Dreamtilt Webhosting Cpanel Guide

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cPanel Guide
1 Hosting Info
1.1 Hosting with Dreamtilt 4
2 Welcome to cPanel
2.1 Logging into cPanel 2.2 Get to know cPanel 5 6
3 cPanel Preferences
3.1 Getting Help in cPanel: Wizards and Tutorials 3.2 Changing your Contact Information 3.3 Customizing cPanel 3.4 Bookmark cPanel 10 12 13 14
4 Working with E-mail

4.1 Creating New E-mail Accounts 4.2 Configuring E-mail Clients 4.3 Modify Existing E-mail Accounts 4.4 Working with Webmail 4.5 Combatting Spam 4.6 Mail Forwarders 4.7 Creating Mail Forwarders 4.8 E-mail Autoresponders 4.9 Handling Unrouted E-mail 4.10 Setting up Mailing Lists 4.11 Server-side E-mail Filtering 4.12 Whole Account Server-side Filters 4.13 Testing E-mail Routing 4.14 Importing E-mail Accounts and Settings 4.15 Combat E-mail Spoofing 4.16 Changing MX Records 15 17 20 22 25 30 32 34 36 38 40 42 43 45 47 51
5 Working with Files

5.1 Backing up and Restoring Data 5.2 Backup and Restoration Wizard 5.3 The cPanel File Manager 54 60 62
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6 Web Logs and Statistics

6.1 The Latest Visitors Log 6.2 Bandwidth Usage Logs 6.3 Web Stats 6.4 Raw (Unprocessed) Web Logs 6.5 Account Error Log 6.6 Dreamtilt Analytics Panel 77 79 80 81 82 84
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7.1 Password Protected Directories 7.2 Deny Website Access by IP Address 7.3 SSH (Shell) Access 7.4 Hotlink Protection 7.5 Stop People from Sharing Account Information to your Site 7.6 Mail Encryption with GnuPG 85 87 88 93 95 97
8 Managing your Domains

8.1 Subdomains 8.2 Addon Domains 8.3 Parked Domains 8.4 Domain Redirection 8.5 Simple DNS Zone Changes 99 102 105 107 109
9 Databases
9.1 Working with MySQL Databases 9.2 MySQL Database Creation Wizard 9.3 PHPMyAdmin 9.4 Enabling Remote MySQL Access 111 115 116 117
10 Software and Services

10.1 CGI Software 10.2 Add/Remove Software 118 119
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12 Advanced Features
12.1 Apache Handlers 12.2 Image Management 12.3 Web Index Management 12.4 Custom Error Pages 12.5 Cron Jobs 12.6 Network Tools 12.7 MIME Types 136 138 140 142 144 147 148
13 Extra Apps for Webhosting

13.1 CP Control Panel iPhone and iPad 13.2 Piwik Mobile 2 150 152
14 Closing
14.1 Final Thoughts 153
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Hosting Info
Hosting with Dreamtilt Your Webhosting Partner
We at Dreamtilt would like to thank you for choosing to host with us. We look forward to serving your hosting needs for years to come. This guide is your complete, one-stop shop to learn about all of the many great features that cPanel and Dreamtilt offer you. It is organised the same way features in your cPanel account are, so if you are looking for information on a specific feature, just scroll down the guide until you come to the section you are looking for. When you signed up with us you would have received an e-mail with important account information. This account information allows you to sign into cPanel webhosting. Your online Dreamtilt account is your central account management and support portal that helps you manage all of the services you have with us, pay bills or request support. If you have any questions or have any sales or support queries, please feel free to contact us, anytime. We are here for you. Just log into your online account at: https://billing.dreamtilt.com.au Enter your Dreamtilt webhosting account email address and password and you can submit a support request directly to us. Alternately, you can submit a request for assistance via our website contact form at any time. To do so, go to: http://www.dreamtilt.com.au/contact-us NOTE: For security, some types of requests cannot be handled via our website contact form. It is best to submit requests regarding account details or account changes via the support ticketing system in your Dreamtilt online account login.
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Welcome to cPanel
Logging into cPanel
To manage the various features of your new website you will need to log into a special webbased control panel (called cPanel). To do that, you need to open your web browser on your computer. cPanel works well in nearly any modern web browser on any computing platform. For example, web browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome will all work ok. Some older version browsers may not work as well with cPanel. Please update your web browser software if needed if you are having problems viewing cPanel in older web browser versions. Load your web browser and then type one of the following items into your web browser (they will all take you to the same place). Please note: Replace yourdomain.com" with your own domain name. http://yourdomain.com/cpanel http://cpanel.yourdomain.com http://yourdomain.com:2082/ https://webhost.dreamtilt.com.au:2083 http://webhost.dreamtilt.com.au:2082 NOTE: The Dreamtilt webhost address that start with "https://" will connect to cPanel in a secure way that will help make sure that no malicious third-party could be looking at what you are doing (unless they have access to your actual computer, of course). It is preferable that you use this more secure method.
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No matter which address you enter into your web browser, you will be prompted for your account username and password. Your cPanel username and password were provided to you when you signed up for an account. Please retain this information in a safe and secure location!
Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Login Screen
The username is not case sensitive, but the password is case sensitive. Be careful when typing. If you type in the wrong username and password too many times, the system may block you and you'll need to contact us to gain access to your account again.
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Getting to Know cPanel

Once you successfully log into your cPanel account, you will see a screen similar to the one above. Note that the first time you log in, you will probably see another popup that asks if you want to go through the tutorials or not. You certainly can do this if you wish and cPanel will walk you through some common tasks and explain more to you about how web hosting works. However, since you are reading this document, you can safely skip the tutorials for now. Be sure to check the "do not show this again" check box in the popup before clicking on YES or NO unless you want to see that popup again. You can always go through the tutorials at any time later by clicking on the Getting Started Wizard option at the top of your cPanel (see the step below).
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NOTE: The screenshots in this document show a demo account, the exact feature set you have may vary. At the top of the screen you will see a link on the left called (1) "Home." Clicking this from whatever screen you are on will instantly take you back to the screen pictured above (the home screen). On the right side you will see links for (2) "Help" and (3) "Logout." Clicking HELP will bring up a new window with explanations of the various features you will find in cPanel. LOGOUT will log you out of cPanel and offer to let you log in again. Under that, on the left side is a (4) sidebar that contains information about both your website and the server that your website is hosted on. The sidebar will show you commonly used information as well as tell you how much of your available disk space you are using, how many databases or domains you are using (out of your total), etc. On the right side, taking up most of the screen are (5) several boxes with links to the various features of your web hosting account. We will discuss each of the available features in-depth a bit later. NOTE: If you ever need to find a particular feature in your cPanel account later and you cannot remember where it is, you can use the (6) FIND feature in the sidebar. Type a word or two about the feature you are looking for, and the features that match what you've typed will be highlighted to the right. One feature in the sidebar that is not visible in the screenshot above is account shortcuts. Once you start clicking on features, cPanel will keep track of which features you access most often and insert a box in the sidebar with text links to those commonly used features. This means you won't have to search around looking for features you use all the time. The list will change over time so it always reflects your most used features.
cPanel Home Page Bottom of Screen
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(1) This row of links helps you modify your cPanel home screen. The first item, "Hide Icons" will do just that, remove the small pictures above each feature and leave only the text links to those features. This will improve the loading of cPanel if you have a slow Internet connection. "Reset All Interface Settings" will reset any changes you've made to the cPanel interface and put things back so they look similar to the screenshots above (2). You can collapse the boxes containing features by clicking on the small arrow to the right of each box in the title bar.
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If you want to expand each box you've collapsed, just click the fourth link in this row "reveal all boxes." (3). You can also move the boxes of features around by dragging their title bars up and down and then dropping the box where you want it to be. For example if you want to move the Advanced box up so it appears before the Domains box, just drag the title bar up to the space between Security and Domains and then let go. (4) At the very bottom of the screen, there are text links that will bring you back to the cPanel home screen, a link that will take you to a page showing you the various trademarks owned by cPanel Inc., a link to basic cPanel help, a more detailed "Documentation" link that will go into more detail about cPanel and finally, another link to log out of your cPanel account. Now let's take a look at the features your web hosting account comes with. We'll discuss each feature in the order that they appear on cPanel's home screen.
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cPanel Preferences
Getting Help in cPanel: Wizards and Tutorials
cPanel walks you through basic account setup features.
cPanel Help Getting Started Wizard
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There are several ways to get help with your cPanel account, some of which we already discussed. The first two features in the Preferences box on the cPanel home screen are two more ways. The Getting Started Wizard will walk you through the most common things most people want to do the first time they access cPanel. It also explains more about how web hosting works. This wizard will take you step-by-step through setting the default language in cPanel (pictured above), how to access your web hosting account and how to put files in your account, setting up e-mail accounts, changing your cPanel password, etc. All of these features are available separately on the cPanel home screen, so you shouldn't feel like you have to follow the wizard if you don't want to. NOTE: You can jump to other steps in the wizard by selecting them from the (1) drop-down box on the right and then clicking GO.
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cPanel Help Getting Help Video Tutorials
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Not only is there text-based help in cPanel, but also you can view a number of easy step-bystep videos just by clicking on Video Tutorials on cPanel's home screen. This will take you to the page presented above where you can learn how to do each of the tasks listed. Each video has a high and low quality version. If you have a slow computer or Internet connection, choose the low quality link. Otherwise, click the High quality link to learn how to do the tasks listed.
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Changing your Contact Information

Make sure you update your contact information so your hosting account can contact you if there are issues you should deal with.
Stay in the Know Update Contact Information
cPanel has the ability to send you an e-mail when certain important things happen (or are about to happen) with your hosting account. In order to ensure you get these notifications, you need to tell cPanel how to get in touch with you. You can set up your notification preferences by clicking on the Update Contact Information item on the cPanel home screen. When you do, you will see a screen similar to the one above. Enter at least one valid e-mail address into the appropriate box, check or uncheck items that you do or do not want to receive e-mails about and click the SAVE button. NOTE: It is highly recommended that you enter at least one e-mail address and that at least one e-mail address not be hosted on this server (i.e., an e-mail address that doesn't end in @yourdomain.com). The reason for this is if there is a problem with the server or your hosting account, you will still be able to receive warning e-mails at another address. Also, keep in mind that if you enter two e-mail addresses then both e-mail accounts will receive email from your cPanel account at the same time. Adding your contact details here does not send subscribe you to any third-party mailing lists nor does it update or change your details in the Dreamtilt online account details, it is only used by the server itself to send you important automated information.
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Customising cPanel
You can change the way cPanel looks or the language it uses.
Customising cPanel Changing the Style of cPanels Default Theme
If you are not happy with how your cPanel looks, you have a wide variety of choices for changing it. To try a different theme, click Change Style on the cPanel home screen. You will be presented with thumbnails of several different styles you can choose. Choose the radio button under the style you want to use and click the CHANGE STYLE button. Your new style will take effect immediately. NOTE: CleanPanel is the default style of Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel's theme (the one demonstrated in these screen shots).
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Customising cPanel Changing the Language Setting
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If you click on Change Language on the cPanel home screen, you can select from several different languages. Simply select a language from the list and click CHANGE to switch to that language. NOTE: Not all languages available in cPanel are full and complete translations. If the chosen language file does not have a translation for an item in cPanel, then the English translation will be used. cPanel Inc. maintains the language files, so future updates to cPanel may add/remove/update the available languages.
Bookmark cPanel
Add a bookmark to cPanel in your web browser.
Customising cPanel Changing the Language Setting
cPanel makes it easy to add your web hosting account as a bookmark in your browser so you can easily access it again later. Click on Shortcuts on the cPanel home screen and then drag one or both of the two displayed links into your browser's bookmark or favorites menu or tool bar. From there you can select the saved bookmark to go directly to your cPanel account or webmail.
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Working with E-mail

Creating New E-mail Accounts
cPanel offers you the ability to create and manage unlimited e-mail accounts. These emailaccounts will all end in @yourdomain.com. If you want to look more professional, you should onlyuse e-mail accounts that end in your domain name (yourdomain.com) for business because thatmakes you look more professional than using an e-mail address from your ISP or Google for business. All e-mail related features can be found in the Mail section on the cPanel home screen. We'll discuss the individual features in this chapter.
Creating Email Accounts
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To create or manage e-mail accounts, click on Email Accounts on the cPanel home screen. Your account permits you to create as many e-mail accounts as you need. To create a new e-mail account, enter the details into the grey box at the top of the screen where it says "Add a New Email Account" Type the username of the new account into the field next to the word (1) "Email:" and if you have more than one domain added on or parked on your hosting
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account, you can select the domain from the drop-down box after the "@" (at) symbol. Type the password you want the new account to have into the (2) "Password:" and "Password (Again):" fields. The "Password Strength" meter will fill up as you type your password. A longer bar means your password is more secure. Click the GENERATE PASSWORD button to have cPanel create a secure password for you, if you prefer. Finally, you can specify how much of your available disk space you want to allow this one e-mail account to use in the (3) "Mailbox quota option:" field. By default, the number is set to 100 MB of disk space, but you can change it or remove the number altogether if you don't want the account to have a quota and then click (4) CREATE ACCOUNT to create the new account. NOTE: Mail does count towards the storage limits on your web hosting account and if you do not specify any mailbox quota (if you leave the field blank) then the new account won't have any disk space limits to store mail. This means that this account could keep accumulating mail on the server until your web hosting account is completely out of disk space. At that point you wouldn't receive any new e-mail or be able to store any more files in your web hosting account. If you do assign a mailbox quota to an e-mail account, the account won't be able to receive more mail if it hits that quota or if your web hosting account is out of disk space (whichever comes first). If that happens the user will need to delete some mail to make more room for new mail that comes in.
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Configuring E-mail Clients

Learn how to configure your e-mail accounts in the mail client of your choice.
Configuring Your Favourite Email Client
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After you create a new e-mail account, you will be asked if you want to configure an e-mail client to work with the new account. If you click YES or if you select Configure Email Client from the More drop-down menu (see number (5) in the previous step), you will be taken to a screen similar to the one above. This screen will tell you the manual settings you need to know to configure most e-mail clients and also offer you simple one-click access to configure a number of popular e-mail clients.
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Before going any further, let's discuss a few things you need to know about e-mail accounts and protocols. There are two different types of communication protocols (you can think of them as languages if that is easier to understand) that the mail server that handles your e-mail can understand. POP3: This was one of the earliest "languages" for receiving mail that mail servers spoke. This method of communicating assumes that mail will come into the mail server and periodically you will connect with your favourite e-mail program (client) and download that mail to your local computer, where the mail will stay and then the mail on the server will be deleted. This is great if you mostly want to use a computer to check your mail. The mail only takes up space on the mail server until you download it in Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple Mail or some other e-mail program. If for some reason the mail server isn't responding, you will still be able to view any mail you've downloaded locally. However, if you are out of town on business and need to look at an old e-mail you received a long time ago, you won't be able to see that old e-mail via webmail (more on webmail later). IMAP: This is a newer receiving mail "language" that assumes that you will want to manage all of your e-mail on the mail server itself. All mail stays on the server and any e-mail clients you configure to use IMAP will all see exactly the same e-mail. Mail stays on the server until you specifically delete the mail either via your e-mail client or via webmail. This is great if you constantly use different computers to access mail or if you use webmail a lot because you will always see all of your e-mail no matter what program you use. The problem is that the stored mail takes up space in your web hosting account so you may eventually need to remove some older mail permanently to make room for more files or mail. SSL: Both languages can also "speak" in a more secure way that only your e-mail client and the server can understand (sort of like speaking in a secret code). This makes sure that no one other than you will be able to spy on your private e-mail while you are sending or receiving it. SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer and is the same sort of security you use on the web when you access an address using https:// (for example when logging into your bank accounts online). If you decide to use SSL, you may receive a warning the first time you try to access your mail in your e-mail client telling you that the certificate is not recognized. If so, be sure to accept the certificate when prompted by your e-mail program. You should not receive this message again for that account in that e-mail client. SMTP: This stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and it is the language all mail servers speak when you want to send mail through them. SMTP communications can also be unsecured or secured via SSL. It is a good idea to use secure (SSL) SMTP connections. Ports: You can think of ports like different television channels. The mail server uses certain ports to communicate back and forth with your e-mail client. You can only communicate on a port if it is open on both ends (your computer and our server). Your e-mail client already knows the standard ports that the mail server will use to communicate, but in some cases you may want or need to specify a different port.
Webmail: You don't have to use Outlook, Thunderbird or Apple Mail to check your mail if you don't want to. cPanel includes several webmail programs. These allow you to check and respond to your e-mail using any web browser. We'll discuss these more later. Now that we have some of the confusing terminology out of the way, let's go back to discussing how to set up your e-mail client so that it can send and receive mail for your new e-mail account. Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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If you use Outlook, Outlook Express or Windows Live Mail as your e-mail client on a Windows PC or if you use Apple's Mail program on Mac OS X, cPanel can help you set up your e-mail client to check your new e-mail account. Just click on the appropriate (1) link on the screen pictured above. Doing so should launch your e-mail client and set it up to work with your new e-mail address. You will still probably be prompted (at least one time) for the password for this new e-mail account. From then on, if you chose to save the e-mail account password in your client, it should just check mail without prompting you for anything else. NOTE: Normally you should select the secure (SSL) link from the screen above. If you have problems checking your mail using SSL then you can try the regular (unsecured) link. If you use some other program, like Thunderbird, Eudora, Pine, etc., you will need to set up your new e-mail account manually. Exactly how you do this varies from program to program, but all the information you need will be displayed on the screen above (at the bottom of the screen) under (2) "Manual Settings." The only other thing you will need to know that isn't listed there is the e-mail account password. For security, the password is not displayed on the screen above. Your account's manual e-mail account settings: E-mail Account Username: emailusername@yourdomain.com OR emailusername+yourdomain.com (either one will work) replace emailusername with the email account username you created earlier. Incoming Mail Server: mail.yourdomain.com (this is the mail server name used to check for mail in your account - use this for both secure (SSL) and non-secure (non-SSL) connections) Incoming Mail Port: either 110, 143 or 465 (your e-mail client should automatically set this for you and you shouldn't need to change it) Outgoing (SMTP) Mail Server: mail.yourdomain.com (this is the server name you use to send mail from your new e-mail account. - Use this for both secure (SSL) and non-secure (non-SSL) connections.) Outgoing (SMTP) Mail Port: either 25 or 26 (your e-mail client with try to use port 25, but if you have problems sending mail, switch this to port 26)
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Modify Existing E-mail Accounts

