounts) Changing Nameservers at Other Registrars To get your domain working on your server with InMotion Hosting, you will need to point your domain to our server. You can point your domain Using a DNS change or you Read More >