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title: "How to Create a Custom Default Page for cPanel Accounts"
description: "When you create a cPanel as a web hosting Reseller, you have an option to copy some standard files to the account, such as a default landing page. For example, you may want a “coming soon” page..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/product-guides/reseller-hosting/custom-default-page/
date: 2013-09-12
modified: 2023-10-18
author: "InMotion Hosting Contributor"
categories: ["Reseller Hosting"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# How to Create a Custom Default Page for cPanel Accounts

When you create a cPanel as a [web hosting Reseller](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/reseller-hosting), you have an option to copy some standard files to the account, such as a default landing page. For example, you may want a “coming soon” page as a placeholder on new accounts, then when your customer uploads their own website files they can remove the existing page.

In this article, I will show you how to upload a custom default landing page via the cPanel File Manager. You can also upload files using FTP, or SSH.

For a file to load by *default*, it must be named: default.htm, default.html, index.htm, index.html, or index.php

## How to Use a Custom Default Page

1. [Login to cPanel](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/cpanel/how-to-log-into-cpanel/)
2. Click the **File Manager** button under *Files* [![](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/cpanel_upload-files_01-file-manager-1024x169.png)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/cpanel_upload-files_01-file-manager.png)
3. In the *left* navigation window, click the **cpanel3-skel** folder, then click the **public_html** folder. [![public_html click](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/reseller_select-public-html.png)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/reseller_select-public-html.png)
4. Click the **Upload** button, then click the **Browse** button and select your *custom default page*, and click the **Open** button. The file will then be uploaded. Now, when you create a new cPanel account, it will include the *default landing page* you just uploaded.

Congratulations, now you know how to use a custom landing page for the cPanels you create.