Learn how to make changes to e-mail accounts.
Modifying Email Accounts
Once you've added at least one e-mail account, you can manage them in the Email Accounts section below the grey box. In this section you can see some important information about the e-mail accounts you've created and you can manage each account from here. In the Account column, you will see the e-mail addresses of the accounts you've created. The next column provides you a quick link to access webmail for that particular e-mail account. We will discuss webmail more a bit later. The Usage column shows you how much disk space of your hosting account is being used by mail stored in this account. The Quota column shows you the maximum amount of disk space the e-mail account is allowed to use. The final column, called Functions lets you manage that e-mail account. Simply select an item from the drop-down list and click the GO button. Change Password: If for some reason you cannot remember the password you used for a particular e-mail account or if you are afraid someone else might have it, you can change the password using this feature. Change Quota: This allows you to change the maximum amount of disk space in your hosting account that a particular e-mail account can use. You can also remove the quota and thus let the account store as much mail as you have available disk space in your hosting account. Delete will do just that, completely remove this e-mail account and any mail that might be stored in the account. You will be asked to confirm if you want to delete the account. Click the appropriate button to remove the account or cancel this action. NOTE: Once you delete an account the account and all of the mail stored in that account on the server will be deleted. Any mail you may have downloaded into your e-mail client via POP3 will still be there, but any mail stored on the server (new mail or any IMAP mail) will be destroyed. While you can recreate an e-mail account later, the mail in that account will be gone for good. Only a full or home directory backup (discussed later) will be able to restore an e-mail account you've deleted and recover mail (up until the time of the backup itself). Access Webmail: Click this and you will be asked for that e-mail account's mail password and then you will be taken to cPanel webmail interface, just as if you had accessed webmail directly via https://yourdomain.com/webmail, https://yourdomain.com:2096/, https://webhost.dreamtilt.com.au/webmail, etc. You can access all of the available webmail clients from this screen as well as common mail features related to the account you are logged in as (account password, filters, etc.). Configure Mail Client: This feature will display the screen you saw in the previous step. Here you can set up your e-mail client to access this e-mail account. Underneath the list of current e-mail accounts, you will find the Default Email Account. This Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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is a special system e-mail account that you cannot get rid of and that automatically receives unrouted e-mail sent to your domain. Typically this is error messages or other issues from scripts running in your web hosting account. The default account username and password is always the same as your web hosting account. The default account username and password is always the same as your cPanel account login information. Here you can access webmail for this default account and see how much disk space is used by this account. You cannot assign a quota to this special e-mail account. NOTE: Although you could use your default e-mail account as a real e-mail account, we do not recommend you do so. This default e-mail account is actually set up on the system level, meaning that the e-mail address for this account is yourcpanelusername@serverhostname.com" and not "yourcpanelusername@yourdomain.com." If you need to use the system account as a real e-mail account, we suggest setting up an e-mail forwarder pointing "yourcpanelusername@yourdomain.com" to this cPanel system mail account. How to do that will be discussed in the Forwarders section.
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Working with Webmail

Learn how to access your e-mail in any web browser.
Logging on to Webmail Pick your Email Program
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As mentioned earlier, although using an e-mail client like Outlook Express, Thunderbird or Mail is preferable for managing your mail, there are times when another method of checking and responding to mail will come in handy. For those times, cPanel provides a full-featured interface to check your e-mail using just a web browser (webmail). Using webmail has certain advantages and disadvantages: Advantages: * Check and respond to your e-mail from nearly any web browser. * No configuration is needed. Just log in and your mail is there. * Changes you make in your account will also be reflected in any e-mail client set up to check mail via the IMAP protocol. Disadvantages: * You need to have Internet access and a web browser to work with your mail. * All mail (sent and received) is stored on the server, so you may run out of room to store mail eventually. * Webmail programs don't necessarily offer the same robust features for working with e-mail as desktop e-mail clients do. * Some tasks may not be as easy to accomplish in a webmail program as they are in a desktop e-mail client. To access cPanel's webmail features, you need to type one of the following into your web browser: http://webmail.yourdomain.com https://webhost.dreamtilt.com.au/webmail https://yourdomain.com/webmail https://yourdomain.com:2096/ http://yourdomain.com/webmail http://yourdomain.com:2095/ You should use the secure (https://) addresses instead of the insecure ones if possible. This will help stop a malicious person from eavesdropping on your e-mail while your working with it in your web browser. You may get a warning about the SSL certificate used if you connect Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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via SSL using your own domain. This is OK if you are using your own domain and do not have a SSL certificate. You can accept the error in this case - your mail session will still be secure using this method. Regardless of which address you go to, you will then be prompted to enter your webmail username and password. Your webmail username is your full e-mail address (user@yourdomain.com). The password is whatever password you set up for that e-mail account. Once you log in, you will see a screen similar to the one shown above. At the top (1) it will show you what e-mail account you are logged in as right now. Below that are two different webmail programs (2) that you can use to manage your mail. Finally, at the bottom, there are several options and features you can configure for this e-mail account (3). The two different webmail programs Horde and Roundcube all have different strengths and weaknesses. You might want to try them all until you find one you prefer. Horde:
Pros: * This webmail client offers the most functionality of any of the available choices. * The program offers a single place to manage not only e-mail but also tasks and your calendar if you wish. * This client is a full "groupware" solution, which may be ideal for businesses. Cons: * The most complex webmail program. It may take you some time to learn how to use all of its features. * Doesn't always work well in all web browsers (though any modern browser should be OK). * Contact and other groupware data is stored in a MySQL database that you cannot directly back up, though you can export your contacts from within Horde itself and we recommend doing so periodically.
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Pros: * Program acts just like a desktop e-mail client (you can drag and drop messages to move them or delete them, etc.) * Very low learning curve if you are used to a desktop e-mail client. * Clean, modern looking interface. * You don't have to refresh interface to check for new mail. * You can change styles to suit your requirements for Desktop, Tablets, or Smartphones. To change styles click on Settings, then User Interface, then click on the thumbnail image beside the description to change the style theme. Cons: * Other than checking and responding to e-mail, this program doesn't offer many features. * This program won't work in all web browsers (requires javascript). For most people, Roundcube is probably the best overall choice for those with that just want online access to an email account. Horde is a good choice for businesses with multiple email clients that are looking for a suitable equivalent Outlook type email program online. If you find that you use one of the above programs a lot you can choose to have that program start automatically when you enter the cPanel webmail interface. To do so, click "Enable Autoload" under the program you wish to use (not shown in the screenshot above). All of the features listed below the two webmail programs are features that have been or will be discussed in-depth elsewhere in this chapter (they are just links to standard cPanel functionality for that one e-mail account).
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Combatting Spam
Learn how to use SpamAssassin to fight spam.
Combatting Spam using SpamAssassin
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cPanel offers a server-side anti-spam (unsolicited e-mail) tool called SpamAssassin. SpamAssassin is a widely used open source spam rating tool. More information on SpamAssassin can be found here http://spamassassin.apache.org/ When properly configured, SpamAssassin can help remove most of the spam from your account before it reaches your inbox. In order to use SpamAssassin effectively, it is important to understand a bit about how it works. When enabled, SpamAssassin automatically looks at every piece of mail being delivered to your e-mail accounts even before they reach your mailbox. SpamAssassin uses a large number of special rules and its own anti-spam database to try and figure out how likely each piece of mail is to be spam. SpamAssassin then adds special headers to every mail message giving each one a score where lower numbers are less likely to be spam and higher numbers are more likely spam. The SpamAssassin score can be any number (there are no limits) either positive or negative. Various actions can be taken based on the score assigned to the message by SpamAssassin, from changing the subject (denoting the message may be spam) to rerouting the message to another location or deleting it immediately. Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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By default, SpamAssassin will not be enabled, so you should enable it by clicking on the (1) ENABLE SPAMASSASSIN button. Once it is enabled, this button will change to DISABLE SPAMASSASSIN. When SpamAssassin is turned on, it will start scoring every message received and it will automatically delete any mail received that achieves a score of 20 or more, regardless of your other settings (since that is a server-wide setting). By default with SpamAssassin on, any message with a SpamAssassin score over 5 will have the message's subject prefixed with "***SPAM***" because the message will be considered likely spam. However, the message will still be delivered to your mailbox (where the changed subject line should make it easy for you to filter out the message locally). You can choose to have messages deleted automatically if SpamAssassin thinks they are spam. To delete spam automatically as it comes in, select a cutoff score (2) and then click AUTODELETE SPAM. This will create a special mail filter on the server that will delete any messages marked by SpamAssassin with a score at or higher than the number you chose. Messages are deleted as they get processed for delivery, so you will never see them in your inbox. If you decide you don't want to auto delete spam press the (3) DISABLE AUTODELETE SPAM button and the special mail filter will be removed. If you find that SpamAssassin is catching too many good e-mails as spam, then you probably need to increase the SpamAssassin score where messages are considered spam. Alternately, if you find that SpamAssassin is not catching enough spam, then you may want to lower the score at which SpamAssassin considers a message spam. You can make changes to your account's SpamAssassin settings by clicking on the (4) CONFIGURE SPAMASSASSIN button. See the next step for the details available to you on that screen.
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Combatting Spam using SpamAssassin Advanced Configuration
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The SpamAssassin Configuration screen allows you to set advanced SpamAssassin options that can help improve spam recognition. We recommend you only change the settings on this page if you've taken the time to learn more about SpamAssassin and fully understand how these settings will affect SpamAssassin. NOTE: The settings on this screen apply to all domains and e-mail accounts managed by this cPanel account. The most important item on this page is the (1) required_score item. This changes the score that makes SpamAssassin label a message as likely spam. By default, this number is set to 5, which is probably a good number for many people. However, if you find that SpamAssassin is not catching enough spam, you may want to make this a lower number. Be careful not to set this too low or SpamAssassin may start labelling good messages as spam.
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Conversely, if you find that SpamAssassin is labeling too many good messages as spam, you may want to increase this number. Before changing this number, it is best if you watch what SpamAssassin labels as spam and not spam (perhaps using the Spam Box feature mentioned previously). If you find that you are constantly getting spam from certain e-mail accounts or domains, you can blacklist them so that SpamAssassin always marks them as spam, regardless of other settings. To do that, enter up to five different domains or e-mail accounts into the (2) blacklist_from section. To enter just a single e-mail address, enter it on one of these blacklist lines exactly as it appears in the spam you receive. If you want to label all mail from certain domains as spam, use an asterisk. For example, entering *@spammer.com would block any mail with a From line containing any spammer.com domain e-mail account. If you have more than 5 addresses to blacklist, enter the first 5, then click (5) Save and go back into the Configure SpamAssassin screen. You will see the items you've added with extra empty lines so you can add more. Keep adding 5 at a time and saving until you've entered everything you need to. Don't forget to use wild card (* or ?) characters as needed. SpamAssassin uses a large number of special tests to try and determine if a piece of mail is spam or not. SpamAssassin has a default "spam" score for each test. Some tests are assigned negative numbers (meaning that a piece of mail is less like to be spam if it matches the conditions in that test) or positive numbers (meaning that a piece of mail is more likely to be spam if it matches the conditions in that test). You can see a list of the tests that SpamAssassin uses here: http://spamassassin.apache.org/tests_3_3_x.html It is possible to change the default weighting for the tests that SpamAssassin uses if you don't think they are working optimally. Using the test name from the list above, you can reset the score by changing it on the score line like this: score TEST_NAME score1 score2 score3 score4 The TEST_NAME is the SpamAssassin test name from the tests list above, followed by up to 4 different numbers. If you specify only one number, that becomes the new weight for that test in all cases. If you use more than one, then the scores you specify affect the following: First number: This is the weight used when both Bayesian tests and network tests are enabled (which they are on our servers). Second number: This is the weight used when Bayesian tests are disabled but network tests are enabled. Third number: This is the weight used when Bayesian tests are enabled but network tests are disabled. Fourth number: This is the weight used when both Bayesian and network tests are disabled.
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This would change the EMAIL_ROT13 test (which looks for ROT13 encrypted e-mail addresses) from the default weight of 1 to a new weight of 5.1. NOTE Score values can be any positive or negative number. Positive scores make mail matching that test more likely to be spam and negative numbers make the message less likely to be spam. Only enter one test score per line. If you need to change more than 5 test weights, change the first five, save changes (5) and then return to this screen to enter another 5 until you are done. Finally, if you have some e-mail addresses that you want to make sure never get labeled as spam, you can add them to the SpamAssassin whitelist. The whitelist follows the same rules as the blacklist does. You should enter only one e-mail address or domain per whitelist line (4). You can use * and ? as wildcard characters to apply the whitelist settings to multiple addresses. If you have more than 5 address to add, enter the first 5 and then save changes (5) and return to this screen to enter additional whitelisted addresses.
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Mail Forwarders
Learn how to work with e-mail forwarders.
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forward mail to in the Forwarders feature in cPanel. In this case, mail will be received and stored in that e-mail account AND a duplicate copy will be forwarded to the e-mail accounts you specify. To add a forwarding e-mail address, click (1) ADD FORWARDER from the screen above. See the step below to learn how to configure a new forwarder. Note that once you have one set up, you can tell cPanel to run a test trace on the new forwarder (to help you find forwarding problems) or you can delete a forwarder. (These options are in the Functions column of the address list). You cannot actually edit an existing forwarder. If you need to make changes to the forwarding settings for an address then you need to delete the existing forwarder and create a new one with the modified settings you require. If you have a lot of forwarders set up, you can use the Search feature to locate the forwarder or forwarders your are looking for. Simply type in all or part of the forwarder(s) you are looking for and click the (2) GO button. The forwarders that match what you entered will be displayed. If you own more than one domain and the domain is parked or added on to your cPanel account, you can have all mail that is sent to one domain automatically forwarded to another domain. For example, if you have yourdomain2.com forwarding mail to your yourdomain.com domain, then mail to user@yourdomain2.com will be sent to user@yourdomain.com. If user@yourdomain.com isn't set up as a real e-mail address or isn't forwarded elsewhere the e-mail will be handled as your default or catch all address is. To set this up, click (3) ADD DOMAIN FORWARDER. Select the domain you want to forward and the domain you want all mail forwarded to and save changes. From then on all mail for the forwarded domain will be sent to the domain you want mail forwarded to.
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Creating a Mail Forwarder

Now you are ready to create a forwarder, but you have several decisions to make about how you want the mail handled.
Creating Mail Forwarders
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If you have a modern browser and javascript support, cPanel will try to guess the path you are typing in a box that appears just below where you are typing. Select one of those options to have it automatically filled in. If you are sending mail to a script, pay attention to the notes in this section. The script needs to allow other users to execute it (at least), so make sure the permissions on the script you are sending mail to is set to 755. Also, make sure that there is a hashbang at the top of the script. If that is missing, cPanel will try to prompt you and then try to add the hashbang automatically. Finally, you can choose to have mail sent to this address automatically deleted without any warning or notice to anyone (6). (The mail will be quietly accepted and then deleted instead of being forwarded.) This is not recommended because doing this violates RFC guidelines and it also doesn't allow cPanel to attempt to protect you from spammers attempting dictionary attacks (a spammer sends mail to random names at a domain trying to look for valid addresses). ! NOTE: You can only select one of the options listed above, so selecting an option will deselect the others. When you are done setting up your preferred option, click the (7) ADD FORWARDER button. If you want to have the same forwarder send mail to multiple places, just choose to add a new forwarder again and enter the same starting (forwarding) address with a different destination address. Keep doing this until you have all the places you want the one forwarder to forward mail to set up. You can create a quick and dirty mailing list this way. Just keep in mind that if someone sends spam to that address all of the recipients will receive that same piece of spam. So if you really want to have an interactive mailing list, see the details about Mailman later in this guide.
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E-mail Autoresponders
Learn how Autoresponders work and how to create and manage them responsibly.
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mails that were sent to that address. If you have more than one domain parked or added on to your cPanel account, you can select it from the drop down list next to where you typed the e-mail username. The (4) From: text field is what people receiving the auto response will see in the From line of their e-mail. This can be anything you like. As an example, you could enter "The YOURDOMAIN.COM Team" or type your own name there. Anything typed into the (5) Subject: field will be displayed as the subject of the auto response e-mail message. This could be anything you like. For example: "Thanks for your inquiry" or "I'm on vacation." A subject is required for all auto response messages. If you plan to paste HTML code into your message body, check the (6) HTML Message: check box. If you want to send just a plain text auto response, leave this unchecked. NOTE: The auto responder screen does not have a WYSIWYG HTML editor built-in, so it will be up to you to create valid HTML code in some other program first and then paste the results in the Body: field. The (7) Body: field is where you type the response message you want to send. You can use some variables in the subject line or body of your message. These variables will be automatically be replace with information from the incoming message that triggered the auto response. You can use: %subject% This will be replaced with the subject line of the incoming e-mail that triggered the auto response. %from% This will be replaced by the name of the person who sent you an e-mail. This name will be pulled from the From: line of the incoming message. %email% This will list the e-mail address of the person who sent you an e-mail. This e-mail %email% This will list the e-mail address of the person who sent you an e-mail. This e-mail address will be pulled from the From: line in the incoming message. Once you are sure you have everything the way you want it, click the (8) CREATE/MODIFY button to enable this auto responder. NOTE: The auto responder will automatically send your response to any e-mail that comes in to the auto responder's e-mail address that you specified. The auto responder cannot differentiate between types of incoming mail, so it will respond to spam just as readily as it will to a legitimate message. For this reason, be careful when you set up an auto responder because you may find that you get reported as a spammer when your auto responder sends e-mail to a spoofed address in a spam message.
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Handling Unrouted E-mail Learn to control how unrouted mail gets handled.
Unrouted Email Catch All E-Mail Address
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You should rarely, if ever, need to use the advanced options, but should you need to forward mail to a script or delete mail sent to non-existent e-mail addresses in your domain, you can click on "Advanced Options >" and set up the appropriate item as you wish and then click the (7) CHANGE button. The advanced options are: (4) Forward to your system account. You can send your mail to the main e-mail account (this is the system level account we discussed earlier that is actually CPANELUSERNAME@SERVERHOSTNAME.COM). (5) Pipe to a program: This allows you to send all unrouted e-mail to a script for processing. The script has to be able to parse incoming mail and be executable or you will receive errors every time this pipe is triggered. (6) Discard: This will just delete unrouted mail without responding back to the sender. This is not recommended as our servers are configured to notice the typical bounce messages and to help you avoid spammer abuse. If you discard the mail without responding then it may encourage spammers to send you even more spam (as they continue to look for valid addresses). Don't forget to click the (7) CHANGE button once you set your preferred routing method. cPanel shows your (10) current setting near the top of this screen.
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Setting up Mailing Lists Learn how to set up and manage Mailman mailing lists.
Setting Up a Mail List
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You may occasionally need to facilitate discussions between groups of people on a particular topic. If so, you can use cPanel's Mailing Lists feature to create and manage such discussions. cPanel uses a specially modified version of a program called Mailman http://list.org/ Mailman makes it easier to manage e-mail discussion lists, either moderated or unmoderated. NOTE: Mailman is not designed for use for newsletters or other one-to-many items where you want to send something to many people but not permit them to "talk back" to you and everyone else on the list. If you want a program that can handle email newsletters where you can track people reading emails and avoid spamming issues to clients, please check out Dreamtilt Email Newsletter service for business. To create a new list, type the public name of the list into the (1) text field next to the words "List Name" then type in the administrator's password into the (2) Password field or use the GENERATE PASSWORD button to create a secure password
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automatically. Retype that same password into the (2) Password (Again) field, or you can use the (3) PASSWORD GENERATOR to create a random, secure password instead, and then click the (4) ADD MAILING LIST button to complete the process. NOTE: If you have more than one domain added to your cPanel account, there will be a drop-down list under the (1) List Name field that will allow you to select the domain on which to set the mailing list up. Any active mailing lists will appear in the Current Lists section. There you can see the list name as well as links to (5) delete the list, change the main administrator mailing list password, or modify the mailing list settings (which opens a new window and takes you to the Mailman management interface. NOTE: Mailman is too complex a program to discuss the administration of mailing lists in this document. If you need help, you can visit Mailman's website for assistance. Also, Mailman mailing lists do count against your disk space use limits, but the mailing list data is stored outside of your home directory, so the only way to back that data up is to use a full backup.
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Server-side E-mail Filtering Learn how to add/edit server-side e-mail filters to have e-mail sorted or deleted according to your wishes.
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the text box next to (1) "Filter Name:" The name will allow you to quickly pick out the filter you want to work with if you need to edit it later. Note that the name must be unique for every filter you create. If you try to enter an invalid filter name, cPanel will warn you and make you choose a new one. Next, you set up the various conditions you want the server to look for before it applies certain actions to incoming mail. You set up these conditions, called rules, one at a time until you are certain that this filter will only get applied to the messages you want it to apply to. Rules can look at nearly all key areas of an incoming message including the From:, To:, and Subject: lines. You then specify what you want done with any message that matches the Rules. Select the appropriate action (like deleting (discarding) a message or moving it to another mail folder on the server. You can have multiple actions applied to any message by clicking the + next to the shaded Actions box. You start by selecting the field that want to have the rule look at and select it from the (2) drop-down box. If you have SpamAssassin enabled, you can even select the SpamAssassin spam headers to act on (in fact, this is how the SpamAssassin auto delete spam feature works). Once you've picked a field to act on, you may be able to select a (3) boolean operator (equals, does not equal, begins/ends with, etc.) and then enter the (4) value to look for or act on. The exact options you will have depend on the field you chose to act on in the appropriate (2) drop-down box. You can then add more rules by clicking the (5) + button or remove this rule by clicking on the - button. You can change the order that rules get parsed by using the up or down arrow next to the rule to move. Multiple rules are parsed in the order listed on this screen. Also, if you have multiple rules you will be able to specify AND or OR. If you select AND, in order to trigger this filter the message being evaluated has to match this rule AND any others you specify. If you choose OR then the filter will be triggered if this rule OR any others you have set up have been matched. Once you have the rules set up in the order you want them, you then can specify one or more actions to take if the conditions specified in the rule(s) are met. You can (6) delete the message that matches this rule, stop processing any other filters on this message, send the message to another account, fail (bounce) the message or send the message to a new mail folder. You can add or remove additional actions by using the (7) + or - buttons next to the action. When you are happy, click the (8) CREATE button to create the filter. Filters will apply almost immediately. Once back on the main filters screen, you can test your new filter by setting up a test message in the filter test box displayed and then click Test Filter. Note that this will not actually send a message, it just runs a test on your filters and shows you the result so you can see if the filter(s) you've set up work as you desire.
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Whole Account Server-Side Filters

You can also apply a set of filters to all mail coming into your cPanel account (including all addon domains) by clicking Account Level Filtering on the cPanel home screen. Adding or removing account level filters works very similarly to the e-mail account level filters mentioned in the previous step. If you want to learn more about setting up rules and actions, please read Working with Mail: Individual E-mail Account Server-Side Filters. To create a filter that will be applied to any e-mail coming into your account, regardless of which specific e-mail account it is going to, click on the CREATE A NEW FILTER button. This will take you to a screen that looks like the screenshot in the previous step. Follow the same steps to set up a filter as discussed earlier. Follow the rule/action creation steps and you will be brought back to the main screen, shown above. You can Edit or Delete an existing rule (if there are any) and test your existing filters by entering a test message in the Filter Test box and then clicking Test Filter. These options will not appear unless you've set up at least one filter already. NOTE: The Test Filter feature will not actually send a message, it just runs a test on your filters and shows you the result so you can see if the filter(s) you've set up work as you desire.
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Testing E-mail Routing Email Reports

Learn how to view a report to see if e-mail is getting routed properly.
Working with E-mail Check Email Reports
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Importing E-mail Accounts and Settings

Learn how to prepare and import e-mail accounts, forwarders and settings from other e-mail providers.
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If you want to import e-mail accounts or forwarders from a cPanel account, then cPanel has its own Backup and restore features, which will be discussed later. However, if you need to import e-mail accounts or forwarders from non-cPanel hosting accounts and cPanel offers a way to do this. To get started, click on Import Addresses/Forwarders on the cPanel home screen. It uses spreadsheet files (either a standard Excel spreadsheet file (.xls) or a comma separated values file (.csv)). Even if you don't own Microsoft Office, many programs can save data in .xls or .csv format, including the free Open Office or its offshoot, Libre Office, or even Google Docs.! If you've never used this feature before, you absolutely should click on the large link asking you if you (1) Need help setting up a CSV or Excel file for importing.
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Clicking on it will bring up a new on-page window (2) Setup CSV/XLS for Importing. This will explain how to save the e-mail or forwarder information in a file that cPanel will be able to read and import. The top of the window shows you how to save a spreadsheet containing the data needed to import e-mail accounts. The only data you really must have is a list of email addresses, but you can also list the domain name, password and disk quota size (in MB).
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You can even download (3) sample .xls or .csv files to see how they need to be set up. Below that, is an example of how you set up your spreadsheet to set up forwarders. The only data you must have is one column with the source e-mail address and then another column with the destination address. You can download (4) an example .xls or .csv files showing you how to set up the forwarders file. Do not mix e-mail and forwarders in the same file, though. Keep them in separate files. Click the (5) CLOSE button at the bottom or top of this popup window to close it.
Once you have the files you need to import, select either (6) E-mail Accounts or Forwarders from Step 1 depending on what you want to import first. Then in Step 2, click the (7) Browse... button to select the file you want to import. Finally click the Next button to start the import process. On the next screen, cPanel will show you the top of your file. If your file contains a header row (i.e., a row that contains the titles for each column), select that header row and then click Next to continue. cPanel will then parse the data in the file and then show you what it is going to try to import. If everything looks OK, then click the FINISH button to complete the import process. If the data doesn't look right, check the format of your .xls or .csv file.
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Combat E-mail Spoofing

Learn how to fight e-mail spoofing (and some spammers) by using SPF or DKIM records.
SPF and DKIM Fighting Email Spoofing
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As you may be aware, due to the way e-mail service works on the Internet right now, it is very easy for spammers or scammers to spoof the sender of an e-mail message. Various methods of reducing this issue without completely changing the way e-mail service works have been discussed. cPanel supports two different anti-spoofing technologies. They are disabled by default, however, so if you want to enable them then you should select Email Authentication from the cPanel home screen. The two supported anti-spoofing technologies are DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) and Sender Policy Framework (SPF). Both techniques use slightly different methods to accomplish basically the same thing: Assure that the mail really did come from the listed user's domain. For either technology to work, it has to be supported both by the sending domain and by the receiving mail server. DKIM is the easiest for you, the end user, to enable in cPanel, but is more complex for mail service managers to implement. Right now, DKIM isn't used as often as SPF. However, it is still a good idea to enable since it will make it easier for your mail to get through to recipients. DKIM works by creating a public and private key that is used to digitally sign parts of your outgoing message. The recipient can retrieve the public key from your domain's DNS records and use it to help ensure the message they are looking at really came from your domain. NOTE: You cannot enable DKIM unless our server is the primary mail server for your domain(s). If you try to enable this and your domain doesn't resolve to our server or if your MX (mail) record(s) don't point to our server, then you will not be able to use cPanel to
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enable DKIM support. Contact the company that manages your mail service or domain to learn how to enable DKIM. All Dreamtilt Webhosting clients that use our server as the primary mail server has DKIM and SPF enabled by default. We recommend not disabling DKIM or SPF so as to minimise SPAM issues. To enable or disable DKIM support in cPanel, just click the (1) ENABLE/DISABLE button. So long as cPanel detects that it manages your domains and acts as the primary mail server, then it will be enabled/disabled. If cPanel notices an issue, it will let you know. There are no additional settings to worry about with DKIM. It is either on or off. SPF is somewhat more commonly implemented, probably because it is somewhat easier for mail server administrators to set up. SPF works by adding a special TXT record to the DNS zone for your domain(s). That record tells others what mail servers are permitted to send mail from your domains. Receiving mail servers can check your SPF record and make sure that the mail they are receiving are from a permitted sender. To enable or disable SPF, just click the (2) ENABLE/DISABLE button. This will set up/remove a basic SPF record that should work for most people. If you have more complex needs or if you want to make the SPF record stronger, you can edit it by using the Advanced Settings. If you have an active SPF record, it will be displayed here as well.
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The advanced SPF settings let you modify your default record so that you can fine tune it and provide a more definitive record that others can safely rely on. The (3) "Additional Hosts that send mail for your domains (A):" section allows you to add the IP addresses of other mail servers that you want to allow to send mail from your domain. Typically, this field will remain empty (our mail server is automatically allowed without your having to specify it here). If you have other mail senders (perhaps a third-party mailing service) that regularly send mail that comes from your domain, but not through our server, enter those hosts here. Enter each one separately by clicking the ADD button or select one from the list and click the DELETE button. The (4) "Additional MX servers for your domains (MX):" section allows you to specify other mail servers (machines) that are permitted to send mail for your domain. You don't need to
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enter our server, as this is automatically allowed. Enter each one separately by clicking the ADD button or select one from the list and click the DELETE button. The (5) "Additional Ip blocks for your domains (IP4):" section allows you to enter IP addresses of other IP addresses that you want to allow to be able to directly send mail for your domain. Our server will automatically be allowed. Enter each IP address separately by clicking the ADD button or select one from the list and click the DELETE button. The (6) "Include List (INCLUDE):" section allows you add other domains that also send mail for this domain. If those domains have their own MX records, those records will also be included with this record automatically. If you just want to test your SPF record or you are not certain you've entered everything correctly, be sure to leave the (7) "All Entry (ALL):" item unchecked. However, when you are done testing and sure you have the SPF record the way you want it, you should check this box. With this box checked, if other mail servers that check SPF records detect mail coming from another host or IP address not in your SPF record, the receiving mail server should reject the message. If this item is unchecked then the receiving mail server may choose to accept the message even though the SPF record does not match. Finally, check (8) "Overwrite Existing Entries:" if you want to replace all existing SPF records with the sections you've just made, otherwise the existing entries won't be replaced.
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Changing MX Records
Learn how to redirect where your mail is managed.
Managing MX (Mail) Records
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eXchanger) records for the domain. The sending mail server then tries to connect to the mail server with the lowest MX record number and will deliver the mail there. If that mail server doesn't respond or denies the mail then the sending mail server will try to connect to the mail server with the next lowest MX record (if there is one) and will deliver the mail there. This continues until the sending mail server cannot find any more mail servers or it manages to deliver the mail. In the Email Routing section, you can set the following actions for cPanel: (1) Automatically detect configuration: This is the default setting and the one you typically should keep. cPanel will try to automatically figure out if the primary mail server for your account should be our server or a remote server. This option also displays what cPanel currently thinks it should do with mail for your domain. If it says "local" then cPanel is managing your mail itself. If it says "remote" then that means that cPanel thinks your main mail servers are hosted somewhere else and cPanel will pass all mail off to the remote mail server. You can also explicitly set the behavior if you think cPanel's automatic detection isn't working (or if you want to make a temporary change in how mail is handled): (2) Local Mail Exchanger: This forces cPanel to try to manage your mail locally (on your server). You should use cPanel to create/edit email accounts and forwarders if mail is being handled locally. (3) Remote Mail Exchanger: This forces cPanel to try to pass off mail to a remote mail server. Make sure you have an MX record set up for the remote mail server or no mail will get delivered. If you have a remote server as your primary mail server, do not try to use cPanel to manage your mail accounts or use cPanel's webmail service. You will need to manage your mail on the remote mail server. (4) Backup Mail Exchanger: cPanel now supports having our server act as a backup (secondary) mail server. There is a primary mail server that is where mail will normally go to and then there are secondary servers that will accept mail for your domain if the primary server is down. The way this works is mail gets handled by the remote primary mail server, just as it would if you chose Remote Mail Exchanger, however, if the main mail server fails for some reason and is not accepting mail, then the mail will be delivered to our server. Our server will periodically check to see if the primary mail server is back online and responding. If it is working, then our server will send the stored mail for your domain back to the primary mail server. This provides redundancy in case there are problems with your main mail server. If you choose this option, then you need to set up your mail accounts and forwarders the same as you have them set up on your primary mail server so our server knows how to handle the mail. Select this option only if you are going to use our server as the backup mail server. If you are using a third party (remote) mail server as your backup mail server for your cPanel account, then you should selected Automatically Detect Configuration or Local Mail Exchanger and then set up another MX record for the backup mail server(s) with higher MX numbers than your primary mail server. If you change the default Email Routing selection, don't forget to click the CHANGE button to apply the new setting. Below that is the Add New Record section. This allows you to add additional MX records to your domain's DNS zone(s). The (5) Priority number sets the order in which other mail servers will use the mail server specified in this record. Lower numbered MX records are used first, followed by records with higher numbers. You can specify any non-negative number you like, so long as you make Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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sure the lowest numbered record is the mail server you want to primarily handle mail for your domains. By default, cPanel sets a MX record with a value of zero pointing to the local mail server (so cPanel will manage your mail). The (5) Destination is the mail server host name that you want to deliver mail to. You cannot use an IP address in this box, the mail server must have a fully qualified domain name associated with it (per RFC guidelines). Click ADD NEW RECORD to add a new MX record with the details you specified. If you make a mistake, cPanel will notify you of the problem so you can fix it. At the bottom of this screen, all of the (9) MX records that are currently set up will be listed. You can click the appropriate link to delete or edit the existing record if you wish. NOTE: If anything described here confuses you, or if you are in any way uncertain how to proceed, please contact support and do not change anything on this screen.
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Working with Files

Backing up and Restoring Data
Learn how to use cPanel to backup and restore your important data.
Backing Up and Restoring Data
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It is important that you always keep your important data backed up. This is especially true of the content of your web hosting account. We cannot stress this enough, please keep your important data backed up at all times. Thankfully cPanel makes it much easier to back up your data and restore it should something go wrong. Note: Dreamtilt Webhosting makes regular backups of your files and stores them both locally on the webhosting server and a remote copy, always ensuring your data is backed up. As these are set backup frequencies, it is important you check and generate a backup should you make significant changes at any time. When you are ready to backup your files or if you need to restore data from a backup, you have a few options options (1) Restore Manager or select (2) Backups and (3) Backup Wizard under Files cPanel home screen. Restore Manager is best used when restoring your backup files. Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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In Backups, you can choose from making or downloading full backups of all of your data or downloading or restoring key parts of your data. Full backups are just what they sound like, all of your data stored on our server compressed and provided to you as a single file you can download locally or transfer. Although full backups are the most complete record of your data, they do have two drawbacks: * You cannot use cPanel to restore a full backup: Because the full backup contains data from more locations than what is stored in your home directory, cPanel cannot automatically
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restore a full backup. However, if it is critical, our support personnel have the ability to restore full backups that are provided to us. Also, you can manually decompress a full backup file and manually reload most of your data. * They take a long time to generate and place high load on the server while they are being generated: Full backups can contain a lot of data and creating the compressed backup can put stress on even the most powerful servers. For this reason we strongly recommend that you take backups during off-peak hours when load is low on the server so you don't inconvenience other users on your server. To generate or download a manual full backup, click the (1) DOWNLOAD OR GENERATE A FULL WEBSITE BACKUP button. This will take you to a new screen.
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If you plan to send the backup to a remote server via FTP or SCP, then you will be prompted to enter the data needed so that cPanel can log into your remote server to save the file. Don't forget to choose whether you want to receive an e-mail when the backup is complete or not and then click GENERATE BACKUP to start the process. The backup will be made in the background without further interaction needed from you. If you choose to get an e-mail when the backup is complete then cPanel will send you an email with the results of the backup so you know if it worked or not. Back on the main Backup screen, you can also choose to save some time by downloading a copy of the backups that we make every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday night. Click the appropriate (2) button to start downloading the most recent daily or weekly backup we have made. Note that not all cPanel accounts will see the System Backups section. This is normal. The Partial Backups section of this screen offers you the ability to backup and also restore compressed backups of your critical data. The Home Directory backup allows you to backup all of the files located in your account's home directory (that is, the location you access with your main FTP account, usually /home/YOURCPANELUSERNAME). This will backup most of your data, except for MySQL databases, Email aliases and filters and Mailman mailing lists. With the exception of Mailman mailing lists, you can download all of that other data in separate compressed backup files. To start the backup process, click the (3) HOME DIRECTORY backup button. If there is a lot of data in your home directory, the backup will take a long time and eventually you will be prompted to save the compressed backup to your local machine. If you ever want to restore the contents of your home directory from a home directory backup you've made in cPanel, click the BROWSE button under the Restore a Home Directory Backup heading. Select the compressed home backup you want to restore, then click the (4) UPLOAD button to start uploading the file from your computer to your web hosting account. When done, the server will decompress the backup and restore the files. Do not navigate away from this screen until the restore is complete. If you are restoring a lot of data, this can take a while. Your web hosting account needs 50 - 75% more space available than your account is currently using if you want to restore the backup. If your account hits your disk quota limit, the backup restoration will fail. To back up the databases your account is using, click on the (5) database name listed in the Download a MySQL Database Backup section. Each of your databases is a separate download. There may also be a database listed that is just your cPanel username. This is normal. That database is used by cPanel/MySQL and will likely not contain much data (if anything). If you would like to restore one of the databases you've backed up, click the BROWSE button under the Restore a MySQL Database Backup section. Choose the database you want to restore from your computer and then click the (5) UPLOAD button to restore the database. Do not navigate away from the page until the upload and restore is complete, or you may damage your database. If your database is very large, cPanel may have problems restoring Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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the database. If this happens, upload your uncompressed database to your cPanel account and then use a script like Big Dump to restore the uncompressed .sql file. If you still have problems, please contact support for assistance with restoring your database. As with all restores, please make sure you have enough available disk space to handle both the compressed backup file and the uncompressed file (typically 50-90% larger than the compressed backup). If you use the E-mail Forwarders feature in cPanel (see previously), you can backup all of the forwarders settings for each domain in your cPanel account by clicking on the (sub)domain name. The file will be small and will download to your local computer. When you need to restore the settings you've backed up, just upload the file in the (6) Restore Email Forwarders section. Click the BROWSE... button and select the backed up e-mail forwarders file then click on the UPLOAD button to restore your settings. The file will be uploaded, decompressed and the settings in the file applied, restoring the forwarder settings to the state they were in when the settings were backed up. This process should not take very long, but do not navigate away from this page until the restore is complete. Finally, you can backup any e-mail filters you may have created by clicking on the (7) (sub)domain name in the Download Email Filters section. That will save a small file to your local machine that contains any mail filters you've set up. To restore the mail filters from your backup, upload the file in the Restore Email Filters section. Click the BROWSE... button and select the backed up e-mail forwarders file then click on the UPLOAD button to restore your settings. The file will be uploaded, decompressed and the settings in the file applied, restoring the mail filters settings to the state they were in when the filters were backed up. This process should not take very long, but do not navigate away from this page until the restore is complete.
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The Backup and Restoration Wizard

If all the steps in the previous discussion about backing up and restoring files have frustrated or confused you, don't worry, cPanel has your back(up). :)
Backup Wizard Its Got Your Back (Up)
Click on the Backup Wizard icon on the cPanel home screen. This wizard will simplify the steps it takes to backup or restore your website. On the first screen of the wizard, you select whether you want to backup or restore files. Click on either the BACKUP or RESTORE buttons to continue to the next screen. If you choose to backup your files, you will then be taken to a screen where you will choose either a full backup or partial backups. As discussed earlier, full backups include 100% of your data, but you cannot use cPanel to restore the backup (someone from support would need to do that). Partial backups contain most of your data, but not all of it (for example, partial backups do not get any mailman mailing list data you may be using). The benefit, however, to a partial backup is that you can use cPanel to restore the backed up files including MySQL databases, email and web site files. If you select full backup, you will be taken to a screen where you can select where the compressed backup gets sent when ready, either into the account's home directory or sent via (S)FTP or SCP to another server. You will also be able to set an e-mail address to get notified when the full backup is complete. Full backups, especially when transferring them to a remote location can take time, so be patient. If you choose partial backups, you will then be asked to select what part you want to backup and download. You can choose your entire home directory (this includes all of your mail and web files), the MySQL databases (each gets backed up and downloaded separately) or email forwarders and filters (backed up and downloaded separately for each domain/subdomain). You can only restore partial backups, so when you choose to restore a backup, you will be asked what sort of backup you want to restore, home, mysql or e-mail filters and aliases. Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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You will be prompted to locate the compressed backup and then cPanel will get to work decompressing and then restoring your data. Note that this process may take quite a while and you should not navigate away from the restore page until the restore is complete.
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The cPanel File Manager

Learn how to use cPanel to upload, download and edit files in your account. Using an FTP client isn't the only way to add, delete or modify files in your web hosting account. One of the alternate ways you have to work with files in cPanel is to use the file management tools built into cPanel itself. This is very handy if you need to make a few quick changes and are in cPanel already. Currently, there are two different versions of the same file manager tool available in cPanel. The first, just called File Manager on the cPanel home screen is the newer version of the tool that works best with modern browsers. It uses more javascript to make working with the file manager more intuitive. The other version, called Legacy File Manager on the cPanel home screen is an older version of the tool, written using less javascript. It may work better for older or mobile web browsers. Feel free to use which ever version you prefer, they are basically the same. The screenshots and descriptions in this guide illustrate the standard File Manager, but the Legacy File Manager works nearly the same way for most functions. When you click on File Manager, you will be prompted for the location you want to open initially.
File Manager Part 1
Your choices are: 1) Your home directory (/home/CPANELUSERNAME/) 2) The web root (the main location for web-accessible files /home/CPANELUSERNAME/public_html/ - This is the default) 3) The main publicly accessible FTP directory if anonymous FTP access is enabled (/home/CPANELUSERNAME/public_ftp/) 4) The main web document root for a particular domain or subdomain). You select the available choices from a drop-down list. If you want to have cPanel show you hidden files (on Linux servers, any files starting with a period (.) get hidden from display by default), then make sure the checkbox next to Show Hidden Files (dotfiles) is checked. Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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If you would like cPanel to remember your choice the next time you open the file manager (making the current selection the default from now on) click on the checkbox next to "Skip this question...". Finally, click Go to access the File Manager itself.
File Manager Part 2
The File Manager opens into a new window and as you can see from the screenshot above looks and works similarly to many other file management tools you may already be familiar with. At the top of the screen, is a bar containing a link to the general File Manager Settings, you click that to change general settings related to file management. Right now, there is only a single option, to disable the file character encoding warning dialog boxes that appear when you try to edit a file. On the left side of the screen is a search box that allows you to look for file names containing the string you type. The search is limited to 250 results, maximum, be as specific as you can when searching. Just below that section are the file manipulation options. Click on any of these icons to perform the action (on the selected files/folders). On the right-side of the screen, you will see a tree showing all of the directories on your site. Click on the name of a directory to go there (the contents will be displayed on the left side of the screen). Click on the small + or - symbol next to a folder icon to show or hide the contents of that directory. Click the Collapse All item at the top of the list to "roll up" all of the folders so that only your home directory itself is shown in the list. To the left is the current directory content display. This shows all files and directories (except for hidden ones, if you didn't choose to have the File Manager display them). Click on the file(s) or folder(s) you want to act on, then click the appropriate action icon from the bar near the top of the screen. You can create a brand new file or folder in the current directory by clicking on those icons. You will be prompted for the name of the file or directory. In the case of files, be sure to add Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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the extension (i.e., .html, .php) if needed. In either case, make sure you're creating the file or directory in the location you really want it. If not, feel free to edit the path to the file or directory and it will be created in the new location. The Copy and Move icons will attempt to make a copy of the selected items (and anything inside any directories you have selected), leaving the original in place, essentially duplicating the content in another location). The move icon will attempt to change the location where the file or directory is located. Then you need to specify the new location. You do this by filling in the full path to the new location and you can even specify a new name for a file or directory if you are only moving/copying one. The upload and download icons allow you to upload or download files to or from your account. The delete icon will prompt you to delete the selected file(s) or folder(s). In the standard File Manager, the file will be deleted after you approve the deletion. On the Legacy File Manager, the file or directories will be moved to a special hidden Trash directory in your account. You can then choose to restore the file from the trash in the sidebar on the right side or click the trashcan icon to permanently delete the file(s) or folder(s). Don't forget to empty the trash if you are using the Legacy File Manager and you need to clear up disk space. The rename icon will allow you to change the name(s) of the selected item(s). Then there are three different edit icons. All three are used to edit files from within your web browser, but each is tailored to a specific type of file. The Edit icon simply brings up a text box with the content of the file you've selected. You can edit the content in plain text and save changes as needed. Use this icon if you aren't sure what sort of file you are dealing with (this won't work for binary or encoded files, of course). If you need to edit a text file, then this is probably your best choice. You can also switch back and forth between the code editor and the plain text editor without having to reload or save the file. When you are done, click SAVE CHANGES. If you want to close the window without saving your changes, click the CLOSE button. If you want to edit raw HTML or PHP code, then it is usually best to select the Code Editor icon on a selected file. You will first be asked to confirm the encoding of the file. Select the appropriate a selected file. You will first be asked to confirm the encoding of the file. Select the appropriate encoding if the listed default is not correct. This will bring up the code in the file you select for editing and that code will be syntax coloured based on what language the code editor believes you are working with. You can select a different code language for the syntax colouring feature from the bar at the top of the window. You can also switch back and forth between the code editor and the plain text editor without having to reload or save the file. When you are done, click SAVE CHANGES. If you want to close the window without saving your changes, click the CLOSE button. If you would like to edit your HTML pages in a WYSIWYG environment (the page looks similar to how you will see it in your web browser, including formatting and graphics) then select the HTML file and click on the HTML Editor icon. If your web browser is supported by the HTML Editor, then you will be presented with the contents of your page open in design edit mode. You can make changes to your page using controls that are similar to older versions of Microsoft Word (tm). This includes formatting, fonts, images and other media. If you decide you'd like to edit the HTML code directly, click on the SOURCE button at the bottom of this window. That will show you the syntax coloured code similar to the Code Editor. If you'd like to see the page, as it will appear in your web browser, then click on the PREVIEW button at the bottom of the screen. To Save your changes to the file, click on the Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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small Save icon that looks like an old, blue floppy disk. If you don't want to save your changes, just close this window. NOTE: The HTML Editor supports most recent versions of the major web browsers (IE 8 and above, Firefox 4+, Safari 5+, etc.) but if you get a warning when you open the HTML Editor that your browser is unsupported or if it opens a window with nothing but a plain text field and no icons, then you will need to use a different web browser in order to edit your content. Alternately, try the Code Editor instead. The Change Permissions icon will allow you to change the permissions of the selected file(s) or folder(s). You can select the permissions by clicking on check boxes for the appropriate settings you want or by manually typing in the 3 number code corresponding to the permissions you want to set. Let's take a moment to discuss Linux file permissions in case you aren't familiar with them. Linux was designed from the start with multiple users in mind. It primarily uses two things to keep track of who can access what files: Ownership: Every file and directory on a Linux server is "owned" by some user and assigned to some group. Your cPanel username is your "system user" on our Linux server. In addition to ownership by individual accounts, every directory or file can also be assigned to a group. A group is a collection of one or more system user accounts that are to be allowed special access to the file or directory. Linux also keeps track of those things that people who aren't the owner and who aren't in a group assigned to the file or directory should be allowed to do with it. Permissions: Linux keeps track of what everyone should be allowed to do with a file or directory. Permissions are broken down into 3 categories: * Read: Anyone with read permission can look at the contents of a file or directory. * Write: Anyone with write permission can add or change content inside a file or directory. * Execute: Anyone with execute permission is allowed to "run" the content inside the file or directory. The combination of ownership and permissions allowed for a file are displayed in a table like this in the File Manager (and in most other programs that let you edit Linux permissions): Read Write Execute Owner [] [] [] Group [] [] [] World [] [] []
Down the first column are the permission settings for the file and across the first row are ownership settings (World = everyone else who isn't the owner of the file or directory or in the assigned group). In each row and column there are check boxes that allow you to set the permissions for each class of system account. As you check off permissions for each item, you will notice that there are numbers in the bottom row that change automatically. These numbers are a "shorthand" way of expressing Linux permissions. Each of the three different permission types (Read, Write, Execute) are assigned a different "point" value. Read is 4, Write is 2 and Execute is 1. The numbers get added together down the column for Owner, Group and World. This returns a 3 digit number from 000 to 777 that completely Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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expresses who can do what to that file or directory. For example, if the Owner of a file is allowed to Read, Write and Execute it and the Group can only read and execute the file and everyone else (World) isn't allowed to do anything with the file, then the numeric expression of the permissions on this file would be 750 (Owner = 4+2+1=7. Group = 4+1=5, World = 0+0+0=0). The most common permissions are: 644 = The Owner can read, and write but not execute the file and everyone else can only read the file but not write or execute it. This is the standard permission for new files and is fine in most cases. 755 = The owner can read, write and execute the file or directory and everyone else can read or execute the content, but not write to it. This is the standard permission setting for new directories. 777 = Everyone can read, write and execute the file or directory. This is insecure. Some web scripts may tell you they need certain files or directories set to 777 permissions, and in some hosting environments they do. Since our servers use suPHP, you should never set a file or directory to 777 permission. If a web script needs to be able to read write and execute a file or directory, set the permissions to 755 instead. Why does this work? With suPHP, PHP scripts run as your cPanel user, so 755 grants them read, write and execute permission. suPHP will not allow any files or directories to be set to 777. If you do set them that way, the PHP script will generate a 500 or 403 error when trying to access that file or directory. Without suPHP, PHP scripts run as the user "nobody" and that is why they need 777 permissions. In the File Manager, you can either set permissions by checking the check boxes in the displayed grid OR you can type the numeric permission into the three boxes at the bottom of the grid. Save changes to set the new permissions. Back to the main File Manager icons... The View icon allows you to view the contents of a file. It does not include editing of any kind. This is handy if you just want to read a file and want to make sure you don't accidentally make changes. The final two icons, Extract and Compress work on archives of files. The File Manager typically supports .zip, .gzip (or .tar.gz or .tgz) and .bz2 files. If you upload a compressed archive and select it in the File Manager and select Extract, cPanel will attempt to decompress the file and place the contents into the current directory (or where ever you specify). Compress will take the selected files and directories and try to create a single archive out of all of them. You must specify the final archive name and location as well as the type of compression you want to use. .zip is the most common compression type and PCs and Macs can both deal with those files natively. Gzipped (or tar.gz) files are most common on Linux and that compression type is best if you are moving the files to another Linux server. Bzip2 files usually take the longest to create, but generate the smallest final archive. Most computers require additional software to be able to decompress this sort of file. If you are uncertain what sort of compression to choose, select .zip as it is the most common. As you can see, the File Manager is fairly full-featured. However, if you plan to upload or work with lots of files, then using FTP or WebDAV may be faster.
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Using WebDAV (Web Disk)

Learn how to use WebDAV (Web Disk) to work with files in your account.
Using Web Disk (WebDAV)
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In addition to providing FTP access to your account and a browser-based file manager, cPanel also supports WebDAV (also known as Web Disk). WebDAV is a newer protocol that allows you to mount your remote web hosting account as if it were a local hard drive (on OS systems that support it). From there, you can work with files in your web hosting account as if they were all hosted locally, using whatever tools you like.
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NOTE: Most operating systems support native mounting of WebDAV directories, though some may require additional software To start working with WebDAV, click on Web Disk on the cPanel home screen. On this screen (shown above), you can create WebDAV accounts or manage existing ones. By default, every cPanel account comes with one WebDAV account set up. This account uses the same login information as your main cPanel account (the cPanel username and password) and it gives you full access via WebDAV to all of the files hosted in your cPanel account. This default account cannot be restricted or removed and the password always matches that of your cPanel account, so make sure you keep your cPanel account password and username private and secure. However, you can choose to create other accounts with different access permission. Perhaps you have someone who manages your website for you, so you can create an account that only provides them WebDAV access to public_html (your account's web root) without letting them access the files in your home directory (/home/CPANELUSERNAME/). These accounts you create can be added or removed at will. To create a new WebDAV account fill out the details in the (1) Create Web Disk Account box. The login will be whatever username you enter @ your domain name. Example: test@domain.com. Although this looks like an e-mail account address, it is not and should not be mistaken for one. If you want an e-mail address go to the Email Accounts feature on the cPanel home screen to create one. Please be sure to use a secure password or use the Password Generator feature to create a random, secure password. Finally, specify the WebDAV access directory. This new account will have access to the directory specified here and anything contained within that directory. For example, giving access to the public_html/blog directory will give this user WebDAV access to the blog directory inside your public_html directory in your account (and any other directories inside the blog directory) but it would not give this user access to public_html itself or your home directory via WebDAV. If you are granting access to public_html or to a directory inside public_html or some other web root location, keep in mind that anything a user uploads will be publicly available via the web. cPanel will try to warn you if it detects you are trying to create an account with access in this area and remind you to set up password protection for that directory if you want to keep the content and remind you to set up password protection for that directory if you want to keep the content private. By default, cPanel will set the directory to public_html/WEBDAVUSERNAME/ where WEBDAVUSERNAME is the username you specified earlier (without the @YOURDOMAIN.COM part). Example: Creating a "test" account will default to granting access to public_html/test/. If that directory does not already exist, cPanel will create it once you click the CREATE button. At the bottom of this screen is the Web Disk Account Management section. This shows you all WebDAV accounts that are currently set up, the default directory for the account and various features related to account access and management. Each login is listed along with the starting directory for each account. The (2) ACCESS WEB Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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DISK button brings you to a new screen when you can download small programs for each supported OS that makes it much easier to mount the WebDAV disk on your local computer so you can access it. On this new screen, select your OS from the drop-down list and make sure the SSL checkbox is selected if you want to connect securely (which we recommend). Click GO to download the application and run it and it will prompt you for your password. Enter it and a few moments later the WebDAV directory should be mounted as if it were a local hard drive on your computer. If the application doesn't work, check the manual WebDAV instructions in cPanel or those listed below. Finally, in the (3) Actions section, you can change the password for this WebDAV account, delete the account or password protect the directory so others cannot access it via a web browser without the username and password. The main WebDAV account cannot be removed or changed in any way. The password always matches the password for your cPanel account. Connecting manually to a WebDAV directory: If the application to connect to your WebDAV account isn't working, you can try to connect manually using the following information: Domain: YOURDOMAINNAME.COM (you could also use the IP address of your site if you wish) SSL Port: 2077 (connect securely to your WebDAV account using SSL - RECOMMENDED) Non-SSL Port: 2076 (connect without SSL. This is insecure and not recommended unless you are having problems connecting via SSL - In fact our servers may not permit you insecure access.) Username: The login listed in the Web Disk Account Management section on the WebDAV screen in cPanel. This will either be your cPanel username or SOMENAME@YOURDOMAINNAME.COM. Password: The password assigned to the account you are trying to access. Make sure that your local firewall or router (if you have one) allows connections on port 2076 and 2077 or you won't be able to use cPanel's WebDAV feature. NOTE: If you have a WebDAV account mounted as a disk on your local computer, keep in mind that changes you make are being made to your "live" account. Those changes will be immediately reflected in your site (unless the content is cached by the browser, of course). Both Windows and Mac OS use special hidden files to keep track of certain OS level information. On Windows, an example of this is the Thumbs.db file that Windows creates to display thumbnails of pictures stored on a Windows machine. Mac OS X uses ".DS_Store" files to keep track of window settings and other file metadata. When you have your Linux-based hosting account mounted on on your computer, Windows and the Mac OS may copy these hidden files to your hosting account, where they may become visible (on Linux, any file/directory that starts with a "." is hidden by default, but all other files or directories are visible. You may need to clean out these special files from your hosting account, since Linux does not need or require this information and it may be a security risk to leave in place.
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Monitoring Disk Space Usage

Learn how to check your account disk space usage.
Checking Account Disk Space - Graph
cPanel helps you keep track of the amount of disk space your hosting account is using. If you're getting close to your limits or you think you may want to clean out older files to free up some additional space, then accessing cPanel's Disk Space Usage feature from the home screen is a good idea. This feature generates two sets of data, the first being bar graphs showing the directories containing the most data in your account. The bar graphs are plotted relative to the directory currently using the most disk space in your account. The directory using the most disk space will be shown with a full bar and other directories will be shown with bars that are less full depending on how much disk space they use when compared with the directory currently using the most.
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So if your account is using 100 MB of space, total, and your mail directory has 60 MB of data and all the other directories in your account use 40 MB of disk space, the mail directory will show a full bar, and other directories will show less. For example, if your public_html directory uses 30 MB out of 100 MB, then the bar would be half full because the largest directory is 60 MB, and the public_html directory is half that size. A full bar in this graph does not mean that the directory itself is full.
Checking Account Disk Space - Directories
The second set of data (shown above) displays a list of all of the directories in your account, sorted either by their names or by how much disk space they are using (you select how they are sorted at the top of the list). Every directory is listed by the amount of Megabytes (where 1 MB = 1024 bytes) and bytes are contained within the directory. Note that the display doesn't show individual files, only the totals for each directory). If you want to drill down in the list to see what other directories are using inside one of the top-level directories listed, then click on the small + icon next to each directory. You can click on the name of a directory to be automatically taken to the cPanel File Manager with that directory displayed (where you can add/remove or edit files as needed. NOTE: cPanel caches the amount of disk space your account is using because keeping track of the value can place a burden on the server. This means that if you make changes that affect the disk space in your account (adding or removing files) those changes may not be reflected in cPanel for 10 minutes or so.
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File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

Learn how to manage FTP access in cPanel
Creating and Managing FTP Accounts
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The most common way people add files to their web hosting account is via FTP. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and it was designed many years ago to transport files and information between two computers. Most web design software supports using FTP to upload or download files. FTP is not considered a secure transfer protocol. That is because the data you send and receive using FTP is not encrypted in any way during transport. If you require a secure connection, then you will want to use SFTP or FTPS. Both require some additional setup and consideration and will be discussed later.
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Cyberduck: http://cyberduck.io/ Cyberduck supports a wide variety of file transfer protocols, not just FTP. It can also handle WebDAV, Amazon S3, Google Docs and more. This free program works on Mac OS X and Windows. Donations of any size are encouraged. FileZilla: http://filezilla-project.org/ The free FileZilla client only supports FTP (and related) file transfer methods, but it supports Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. The user interface may be a bit daunting for new users. To manage or create FTP accounts, click on FTP Accounts on the cPanel home screen. This will take you to a screen similar to the one shown above. In the Add FTP Account section, you can do just that, create a new FTP account. To start the process you enter the (1) login username. The full username will be username@yourdomain.com where yourdomain.com is your domain name. If you have more than one domain or subdomain assigned to your account, you will also be able to select that domain or subdomain from a drop-down list here. Then you enter a (2) secure password two times (or use the Password Generator. cPanel will automatically suggest a location to serve as the home directory for this FTP account. The (3) home directory (or path) is the directory that the account will start in upon initial login. That FTP user will be able to access all content inside the home directory (path) including all of the directories inside that directory. So if the path is /home/domain/public_html then that FTP account will be able to access everything in public_html or any of the directories inside public_html, but the account will not be able to access anything in /home/domain/ since that directory is "below" public_html. If you don't like the suggested path, then feel free to change it. Select the (4) disk quota for this account (the FTP account will not be able to add more content to this location then you set, even if you have more disk space available to your hosting account). If you set it to unlimited quota, then that FTP account will be allowed to add files to its home directory (path) until you run out of disk space assigned to your hosting plan. Finally, click CREATE FTP ACCOUNT to tell cPanel to create the account. NOTE: The directory that will serve as the home directory for the FTP account will be created if it does not already exist, but if it does exist, the content in that location will not be modified. That FTP account will have full access to any existing content in that location. Also, although the FTP account username looks like an e-mail address (with the @YOURDOMAIN.COM) it is not. If you account username looks like an e-mail address (with the @YOURDOMAIN.COM) it is not. If you want an e-mail account with the same name, you will need to create it separately in the Email Accounts section of cPanel. General FTP Account Details: When you want to access a FTP account you've set up, you should set it up in your FTP client like this: Host: ftp.YOURDOMAIN.COM (where YOURDOMAIN.COM is your domain name). If your domain name has not yet resolved to our server, then you can use the IP address of the server instead. User: ftpusername@YOURDOMAIN.COM (if you are using the main FTP account, then you should use your cPanel username instead.)
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Password: (Use whatever password you've set for the FTP account. If you are trying to access your main FTP account, then use your cPanel account password.) Port: 21 (21 is the standard FTP port) Type of Connection: Passive FTP (Although an active FTP connection may work, generally passive FTP connections are the most reliable since they don't require any special set up on your end.) Path/Directory: Some programs want to know where they should start when they upload files to your account. If you don't enter anything, then the program will start in your FTP home directory, which for your main FTP account is your account home directory: /home/YOURCPANELUSERNAME/ but if you want it to start in the web root for your account, enter the path as /home/CPANELUSERNAME/public_html or sometimes just "public_html." Consult the manual for your program if you are unsure. Transfer Mode: Usually Automatic is fine (the FTP client tries to pick the best transfer method depending on which sorts of files you are accessing) but some files (like encoded web scripts may require you to upload them in Binary mode. If you are unsure or experience problems, set the transfer mode of your FTP client to Binary and try the uploads again. The FTP Accounts section shows you all of the FTP accounts currently active for this account that you've created in cPanel. You can also perform certain administrative actions on each account in this section. You are shown the (5) full username of the FTP account, followed by the (6) home directory for that account (the path). If the path is longer than the space allotted to display it, the path will have an ellipse (!) that you can click on in the middle of the path showing that it is truncated. You can click on the ellipse to pop up the full path. Next you will see (7) how much data this account has currently added to their path via FTP. If you have quotas enabled for the account, the small bar under the quota limits will fill up as the account gets closer to the quota limit you set. Finally, there are a set of actions you can take on the account. This includes (8) changing the password, changing the quota limit, deleting the FTP account and a small draw down section showing the FTP account setup details, which also provides quick links to common down section showing the FTP account setup details, which also provides quick links to common FTP clients as well as small bookmarks you can use to automatically connect the account in those FTP clients. NOTE: If you try to delete a FTP account you've set up, you will be asked if you just want to delete the FTP account or if you want to delete the account AND everything inside the account's home directory (path). Be very careful with this directory removal feature because there is no undo. When in doubt, just delete the account and then manually delete the content using your main FTP account or cPanel's File Manager. There are Special FTP Accounts that the system has set up for you that you cannot alter. Typically there will be 2 accounts listed here. The first is your main FTP account, the login details for which match those of your cPanel account username and password. This account automatically gets full access to everything in your account. If you want to change the password that this FTP account uses, then you need to use the Change Password feature in cPanel to change your cPanel account password. This account also always has unlimited disk quota, so it can upload anything up to the limit imposed by your hosting plan. The second special account is one specially designed for you to be able to retrieve the raw Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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Apache domain logs that show all of the hits your site has received. cPanel does offer graphical stats programs, but if you want to process your logs locally with a special tool you've created or purchased, you use the domain_logs@YOURDOMAINNAME.COM FTP account to access and download those logs. The password is the same as your cPanel account password. The reason this account is necessary is that your domain logs are not stored in your account, they are located elsewhere on the server. This special account lets you download your own site's log files which otherwise would not be possible. SFTP: As mentioned earlier, there is a way to securely transfer files via FTP, called SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol), however, in order for this to work, your account must be set up with SSH (Secure Shell) access (i.e., the ability to access the server's Linux command line). By default this is not enabled in your account. If you require it, please ask for SSH access. Once SSH access has been enabled for your account, you can use your cPanel account details to do SFTP. SSH access is, by its very nature, encrypted, and SFTP leverages that to transfer files via SSH. Most clients that support FTP also support SFTP. To make such a connection, select SFTP as the connection type and then enter ftp.YOURDOMAIN.COM (or the server hostname or your IP address) as the host and your cPanel username and password as the SFTP account username and password. Normally, the port for FTP transfers is 21, but for SFTP transfers, you should use the SSH port you were told to use when your SSH access was set up. FTPS/FTPES: There is another way to securely transfer files using FTP that does not require getting SSH access for your account. It also works with FTP accounts you create in cPanel. This method is referred to as FTPS or FTPES (FTP with Explicit SSL). Despite the similar sounding name to SFTP, FTPS works differently. SFTP relies on another service, SSH, to encrypt all communications between your file transfer client and our server. FTPS uses a SSL certificate to secure standard FTP communications. It's not as secure as SFTP, but it has the benefit of working for all of the FTP accounts you create, not just your main cPanel account. Most FTP clients that support SFTP also support FTPS. The configuration of the host, username. password and port are the same as FTP, but you need to tell your FTP client to use FTP with Explicit SSL/TLS (the exact wording may change depending on your FTP client). To make matters a little more confusing, there is a different type of FTPS that cPanel does not support, called FTP with Implicit SSL/TLS (or sometimes just FTP with SSL/TLS or FTPIS). This version of FTPS uses a different FTP port number (990) than regular FTP or FTPES (21), so if you see the default FTP port change to 990 in your client, you know you've selected the wrong type of FTPS. cPanel does not currently support FTP with Implicit SSL/TLS and there is no way to add it. You must use either FTPES, SFTP or FTP.
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Manage Active FTP Sessions

cPanel allows you to monitor who is logged into your account via FTP. You can use this feature to disconnect users you think may be abusing your account or just to keep an eye on what is happening. To access this feature click the FTP Session Control item on the cPanel home screen.
Creating and Managing FTP Accounts
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If no one is currently connected to your account via FTP, you the screen will look as it does above. Click the (1) RELOAD button to refresh the page to see if anyone is connected. If someone is transferring files, you will see some basic information listed here including the account being used, the IP address the connection is coming from, the time they logged in, the current status of the connection, and the process ID. If you don't like what you see, you can click the DISCONNECT link that appears next to that logged in user. This will immediately stop what the user is doing and kick them out of the server. However, it won't stop them from coming back. If you think the FTP account has been compromised, either change the password for the account or remove it from the FTP Accounts section of cPanel.
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Web Logs and Statistics

The Latest Visitors Log
Learn how to view the list of the latest visitors to your website.
Latest Visitors Logs
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Here you can view all of the most recent hits on your website. Every single access of any file or directory in your website gets logged automatically and the most recent hits will be displayed here with the most recent ones listed first. If you are looking for specific information, you can use the (1) Search box to enter some of the information you are looking for, cPanel will filter out the results that don't match what you've typed and display the rest. If you have a very busy site, this is a good way to keep an eye on important visitors without getting distracted with superfluous information. If you want to increase the amount of hits shown on a single screen, click the appropriate number in the (2) entry number toggle. You can also turn on or off various pieces of information if you want, removing unimportant data so you can focus on what you care about. To edit the columns of data that are shown, click on the (3) gear icon and check or uncheck items as you see fit. Changes are reflected immediately. If you want to refresh the list of recent visitors with the very latest information, click the (4) refresh icon and the list will be instantly updated, with the most recent hits once again at the top of the list. If you'd like to see older hits, you can click through the (5) pages of hits or use the first, previous, next or last links to jump to the appropriate section of the list. NOTE: Not all of the hits from your entire raw domain access logs may be shown, especially if you have a lot of hits. If you want to review the raw logs, please see the FTP Accounts section of this guide to learn how to access the special domain_logs FTP account to fetch your full log file. Also, if this interface isn't working well on your current browsing platform, click the "less javascript" link at the bottom of this page to switch to a different log view that might work better for you.
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Bandwidth Usage Logs

Learn how to keep track of your bandwidth (transfer) to and from your account.
Bandwidth Usage Logs
Another important aspect of your site is how much traffic is traveling to or from your site (how much bandwidth you are using). cPanel tracks that use and periodically updates logs that you can view in the Bandwidth item from the cPanel home screen. This area shows you visual graphs and tables breaking down how much traffic you are getting to and from your site on all of the monitored services (like your website, mail and FTP). At the top of the screen you see charts showing the breakdown of traffic for today, the past week and the past year.
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Under that, you will see pie charts for all of the months we currently have data for. Point at a pie chart to show the breakdown of use, and click on it to be taken to graphs and a table that shows precise bandwidth use, broken down by each day in that month. Click on the number of the day in the table to see graphs for the breakdown by hour for that day. NOTE: It is important to understand that cPanel does not track 100% of the traffic to and from your site, only the most common types of traffic. Your actual bandwidth use as measured in your CORE account may be different. Also, bandwidth use is not updated in real time. Bandwidth processing is a very intensive task and so the graphs may only be updated every 2-24 hours (depending on conditions). Contact Dreamtilt support if you have questions about this.
Web Stats
Learn how to view graphs showing visits to the domains managed by your cPanel account.
Viewing Web Statistics - Awstats
Of all of the various log options in cPanel, none are more popular than the various web stats options cPanel provides. You may have access to up to 2 different stats options, Awstats, and Analog. To access them click on the Awstats or Analog items on the cPanel home screen. Click on the small magnifying glass icon next to the domain or subdomain you want to view stats for and that will open the stats display screen. The purpose of the stats are to give you a more visual and organized view of the data your raw web logs provide. You can Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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see all the hits to your site broken down in a large number of different ways to find out who has been visiting recently, what they were viewing, where they came from and how much data they accessed while there. Depending on your settings and how long you've had an active cPanel hosting account, you may be able to access many months of previous web stat data. NOTE: You cannot compare the data from Awstats or Analog to each other or to the other cPanel log options. Each of them may interpret or display the data from your raw web logs differently. The only valid comparison of web stats are the results comparing the current month's data to previous months (if available) in the same stats program. Also, because generating the visual web stats is a very CPU intensive process, they are only updated at most every 24 hours. If you need more detail for your web site statistics and a more visual appealing analytical statistics web site (as well as emailed reports on your sites performance) please use Dreamtilts own Analytics Tracking software here http://analytics.dreamtilt.com.au. This software is available free of charge to all our website clients however it requires a tracking code to be installed on their website pages. Contact our support for further details if you require assistance in performing this. See the section below on Dreamtilts Analytics Tracking online site.
Raw (Unprocessed) Web Logs

Learn how to work with your domain raw access logs in cPanel.
Raw Access Logs
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archive your logs in your home directory and you can control if logs older than 1 month are kept by checking or unchecking the box next to (2) remove the previous month's archived logs. If you make changes, don't forget to click the SAVE button. You can download your current raw log file by clicking on the name of the domain or subdomain in the (3) Download Current Raw Access Logs table. This will download a Gzip compressed text file to your device or computer. The table also shows the last update entered to that raw log (if there have been no recent hits, the last update will reflect the last hit date). Also, if the logs use any significant disk space, the compressed log size will be listed here (the uncompressed log is likely several times larger). If you have any parked domains linked to that domain, then they will be listed under the Linked Domains section of the table. The hits from these parked domains will be included in the raw logs as hits to the main domain. If you have chosen to keep old log backups, they will be listed in the (4) Archived Raw Logs section. Click the name of the archived log listed to download it directly.
Account Error Log

Learn how to view the most recent errors your account has experienced.
Error Logs
If Apache (the web server) notes any problems or errors related to your site(s), it will record them in an error log. You can view the most recent 300 error messages by clicking on Error Log on the cPanel home screen. The most recent 300 errors related to your web site or problems with web scripts will generally be listed here, so if you are having problems, this is a good place to look. The most recent error is always listed on top. The errors will list the date and time of the error (using the server's set time zone setting), the note if it is an error or warning, the IP address of the person or thing triggering the error and then a brief description of the problem. There is no Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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link to download the errors, but you can copy and paste them out of this window, if you wish. If the error log has recently been rotated, or your site is new, you may not see 300 error messages in this window. That is normal.
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Dreamtilt Analytics
Login to view your web site statistics and SEO data. Dreamtilt Analytics
All our webhosting customers have access to our exclusive website statistics online analytics. You can login and view your website statistics dashboard by going to https://analytics.dreamtilt.com.au and login with your cPanel username and password at the login screen. Once logged in you can view your website data in graphical form and review your sites visits, referrers, length of time visited, where customers visited from and a host of other data. Using the website analytics you can also set goals for your website and track these goals. This may be to track how many clicks on a download link or visits to a landing page as part of an advertising pitch, or tracking sales on an ecommerce site. Before using the software, you must first install a tracking code on your websites pages. The tracking code can be found by clicking on Settings in the top right corner and then select Tracking Code in the menu on the left. You can then provide this code to your website designer or you can have Dreamtilt install this for you on your site for a small fee. Contact Dreamtilt support for more details and a quote on installing.
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Security
Password Protected Directories
Learn how to restrict access to web content using usernames and passwords.
Password Protected Web Directories Part 1
There may come a time when you want some part of your site to be available on the Internet, but only accessible to a few key people. You don't want this part of your site getting indexed by Google and you don't want the public to be able to view it. In this case click on the Password Protect Directories item on the cPanel home screen in the Security section. You will be prompted to choose your starting location and then you will see a list of directories in that location. Click on the small yellow folder icon next to a directory name to navigate into that directory to see other directories contained inside it or click the Up One Level link to go up to the containing directory. When you find the directory you want to password protect, click on the name of the directory. This will bring you to the password protection screen you see. NOTE: If you have the Microsoft FrontPage extensions installed on your account you should remove them before trying to use this feature. FrontPage uses a different, incompatible method to password protect directories. Enabling or disabling FrontPage extensions on your site will wipe out any password protection you set up using this feature. We do not recommend the use of Microsoft FrontPage or its extensions. They were end-of-lifed back in 2006 and are no longer supported by Microsoft.
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To enable password protection for this directory (and any other directories inside this one), click the (1) Password protect this directory checkbox, then type in the (2) optional name you want people to see in their web browser when they are prompted for a username and password and then click the (3) SAVE button. Now the directory is not accessible unless someone knows a user name and password that you set up on this screen. You haven't set up any users yet, so right now no one will be able to access this directory. To disable password protection for this directory, just uncheck the checkbox and save changes. To set up a user, enter the details in the Create User section of this screen, enter the (4) username and password (or use the password generator to create a secure password) and finally, click on the (5) ADD/MODIFY AUTHORIZED USER button to create the user. That new user will appear in the Authorized Users box. You can delete a user by selecting the name from the Authorized Users box and then clicking on the DELETE USER button. NOTE: If you want to change the password for an authorized user, just fill in the Create User area using the same username as an existing authorized user, but with a new password and that user will have their password changed to whatever you choose. Also, you should be aware that there are ways to manually remove the password protection. There is an .htaccess and .htpassword file created in the directory that is protected that controls access to the directory. If that gets deleted by your web site creation software (or yourself) then you Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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will need to recreate the password protection. Finally, password protection is NOT encryption. The content inside the password protected directory is not modified in any way and the password protection only applies in a web browser (someone with a FTP or WebDAV account that has access to this directory will still be able to access and change the content without needing the username and passwords you've set up in cPanel.
Deny Website Access by IP Address

Learn how to deny certain IP addresses from being able to access your website.
Deny Website Access by Blocking IP Address
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If you find one or more IP addresses that are causing problems for your web site (perhaps posting spam to the comment area on your site or trying to attack it, then you can block them so they will not be able to connect to your web site at all. To set this up, click on the IP Deny Manager on cPanel's home screen. From here you can enter a single IP address or a range of addresses or even a domain name into the (1) text box and click the (2) ADD button, and they will no longer be permitted to access you website. Anyone who tries to connect to your web site from an IP address on the deny list will be shown a 403 (Forbidden) error instead of whatever content they were trying to access. Any addresses that are blocked will be shown in the Current IP addresses being blocked section of this screen. From there you can choose to remove any IP addresses currently being blocked by clicking on the small X in the Remove column. You will be prompted to confirm the removal and then the removed IP address or range will be permitted to access your web site again.
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NOTE: This feature works by entering the IP addresses in a deny entry in the .htaccess file found in your public_html (main domain web root) directory. That causes Apache, the web server to deny the connections from those addresses. It does not block access by those addresses to some other services (like mail, for example). If you need to block an IP address completely from all contact with your site for some reason, please make sure you have a good reason and then contact support who can assist you. Also, adding too many IP addresses to the deny list can potentially slow down access to your site or create load issues on the server, so if you need to block a lot of IP addresses, please contact support for assistance.
SSH (Shell) Access

If your account includes SSH access, learn how to access and manage it.
Managing SSH (Shell) Access
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cPanel, FTP and WebDAV are not the only ways you can interact with the content in your account. For particularly advanced individuals or those who need advanced features, it is possible to get SSH (Secure SHell) access to your hosting account. This gives you a secure command line interface to your Linux-based hosting account. If you are not familiar with what this is, then you likely do not need it. For security, your account does not come with this feature enabled, though if you need it, you can contact support to request it. If you have SSH access enabled for your account, you can manage the settings or even connect to your account directly from cPanel. All you need to do is to click the SSH/Shell Access item on the cPanel Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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NOTE: Remember, in order to use SFTP you will need to have SSH access enabled for your account. There are two primary ways of authenticating to gain access to your SSH account. The first is through a standard username and password. Your SSH account username and password exactly match your cPanel account username and password, so make sure you keep those private and the passwords long and secure. The second method of authenticating requires a public/private encryption key pair. Think of an encryption key like a real key that is broken into two pieces. In order to gain access, you need both parts of the key as well as a secret password. Part of the key (the "public" part, remains on the server. The private (secret) part of the key pair remains with you on your local computer or device. It is not enough to have the two parts of the key, you must also know the secret password used to "unlock" the key pair and allow you to gain access to your account. This is much more secure than just relying on standard password authentication. With standard authentication, anyone to gains access to your cPanel username and password can gain access to your SSH account. However, if the login is restricted to a public/private encryption (SSH) key, then someone would not only need your secret password, they would also need to obtain a copy of your private key. In addition, with an encryption key, if you think your key has been compromised, you can "revoke" the key and generate a new one, meaning that the compromised key will no longer work. There are lots of ways to generate a secure encryption key, but we'll focus on cPanel's own implementation. To manage your key settings, click on MANAGE SSH KEYS. From this screen you will be able to generate a new key, manage the authorization status or upload an existing public key. At the top of this screen, if you click (1) Generate a new Key you will be taken to an interface where you will be asked what sort of key you want to create, how large the key should be and also be asked to enter the password you will use to access the private key.
SSH Key Generator
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You can give this key any name you want, but you can leave the id_dsa name if you wish. Each key you create should have its own name (in this case). There are two different key types. DSA, the default is faster for the server to create, and RSA takes longer to generate (but generally not too long) but will be faster when you authenticate with it. If you don't have a preference, just leave DSA selected. The key size controls how secure the key is and how hard it would be to "crack" if someone got a hold of the key. 1024-bit is the minimum value. This size is secure and quicker to generate and to use. A larger value is more secure but takes longer to generate and more time to use. If you don't know what to use, the default value of 1024 is fine. Your password should be long, secure and random and not the same as any other passwords you use. Remember this password, if you forget it then you will need to delete this key and create a new one to use. Click the GENERATE KEY button to have the server create the new key. Once the new key pair has been generated, you will need to get the private key onto the device you want to use to access your SSH account and you will also need to authorize your new public key for access to your account. To do that, first click the View/Download link in the Private Keys section. If you are going to be using a Mac or a Linux machine to access your SSH account, you can just click the DOWNLOAD button on this screen to save a copy of the private key to your local computer. Generally, you need to place this key file into the correct location (or specify the location you are using when you try to connect with it). Mac OS X: 1) The correct location is in /Users/YOURSHORTUSERNAME/.ssh/ - That location won't be visible to you, so you need to use the Finder's Go to Folder feature or the terminal to access this location. 2) In the Finder, click on the Go menu and then select Go to Folder. 3) In the window that appears, type the path: /Users/YOURSHORTUSERNAME/.ssh (Where YOURSHORTUSERNAME is your Mac OS X user account name (the short version that is typically lowercase. Don't forget the . before the "ssh" part of the path.) 4) A new window will open and it will probably be empty, unless you've generated other keys before. 5) Drop the id_dsa file into this window. 6) You will use the program of your choice or the included Terminal application (at /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) to make a connection once you are ready and the key is authorized. 7) If you use the Terminal to connect then the connection string should look like this: ssh -l USERNAME YOURDOMAINNAME.COM -p SSHPORT# (the USERNAME is your cPanel username and YOURDOMAIN.COM is your domain name or its IP address, and the SSHPORT# is the port you were provided by us when we set up your SSH account.) 8) Now you need to authorize the public key for connection before you actually try to do so. Linux/Unix: 1) Save the private key file into the appropriate location for your chosen OS. Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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2) If you are unsure where to place the key, place it anywhere you want, but don't forget to specify the private key's location when you attempt to connect using the Linux/Unix terminal. 3) Use the program of your choice or the Linux/Unix terminal to make a connection once you are ready and the key is authorized. Windows using PuTTY, a free terminal emulator, needed because Windows does not have built-in terminal emulation like other OS systems: 1) You first need to convert your private key into PPK format, this is the format that PuTTY uses. cPanel includes a conversion process on the (7) View/Download screen for the private key. Just enter the private key password into the box on this page and click CONVERT. In a moment, the PPK version of the private key will be displayed. You can click the DOWNLOAD KEY button to save the key to your computer (anywhere you want for now). Alternately, you can use the PuTTY Gen program in Windows to convert the standard OpenSSL key into the appropriate format. 2) When you start PuTTY, you can can specify the key you want to use in the SSH Auth section of the interface. Click BROWSE to select the private key you just downloaded and PuTTY will try to use that key to connect. 3) Set up the rest of your SSH session as normal. 4) You may want to save this session so you can use it as a shortcut to connect once the key is appropriately authorized. Regardless of which operating system you use or the program you use to connect, if you use the key to connect, you will be prompted to enter the password. This should be your encryption (private) key password and not the password of your cPanel account. Now that you are ready, you can authorize the public key for access to your account. Go back to cPanel. Click the (2) Manage Authorization link in the Public Key section of the screen. Click the AUTHORIZE button that appears. Now you are ready to connect. We suggest that you try to connect to your SSH account at this time using your new key. If you are able to log in, then go back to the SSH Key management screen in cPanel, because there is a last bit of housekeeping to take care of. You need to make sure you keep your private key safe. Do not share it with anyone or leave it in a public location. Once you are sure you have good local copy of your key, you should delete the version of the private key that is currently stored on the server unless you plan to use the Java based SSHTerm in your browser to connect to your account via your key (more on that later). To remove the private key from the server, make sure you have a good local backup of it and then click the Delete link in the Private Key section. You will be asked if you really want to delete it. If you are sure, click the DELETE KEY button. Doing this will make sure that even if someone gains access to your cPanel account they will not get a copy of your private key. The public key needs to remain on the server if you want to use it to connect to your SSH account. If you want to temporarily disable access with the key pair, click the Manage Authorization link again and click the DEAUTHORIZE button. This will leave the key in place but it will not Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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be able to be used to log into your SSH account until it is authorized again. If you want to use the public key for other purposes or use it to authorize access somewhere else, click the View/Download link in the Public Key section. Click the DOWNLOAD KEY button if you would like to save a copy of the public key locally to your device. To remove the key completely, click the Delete link in the Public Key section and confirm the deletion by clicking the DELETE KEY button. There are no more warnings, so make sure you are certain you want to do that. If you prefer to use a key you've already created elsewhere to authorize your SSH account, you can do that by clicking on the (3) Import Key link. On this screen, you enter the name for your key (if you don't enter one it will be called id_dsa) and then paste in your public and/or private keys into the appropriate boxes. We do not recommend uploading your private key to our server, as there is generally no need to do that. If you don't want to upload the private key then just leave the private key box empty. Finally, click the IMPORT button. Once done, you can manage your keys as normal. Don't forget to authorize the public key if you want to use it to connect. NOTE: In many SFTP clients you may also be able to use your SSH key to log into your FTP account. Just enter your cPanel username and your private key password. So long as your SFTP client knows where your private key is, it can use that to authenticate. If you are not in a location where you can use a local SSH/Terminal client to connect to your account, you may be able to use the Java-based SSH/Telnet clients that cPanel offers, so long as your web browser supports Java. Whenever possible, be sure to use the SSH client rather than Telnet because it is more secure. To connect to your account inside your web browser using a Java based SSH terminal, click on the CONNECT USING SSHTERM button (this will only appear if your account has SSH access enabled). This will open a new window and download a small Java applet that will run in your browser to emulate a standard terminal. You can use your cPanel account username and password to authenticate or your public/private key pair if you've saved both on our server and the key is authorized. SSHTerm is secure and will work for most needs, but it is not as full-featured a terminal application as PuTTY or the terminal on Mac OS X/Linux/Unix. The benefit to this app is that you may be able to use it in places that you normally would not be able to access a secure terminal. cPanel also provides a Java based Telnet terminal program. Telnet is basically an insecure, unencrypted version of the SSH protocol. You cannot use telnet to directly connect to an SSH account and we do not directly support unencrypted telnet access to your account, so we recommend you avoid this app and use the SSHTerm instead.
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Hotlink Protection
Learn how to stop other people from directly linking to the content on your website.
Keeping Your Account Secure Hotlink Protection
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If you are having issues with people linking to your content without actually sending people to your site (your media content is loaded from your website but displayed on their website as if it is their content), there are ways to deal with this. This practice is known as "hotlinking" and it is a problem because when people do this, they are not only stealing your content without your approval, they are using your bandwidth, so you foot the bill as well. To stop this from happening, click on the HotLink Protection item on the cPanel home screen. To enable or disable hotlink protection, click the (1) ENABLE or DISABLE button. If you are enabling hotlink protection, make sure you've correctly managed all of the settings and you should also run tests on your site to make sure that the hotlink protection isn't causing problems for you. If there are problems, disable the protection and review your hotlink settings below to make sure they are correct. The most important setting for hotlink protection is the list of allowed URLs to access your media content. Each URL should be listed on a separate line in the (2) access box. cPanel automatically fills this box with all of the possible permutations of any main, addon, parked or subdomain. Add any other sites or domains that also should be allowed to directly request the media from your site. NOTE: For hotlink protection, "www.domain.com" and "domain.com" need to both be listed separately.
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You can also control what sort of content receives hotlink protection. This is most frequently the picture files on your site, but it is possible to block hotlink access to other sorts of media by their extensions. By default, cPanel protects JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP files, but you can add or remove whatever you want in the (3) block direct access box. The items listed there should be the extension of the files you want to protect (the part of the file name after the period), separated by commas with no spaces or periods. You can choose to allow direct access to the protected media content (i.e., allow someone to directly load the media file in their web browser by entering the full path to that one item) by checking the box next to (4) Allow direct requests. If you are having problems and you are sure your list of allowed URLs is correct, then try checking this box and see if that helps. Also, you cannot only block the attempt of others to hotlink to your content, but you can redirect their requests to a URL of your choice. So instead of them getting the JPEG of your latest master work, they get a picture that says "do not hotlink." To do that, enter the full URL (including http://) that you want to redirect to into the (5) text field provided for that purpose. If you may any changes to the hotlink configuration, be sure to click the SUBMIT button to apply the changes. Any time you make a change and hotlinking is enabled, you should run tests on your site to make sure your media content is loading. NOTE: We do not recommend turning on hotlink protection unless you think you are likely to have problems with people stealing your content. Hotlink protection is an advanced security feature that can cause problems for you if you don't configure it properly.
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Stop People from Sharing Account Information to your Site

Learn how to stop people from overusing the access details for password protected directories.
Password Sharing Leech Protection
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If your site has password protected areas that you use to restrict some content to paying members, then "account sharing" may be a problem for you. That happens when a legitimate member of your site starts "sharing" their login information with other people so they can also access your content without having to pay you additional money. cPanel offers a limited form of "leech" protection to prevent this sort of login sharing that only works with the Password Protection feature that cPanel offers. If you want to prevent account sharing in cPanel password protected areas of your site, click on the Leech Protect item on the cPanel home screen. To set up leech protection, all you have to do is answer a few questions and enable this feature on a directory that already has password protection enabled. The first box asks you (1) how many times you want to allow an authorized user to log into your password protected Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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You may be tempted to make this number quite small, but remember that a single user may need to log in a few time if their browser or computer crashes, they get disconnected from the Internet or otherwise leave your site and need to come back. This value has to be a whole number and cannot be zero. Next, you need to enter the (2) special URL that you automatically send people to if their login goes over the 2 hour limit set above. This URL can be any valid address anywhere on the web, but this page must exist somewhere outside of a password protected area or the user may not be able to see it. The best choice is to a page explaining the issue and perhaps directing them to your signup page. If you want, you can also have the (3) server send you an e-mail to an address of your choice any time someone is detected going over the limit you set. If you do set yourself to receive an e-mail but you don't disable the leechers account automatically, then you may get a lot of e-mails as you will get a new one every time that user logs in again. You can also choose to have the server automatically disable the account by clicking the (4) Disable Compromised Accounts checkbox. This will restrict the account by removing the password from the password file. They won't be able to log in because nothing they enter as a password will work. You will still see their account user listed in the Password Protection section of cPanel, though. If you need to, you can reset that user's password there to allow them to once again access the protected content. The system is not capable of restoring disabled accounts automatically, so it is a good idea to enable the e-mail notification so you can contact the user or completely remove the account, as appropriate. Finally, click the (5) ENABLE button to enable leech protection or (6) DISABLE to stop the protection. Stopping the protection does not remove the authorized users or the password protection, it only stops the login tracking. If you have not already enabled password protection, or if you want to review users or add new ones, click on the (7) MANAGE USERS button. This will take you directly to the Password Protection feature in cPanel. NOTE: As mentioned earlier, this feature will only work if you use the Password Protection feature of cPanel. Thus, it will not work properly if you have Microsoft Frontpage server extensions installed in your account, because FrontPage uses a proprietary method of securing content that is not compatible with the Apache standard method that cPanel uses.
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Mail Encryption with GnuPG!
Learn how to add and manage GnuPG keys to encrypt mail.

Encrypt Mail with GnuPG/PGP Keys
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E-mail is an inherently insecure method of communication. It is plain text sent across the Internet with no encryption. This is fine for most people, but you or your company may require that sensitive e-mail messages be encrypted. cPanel supports the generation and storage of one of the more popular ways to encrypt mail. PGP/GnuPG. PGP, which stands for Pretty Good Privacy is a key-based encryption system. It works similarly to the SSH encryption keys discussed earlier in the SSH section of this guide. You create a key in two parts. One part, you keep to yourself and use it to encrypt and decrypt messages using the key and a secure password you've set. This is your private key. The other half of the key pair, the public key, is a key you can freely give to anyone who may need to send you encrypted data or e-mail. The sender can use your public key to encrypt mail to send to you so that only you (with your private key and password) can decrypt the message and turn it back into text. Theoretically, no one can read the content of the encrypted message but you. GnuPG is a fully open-source implementation of the PGP standard. cPanel does not directly support key-based encryption of mail. This requires additional software on both the sender and recipient's end. However, cPanel does support the creation and storage of GnuPG keys on the server to make them easier to access when needed. To work with these sorts of keys, click the GuPG Keys item on the cPanel home screen. The first section of this screen (1) Create a New Key allows you to do just that. You enter the name to be associated with this key, the e-mail address that this key will work with (although cPanel does not support it, it is possible to create a PGP-style key that works with Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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several e-mail accounts, but generally, for security, it is best to generate separate keys for separate e-mail accounts), an optional key comment or nickname and a secure password (entered twice). It is generally recommended that you set your key to expire after a certain period of time (1 year is usually a good idea). This forced expiry makes sure that even if someone does get a hold of your private key, they won't have an unlimited amount of time to try to crack it. Since brute force methods to crack a large key could take many years, it basically keeps communication safe. The key does not "self-destruct" Mission Impossible style after the expiration date, but the key won't be valid for use any longer. If you decide you want to let your key last forever, don't enter anything in the (2) Expire Date box. Otherwise, enter the timeframe as directed. The (3) key size is also important. The larger the key size, the harder the key is to crack if someone gets a hold of the private key, but the longer the key takes to be created or to be used (the larger the key the more time the server will take to generate it, so there you do need to be patient. It may take several minutes. Generally though, the time differential between the smallest and largest key sizes in actual use isn't really significant unless you have a slow computer). 1024 is the typical value for a key, but you can choose up to 4096 if you want. Finally, click the (4) GENERATE KEY button to have the system create the key for you. Alternately, if you already have a key you've generated elsewhere, you can upload it to your account using the (5) IMPORT KEY button. Just paste the text key data into the box presented and click IMPORT. You can import either public or private keys, one at a time. If you have some keys stored in your account, you can view the whole key, the key details or choose to delete the key. If you'd like to learn more about PGP/GnuPG or public key encryption schemes, visit the GNU Privacy Handbook or the PGP Wikipedia page.
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Managing your Domains

Subdomains
Learn how to add, remove and change subdomains in cPanel.
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(1) drop-down list (yes, it is possible to create subdomains of subdomains, so for example, if you domain name is yourdomain.com.au, you could create this.is.my.yourdomain.com.au which is 3 subdomains deep) then you type in the (2) subdomain name (the part at the front of the domain name before the first period. Whatever you type in there, cPanel will automatically fill in the (3) Document Root with a suggested value which is a directory of the same name inside the web root for your main domain (public_html). If you accept this value, then sub.domain.com and domain.com/sub will both go to the same content. However, if you want the subdomain to feel more "separated" from the main domain, delete the suggestion and type the name you want to use as the document root (home) for this subdomain. If you do that, without the public_html, then the subdomain sub.domain.com will NOT be accessible from domain.com/sub (since the home directory for the domain is now "above" your main domain's home directory of public_html. If you look at the bottom of the screen shot above, you can see that there are two different subdomains created, one, site2.yourdomain.com.au which has its home in /home/domain/site2/ and is not accessible via yourdomain.com.au/site2 and another one called test2.yourdomain.com.au whose home directory is /home/domain/public_html/test and is available via yourdomain.com.au/test (as well as test2.yourdomain.com.au). When you are done setting up your new subdomain, click the (4) CREATE button to create the new subdomain. NOTE: Subdomains you create are usually accessible in your web browser immediately after you create them, however, in some cases it may take a bit longer (sometimes up to an hour) for the new subdomain to start working. The subdomain is set up right away, but for some people their local DNS servers may not pick up this new subdomain entry for a bit. You can make changes to your subdomains in the Modify a Subdomain section. There you will see a table of your subdomains and their current settings and available actions. First you see the (5) full subdomain name. Then comes the (6) document root (subdomain home directory). You can click on the document root itself to go to the cPanel File Manager to add/delete/upload files right from your browser) or you can click the small pencil and paper icon next to it and you can change the document root for the subdomain if you want. Note that changing the document root does not move or remove the existing subdomain directory, it just creates or sets a new location. So if you change it you will need to manually move/remove files from the old location. Next, you can see any (7) subdomain redirection you've set up. A redirect will cause anyone who goes to that subdomain (like sub.domain.com) to be automatically and instantly redirected to some other location, anywhere on the Internet. For example, you could have a subdomain like charles.mydomain.com that automatically redirects people to Charles' real website that he hosts elsewhere. By default that automatically redirects people to Charles' real website that he hosts elsewhere. By default there is no redirect, but if you want one or if you want to remove an existing redirect, click on the (8) Manage Redirection link and enter the URL you want people to be redirected to automatically when they visit this subdomain. The URL can be any valid address anywhere on the Internet. If you want to remove the redirect, click the button to remove it. The subdomain will remain in place, but people will no longer be redirected when visiting it. Finally you can delete the subdomain completely.
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You do this by clicking on (8) Remove and then confirming the removal. Note that this does not delete the home directory for this subdomain or the files located in that directory. If you want to also remove those files you will need to do so manually. NOTE: If you have an addon domain pointed to a subdomain, cPanel will not permit you to remove the subdomain. If you want to remove it, you must remove or move the addon or parked domain that is pointing to that subdomain first. If you have a lot of subdomains, you can search through them quickly by typing all or part of the subdomain into the Search box and clicking GO. This will display only the subdomains that match what you've entered. If you want to use a subdomain like a mini web hosting account for friends or family, you can go to the FTP Accounts feature and set up a FTP account that uses the subdomain's document root (home directory). Then give the person you've set up this subdomain the FTP account username and password you just set up and they can manage their website. You can also set up e-mail addresses or e-mail forwarders for subdomains, so they can even have custom e-mail accounts to use with their subdomain. Just remember that these people will not have access to cPanel and the full feature set that provides and they will be using your plan's disk space, bandwidth and other resources. If they have serious needs, we suggest you refer them to us for a full hosting account or you can upgrade your account to a reseller plan and handle it yourself.
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Addon Domains
Learn how to add additional domains to your cPanel account (if supported by your web hosting plan).
Addon Domains
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On some of the plans we offer, you may be permitted to host more than one domain in your cPanel account. If this is permitted, click on Addon Domains on the cPanel home screen to add another domain to your cPanel account. Addon domains can appear to be completely separate content to visitors, but in reality, addon domains are a special sort of subdomain of your main cPanel hosted domain. Addon domains share the features and resource limits of your cPanel hosting account. That means your addon domains share the total amount of disk space you are allowed to use with your main domain. The same goes for bandwidth and other features. All of this is managed from one cPanel account. NOTE: It is not possible to create another cPanel hosting account just for the addon domain). If you are looking to create multiple cPanel accounts for multiple domains, then you
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need to purchase separate webhosting plans. Things you need to do before you add the domain: Before you can add on a domain to your cPanel hosting account, make sure your plan allows for at least 1 addon domain. If not, please contact us to discuss a hosting plan that does allow you to host multiple domains. Next, you will need to register the domain you want to add onto your account (you must do this before trying to add it). You can register the domain through us or through another registrar if you wish. Finally, you must point your new addon domain name to the same nameservers that your main cPanel hosted domain is using. This is done by logging into your registrar and updating the nameserver records for the domain to those we gave you when we first set up your hosting account. If you are unsure how to do this, please contact your registrar for assistance. Once you have the domain registered and using our nameservers, then you are ready to proceed. On the Addon Domains screen in cPanel, you can create your addon domain by filling in some basic information. First, you need to enter the domain name you want to add to your account by entering it in the (1) New Domain Name field. When you enter the domain name do not enter "www." that is not part of the domain name. cPanel will automatically set up "www." when it creates your addon domain. Your domain name is just YOURDOMAINNAME.COM (the domain you've registered). Also, capitalization in the domain name itself does not matter and will be ignored by cPanel. Once you've entered the domain name, cpanel will automatically fill in the next two fields with suggested values based on the domain name you've entered. You can change the suggested values to whatever you want, or leave them as-is. The (2) Subdomain/FTP Username field lets you enter a short name without spaces or non-URL-safe special characters that will be both the FTP account username (the FTP username will be whatever you type here plus "@YOURMAINDOMAIN.COM" where YOURMAINDOMAIN.COM is your main cPanel domain). The name you type in this field will also be the name of the subdomain that is created in your main domain. By default, the username cPanel will suggest is the main part of your addon domain name without the TLD/SLD (.com, .net, ,org, etc.) Feel free to change it if you want to use something else, without the TLD/SLD (.com, .net, ,org, etc.) Feel free to change it if you want to use something else, but keep in mind that it cannot match the name of an existing subdomain or FTP account. The (3) Document Root field will be where the content for your addon domain is served from. By default, cPanel will suggest /home/YOURCPANELUSERNAME/public_html/ADDONDOMAINNAME.COM. This will place the addon domain within the web root for your main domain, so the addon domain would not only act like a subdomain (http://addon.domain.com) but also be accessible as a directory of your main domain (http://domain.com/addondomain.com/). You may not want this because it makes it easier for people to figure out your addon domain isn't really hosted separately from the main domain. You can choose to make the document root for your addon domain appear in the home directory of your main domain (outside the web root). That would be /home/YOURCPANELUSERNAME/ADDONDOMAINDIRECTORY. If you don't place your addon domain inside public_html, then users who figure it out would still be able to access your domain at addon.domain.com, but they would not be able to access it as Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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http://domain.com/addondirectory so it makes it that much less obvious. NOTE: If you don't like the way addon domains work (as special subdomains of your main cPanel domain) then you may want separate hosting plans per domain. As discussed earlier, this allows you to create separate cPanel accounts for each domain you wish to host. That way, they remain completely separate. Contact our sales department if you are interested in a number of hosted plans. The last step before creating your domain name is to enter a (4) secure password, two times. You can use the Password Generator feature to automatically create a secure password if you want. Click the (5) ADD DOMAIN button to have cPanel start creating your addon domain. NOTE: The process of adding domains to your account is very complex. cPanel is not only creating a new subdomain and FTP account, it is adding your addon domain details to your cPanel account and to the web server. This process can take time, so please be patient. DO NOT click the ADD DOMAIN button multiple times or close or navigate away from this page until cPanel tells you the process is complete. If you do, you may stop this process and cause problems that our support department may need to fix for you before you can attempt to add on the domain again. If the process finishes and cPanel displays an error, please make a note of exactly what cPanel said the problem was and then go back and correct it (if you understand the issue) or contact our support department for assistance. Once you have at least on addon domain, the (6) Modify Addon Domain section will show you the details for your addon Once you have at least on addon domain, this screen will show you the details for your addon domain, including the full addon domain name, the current document root of the addon domain (you can also click the small pencil and paper icon to change the document root of the addon domain if you wish), the subdomain/FTP username, any redirect you may have set up, and a set of actions you can take concerning your addon domain. You can choose to set up redirection, which will automatically send people visiting your addon domain to some other location (either in your account or somewhere else on the Internet) or you can remove the addon domain. If you choose to remove the addon domain, cPanel will attempt to delete the addon domain itself, as well as the subdomain used by this addon domain and also get rid of the FTP account for this domain. If there are problems removing any of these things, you will be told and you can try to delete the subdomain and FTP accounts separately if you wish. If you have problems with the removal and cannot figure out the issue, please contact support for assistance. If you have many addon domains, you may find it useful to use the Search feature. Type in at least part of the domain you are looking for and cPanel will show you all of the addon domains that match what you've typed.
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Parked Domains
Learn how to add or remove parked domains if your web hosting account supports it.
Parked Domains
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If your hosting plan allows you to host multiple domains in your account, then you can also add additional domain names that all mirror the content in your main domain. Parked domains are not designed to be separate domains with discreet content (like addon domains). The parked domain takes you to exactly the same content as your main domain. The parked domain name will stay in your web browser's address bar in some cases, but many scripts, redirects and HTML pages with absolute links may change the URL back to your main domain, because that is the way the links are formatted. Adding a parked domain is much simpler than adding an addon domain. Click on the Parked Domains item in on the cPanel home screen to get started. Things you need to do before you park the domain: Before you can park a domain to your cPanel hosting account, make sure your plan allows for at least 1 parked domain (if your plan allows you to host multiple domains, you probably already have access to this feature. If not, please contact us to discuss a hosting plan that does allow you to host multiple domains. Next, you will need to register the domain you want to park on your account (you must do this before trying to add it). You can register the domain through us or through another registrar if you wish.
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Finally, you must point your new parked domain name to the same nameservers that your main cPanel hosted domain is using. This is done by logging into your registrar and updating the nameserver records for the domain to those we gave you when we first set up your hosting account. If you are unsure how to do this, please contact your registrar for assistance. Once you have the domain registered and using our nameservers, then you are ready to proceed. To park a registered domain that is already using our nameservers, please type the domain name (without www.) into the (1) add domain field and click the ADD DOMAIN button. It will take cPanel a few moments to finish working, so please be patient and do not close or navigate away from this page until cPanel confirms that it is finished. If you get an error, go back and fix the problem and then try to park the domain again. If you are unsure what to do, make a note of the exact error message you received and contact support for further assistance. NOTE: All parked domains are set to mirror your main domain's content. You cannot park a domain on top of an addon domain at this time. Once you have at least one parked domain, you will find it listed at the bottom of this screen. From there you can see the parked domain name, the parked domain root directory (public_html), any redirects you've set up and finally a set of actions related to this parked domain. You can choose to remove the parked domain so it no longer is part of your account and you can Manage Redirection if you want to have people visiting your parked domain name automatically redirected to some other location, either in your account or somewhere else on the Internet. Finally, if you have a lot of parked domains, you can use the Search field to quickly find what you are looking for. Type part of the domain you are looking for into the box and click GO and cPanel will display only those parked domains that at least partially match what you've entered.
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Domain Redirection
Learn how to use cPanel to redirect traffic from one place to another.
Domain Redirection
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When you are driving, if a street is under construction, you may be temporarily or permanently directed to take another route to get where you are going. The same thing is possible with web traffic. To set up this feature click on the Redirects item on the cPanel home screen. From here, you can set up temporary or permanent redirects for your site. A redirect does just what it says, if a user visits the location you have set up a redirect for, they will immediately be sent to the alternate location you specify. Users won't notice any difference between a temporary or permanent redirect and both redirects act exactly the same in a browser. However, where the choice of a temporary or permanent redirect matters is when search engines explore your site. The type of redirect you choose actually sends a different code Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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number as it asks for the redirect. If the redirect is permanent (the content in the existing location will never return) then Apache sends a code 301 redirect. This tells search engines to stop listing this particular link in their search results and instead list the location that you are redirecting to. Good search engines should eventually stop listing the redirected URL in their results. A temporary redirect causes Apache to send a code 302 with the redirect request. This tells the search engine that the content at this link is currently not available, but it may be again in the future. The search engine will continue to list the location in their search results and will periodically recheck the link to see if the redirect has been removed and content restored. To create a redirect, first select the (1) type of redirect you want. Remember, this will affect search engine results, so if you only expect the redirect to last a short time, choose temporary, if you don't ever expect to have real content in this location, choose permanent. Then select the (2) domain or subdomain you want this redirect to apply within. You can choose any one addon or parked domain or subdomain or you can choose to have the redirect apply to all domains and subdomains in your cPanel account (all public domains). If you want this redirect to apply only to a subdirectory in the domain(s) you've selected, type it in the (3) field next to the domain selection drop-down list. If you want the redirect to apply to the main domain or subdomain you've chosen, leave this field empty. Then you need to enter (4) the full URL to the location you want to have people redirected to. This URL can be any valid URL. Now you need to decide if you want your redirect to also apply to users who type "www." in addition to your domain name or not. Choose the correct (5) radio button next to the choice you want to select. One final decision to make before creating your redirect is to decide whether you want the redirect to pass along the file you are trying to access to the redirected location. Enabling this is called a (6) "wildcard" redirect. For example, if the wildcard redirect is enabled and the redirect is from http://domain.com/ to http://otherdomain.com/ and the user is trying to access a file called "file.php" (http://domain.com/file.php) the wildcard redirect would send the user to http://otherdomain.com/file.php. If the wildcard redirect is off, then http://domain.com/file.php will be redirected to http://otherdomain.com/ (without the file.php). Once you've made your choices, press the ADD button to create the redirect. NOTE: The wildcard redirect feature cannot be used to redirect people from the main domain in your cPanel account to a file in a subdirectory elsewhere in your site. Once you've created at least one redirect, it will be listed in the (6) Current Redirects section of this screen. You can see the domain the redirect applies to, the directory (if any) that this redirect is active in, the URL that people are being redirected to, the type of redirect (either permanent or temporary), if the redirect applies to URLs with "www." entered or not, the wildcard status of the redirect and finally, you can click the X icon to delete the listed redirect if you no longer want it. You will be asked to confirm your choice. Also, if you have a lot of redirects set up, you may find it easier to use the Search field. Type in some part of the redirect you are looking for and click the GO button and cPanel will display only those redirects that match at least partly what you've typed.
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Simple DNS Zone Changes
Learn to add or edit certain basic record types to the DNS zone(s) for your domain(s).!
DNS Zone A and CNAME Records
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The feature described here is very advanced. Don't attempt to use this if you aren't aware of the ramifications. Making the wrong addition or change may adversely affect the loading of some or all parts of your website. If you are uncertain, please contact Dreamtilt support for assistance and we can make the needed changes for you.! cPanel does allow you to make additions to the DNS zone for the domains and subdomains hosted in your cPanel account. To use this feature select the Simple DNS Zone Editor from the cPanel home screen. A DNS zone file contains critical information about your domain and where to find various parts of it. With the Simple DNS Zone Editor feature you can add or edit additional A and CNAME records. An A record points part of your domain to a particular IP address. A CNAME record serves to alias one name to another. NOTE: This feature does not let you edit existing A or CNAME records created automatically Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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by cPanel, you can only add, change or delete additional records with this tool. If you need an existing A or CNAME record changed, please contact support for assistance. Also, this feature will not work if you are not using cPanel to manage your DNS settings (for example, if you are managing DNS at your domain registrar). To add a new A record, enter the (1) name of the record you want to add in the Add an A Record section of this screen. The name must include a domain name hosted in your cPanel account. For example, if you have mydomain1.com and mydomain2.com managed in your cPanel account, then you can create an A record for location.mydomain1.com or sub.mydomain2.com but not for location.mydomain3.com. Next, you enter the (2) IP address that you want the name you just entered to point to. The IP address can be any valid address, it doesn't have to be the IP address assigned to your cPanel account. When you are ready, click the (3) ADD A RECORD button. If you've entered information that appears to be correct, cPanel will add the record and reload the DNS zone on your server. If not, you will see an error. Check your entry and try again. To add a new CNAME record, enter the (4) name in your domain that you want to have alias some other name or location. This name must be in one of the domains managed by your cPanel account. The (5) CNAME record location you enter, however, could be in any valid domain anywhere on the Internet. The CNAME is where the record in your domain will be aliased to. Click (6) ADD CNAME RECORD when you are ready to commit this new record. cPanel will warn you if it detects a problem with the record you've entered. If so, check your entry and try again. NOTE: Although cPanel will add the appropriate record to your domain's DNS zone almost right away, DNS entry information can take time to propagate. This is due to the way the DNS system works and not due to any issues with cPanel or this feature. Therefore, you may be able to access the changed record you've entered almost immediately, but it could take up to 24-48 hours to be picked up by your local DNS servers. The records you add with this tool will appear in the User-Defined Records section of this screen. Here, you can see all of the details of the records you've added and also (7) delete them if you choose. NOTE: If you are looking to change your MX (mail) record, please see the MX Record section of cPanel.
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Databases
Working with MySQL Databases
Learn how to manage MySQL databases in cPanel.
MySQL Databases Part 1
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Your hosting account provides access to MySQL databases. A database is tool that allows you to collect all sorts of data in one place and then work with that data in various ways. Databases are commonly used by popular web scripts in order to store the content of the site (text and settings and sometimes files) separately from the design/code of the site. NOTE: If you are looking for a quick way to create a new database and user for a script you are trying to install, you may find it easier to use the MySQL Database Wizard feature in cPanel. Skip down to the next item in this guide to learn more about how it works. cPanel allows you to easily create, manage and remove MySQL databases. Click on MySQL Databases from the cPanel home screen to access this feature. To create a new database, all you need to do is to enter the name you want to give it into the (1) New Database text field then click the (2) CREATE DATABASE button.
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NOTE: Your cPanel username and an underscore character (_) will automatically be prefixed to the database name you enter. So if you enter "data" then the full database name will be "CPANELUSERNAME_data" where CPANELUSERNAME is your account's cPanel user name. Also, database names can only contain certain characters, may not be over a certain length and must be unique. cPanel will stop you from trying to create a database with a name that will not be valid. Databases you have created will appear in the Current Databases section of this screen. You will see the (3) full database name, the (4) current size of the database (the size information is cached by cPanel and so the size information will only update every few hours or so), the (5) names of any users assigned to the database (click on the name to change the user's permissions for this database or click the red X to remove that user from this database without deleting the user), and finally, you will be able to (6) delete the database itself. If you have a lot of databases, you can quickly search for the one you are looking for by using the Search text field. Enter part of the database name you are looking for and click the GO button. cPanel will only display those databases that match what you've entered. NOTE: If you delete a database, any users assigned to it will not be deleted, but all of the data in that database will be permanently deleted unless you have a backup. Also, you will likely see a database that matches your cPanel username that you cannot edit or delete. This is a database that stores important information about your MySQL databases and it is automatically handled by MySQL and cPanel. You should not attempt to delete the database.
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When you create a database, it will start off without any structure or data in it and no one is allowed to access the database. If you want to be able to add data to the database or set up a script to do so, you will want to add a MySQL user to allow access to the database. Just like you need a username and password to access your cPanel account, you also need a MySQL user and password to be able to work within a particular database. A single MySQL user can have access to password to be able to work within a particular database. A single MySQL user can have access to multiple databases and can have different sets of permissions concerning what they are allowed to do inside the database. To create a MySQL user, enter the last part of the name into the (1) Username text field. Like the database name, your cPanel username and an underscore character will be automatically prefixed to the username you enter, so keep that in mind. Enter a password for this MySQL user two times in the (2) Password fields or use the Password Generator feature, then click (3) CREATE USER. The final step is to add the user you just created to a database and set the permissions that you want to allow that user to have in that database. To do that, select the (4) user and the (5) Database to add them to and then click the (6) ADD button. This will open a new screen, where you can select the sort of commands/queries they are allowed to run on the database.
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MySQL Database Creation Wizard

If you just want to quickly create a MySQL database and user so you can start working, or if you're afraid you might miss a step in the standard MySQL management screen, then you will want to use the MySQL Database Wizard feature found on the cPanel home screen.
MySQL Database Creation Wizard
The wizard walks you through creating a database, then creating a MySQL user for that database and assigning permissions to that user. When done, you the database will be fully ready for use (for example, by a web script you've installed in your hosting account. The interface for doing all of this matches what was discussed above in the main cPanel MySQL Databases section, so if you want to understand how all of that works, please read about those features above. NOTE: If you need to add extra MySQL users to a database or if you want to use an existing user in a new database, then you will need to use the MySQL Databases item in cPanel to do that. The wizard only covers creating a new database and assigning a new user to it.
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PHPMyAdmin
Learn how to use phpMyAdmin to handle advanced MySQL database tasks.
PHPMyAdmin
Although you can easily create and delete databases and users in the main MySQL Databases feature in cPanel, you cannot actually work with the data inside the databases. However, cPanel includes a specially configured piece of third party software so you can do just that. It is called phpMyAdmin. To start working with it, click on the phpMyAdmin item on the cPanel home screen. phpMyAdmin is a complex program that can do very powerful things. It is basically a graphical front-end to the MySQL database service. Explaining how phpMyAdmin works is beyond the scope of this guide. If you need assistance working with phpMyAdmin, then we suggest you review the resources available here: http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/docs.php NOTE: The version that cPanel offers is specially modified to maintain account/database security and it does not offer all of the features you typically find in phpMyAdmin. For example, you will not be able to create databases using phpMyAdmin. If there is a feature you are looking for and it doesn't work as expected or is disabled, it is for security reasons/compatibility with cPanel. You should create/remove MySQL databases or users via the MySQL Databases feature in cPanel, not in phpMyAdmin. If you aren't familiar with phpMyAdmin or MySQL queries, we suggest that you avoid using phpMyAdmin because it is possible to destroy or alter data permanently if you do something wrong.
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Enabling Remote MySQL Access

Learn how to enable or remove remote access to your MySQL databases.
Databases Managing your MySQL Databases Remotely
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By default, MySQL databases you create can only be accessed by local processes or users, but you can, if you wish, access your own MySQL databases remotely (perhaps to work on them using some special application like Navicat MySQL). NOTE: Enabling remote MySQL access for your databases can be a serious security risk, so only enable it if you are absolutely sure you need it and _never_ enable it for all IP addresses. Further, make sure all of your MySQL user passwords are long, hard to guess and very secure. It would be best to enable remote access for your specific IP address only when you need it and then remove the access host when you are done working. You can add your IP address again later if you need remote access again. All changes you make on this screen take effect immediately. To enable remote MySQL database access, you have to tell MySQL which IP address(es) to allow. To do this you enter the IP address in the (1) Host field and then click the ADD HOST button. NOTE: You can use the % character as a wild card. For example, in the screenshot above, the access host 192.168.1.% would allow anyone on the IP addresses 192.168.1.0 through 192.168.1.255 to access your MySQL databases remotely. PLEASE BE CAREFUL! For security reasons, we strongly recommend against using wildcards to allow access to your databases. Once you've added an access host, you can see all of the ones you've added in the (2) Access Hosts list and then choose to (3) remove the access host so it can no longer access your databases.
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Software and Services

CGI Software
Learn how to add and configure some simple CGI scripts for use on your website.
Working with Software and Services CGI Scripts
In cPanel's Software and Services section, you can view, add, change and remove various addon features that can help enhance your website. For example, cPanel offers a few Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripts that may help you enhance your site with web to e-mail form generators, clocks, timers and other tools. To access this area, click on the CGI Scripts item on the cPanel home screen. Click on the item(s) you are interested in and follow the directions presented to configure them. NOTE: You may have access to an item called "Simple CGI Wrapper." If so, you do not need to use this item and should not install it. We run CGI scripts as suexec automatically (meaning that the CGI script runs as your cPanel user rather than the user "nobody") which is exactly what this feature was designed to do (to add support for that feature on hosts that don't already support it).
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Add/Remove Software
Learn how to use cPanel to add and remove some software from your account. cPanel has the ability to install some web scripts that you can use to enhance your website. However, we offer other web script installation options and we encourage you to use them instead of this feature. However, if you want to investigate the few options you may have available to you here, click on the Site Software item on the cPanel home screen. NOTE: Do not worry if you don't see a lot of software available here, because as we stated, we offer Softaculous web script auto-installation options that update more frequently and offer more options than those that cPanel offers itself. Please read on to learn more about the Softaculous web script auto-installer features we offer.
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Perl Modules
Learn how to view the list of installed Perl modules.
View and Install Perl Modules
One of the programming languages that our web hosting accounts support is Perl. Perl is modular and extensible. This means that new features can be added through Perl modules. This allows Perl to gain new features as needed and yet not have to ship with every possible feature built into the core of the language. cPanel itself is written largely in Perl. Because of this every cPanel server has lots of addition Perl modules installed that extend what you can do with Perl in your own scripts. To see what perl modules are available on your server, you can click on the Perl Modules feature on the cPanel home screen. On this screen you will see a list of modules and in some cases be able to see documentation related to the use of that module. If for some reason you don't see the Perl module you need to get your own Perl script working, please contact technical support and let us know what you need. Dreamtilt support will review your request and if the module in question won't cause problems for the server or other clients we may choose to install it for you so you can use it. Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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NOTE: Since cPanel itself is written largely in Perl, it specifically requires Perl version 5.8.8 and if you have a Perl script that requires a much older or newer version of Perl, it may not operate properly on our servers. There is nothing we can do about this. Changing the installed version of Perl would break cPanel.
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PHP Modules and Settings

Learn how to view the list of installed PHP (PEAR/PECL) modules.
PHP Extensions and Applications Package Installer
Another popular programming language that we support in our web hosting accounts is PHP. PHP is a very popular language on the web. A lot of notable web-based software is written in PHP. Although PHP is not as modular as Perl is designed to be, PHP still has a number of optional modules that can be added to it. If you would like to see what is available on your server, click on the PHP PEAR Packages item on the cPanel home screen. From this screen, you can view all of the installed modules in PHP and view documentation (geared towards developers). NOTE: Because PHP/PEAR/PECL modules take more time and resources to install and use, we generally limit all clients to those modules that are already installed on the server.
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PHP Settings
PHP has several settings that may affect the way your PHP-based scripts will run. You can view those settings by clicking on the PHP Configuration item on the cPanel home screen.
PHP Settings
On this screen you will see a list of the settings that most frequently affect the operation of PHP scripts. Dreamtilt webhosting server currently supports PHP 5.4.x. NOTE: PHP settings changes must be added to a custom php.ini file. If you need some PHP settings changed, please contact technical support for assistance and we can make the changes for you. Be aware that there are some settings we will not change for security reasons or in order to maintain a good hosting environment for everyone.
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Softaculous
Learn how to use Softaculous to install and manage popular web scripts.
Softaculous Web Script Autoinstaller
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There is a lot of great software out there that you can use. Software like Wordpress, Joomla, Prestashop, Magento, Moodle, OpenCart, Feng Office, and many, many more. If you're not comfortable installing a web script yourself, we offer Softaculous. It handles all of the "heavy lifting" for you. Answer a few questions and shortly you will have software installed on your website, ready for use! To get started, click on the Softaculous item on the cPanel home screen. Softaculous offers a large number of scripts and frameworks that it can install, all of which can be accessed in the (1) sidebar on the left of the screen. Click the small arrow icon to the right of a category you are interested in to reveal the items in that category. Softaculous can not only install lots web scripts, but it can also install various frameworks, javascript and even Perl applications. By default, the list shows all of the scripts written in PHP. But you can switch to the other types of scripts/frameworks by clicking the appropriate (2) Scripts category. Because Softaculous offers so many scripts, it may be difficult to find one you are looking for. For that reason, there is a (3) Search feature. Enter part of what you are looking for and only the items matching your search will be displayed in the sidebar.
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Once you've selected a script you are interested in, a description of it and some basic information about it will appear in the main section of the screen. You can see support information, the amount of space required to install it, the latest version available (along with a "chat bubble icon" next to the version that you can click on to inform Softaculous' maintainers that there is a newer version of the script available than the one that is currently offered in Softaculous). Finally, you can rate the software to let people know if you like it or not. If this script is something you want to install, then you need to direct your attention to the actions list that appears just above the script description. This is the Overview tab. You can click on the Features tab to view more information concerning what this script can do for you, look at Screenshots, try out a Demo of this script (which is actually hosted on Softaculous' own server), see Ratings or read or write a Review of this script. To install a new copy of this script, select the Install tab and fill out the required information. Depending on the script, the exact information you will asked for will vary, but it generally includes specifying where you want the script installed, the script administrative details and password (Softaculous offers a random password generator, but the passwords are rather short and not as secure as they could be) and core script information (site name, etc.). Once done, you can enter an e-mail address to get a copy of your install details sent to that address or choose to install the script without doing that. The installation process may take some time, so please be patient. When done you will be shown the links to access the main script and the administrative interface. Once a script is installed, it will appear under the list of Current Installs, including links to the script as well as to the administrative area. You will see the date and time you installed the script, the currently installed version and a set of options that relate to that particular installation. If there is an update available, there will be an upgrade icon here. Click it to start the upgrade process. You an update available, there will be an upgrade icon here. Click it to start the upgrade process. You will be asked to confirm the upgrade before starting. Click the zipped folder icon from the overview screen to back up the installed script and data. This will take you to a screen where you can choose what to back up and then actually have the script handle the backup. Note that backups can be CPU intensive and you should try to do your backups during offpeak hours to be kind to other users on the system. Also, the backup creation may take a long time or even fail if the script is too large. If so, you may want to backup your data with cPanel or handle your backup manually using FTP. After the backup Softaculous will place it in the Backups and Restore section (more on that in a bit). The next icon will let you view (and even change) some of the key details relating to this installation. Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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Finally you can click on the X icon to delete this installation. You will be asked to confirm your choice before the script is actually removed. If you have several installed scripts, you can select several of them by clicking the checkbox next to each one you want to do something with and then select the option from the "With Selected" drop-down list and click GO. At the very top of the Softaculous screen are a bunch of (4) feature icons that will take you to different areas of Softaculous. The blueprint and hammer icon will take you back to cPanel, the house icon will take you to the main Softaculous home screen, the arrow will take you to Softaculous' script demo site, the star will take you to the script rating feature, the box will take you to a screen listing all of your Softaculous-managed installs so you can upgrade, backup, edit or remove them. The wrench and screwdriver icon will take you to the Softaculous settings screen where you can set the default Softaculous interface language, the time zone setting and the default state of the script category menus in the sidebar. The zipped folder and arrow icon will allow you to mange your Softaculous backed up scripts. Here you will be able to download the compressed backup, restore the install from this backup or remove the backup so it doesn't take up disk space in your account any more. The envelope icon will let you change Softaculous' e-mail settings. You can control what sorts of things Softaculous will e-mail you about and what address it sends these e-mails to. The round chasing arrows icon will allow you to try to import installs make by other autoinstallers like Fantastico so that Softaculous can manage it from now on. Finally, the question mark icon displays some basic help information about Softaculous. NOTE: While using web scripts can really improve the functionality of your website, it is important that you keep all scripts updated. The primary way hackers break into sites is by using known bugs in popular web scripts. Using Softaculous is a simple way to keep your scripts updated.
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Dreamtilt Website Builder

Learn how to use the Dreamtilt Website Builder and construct a stunning website online in just minutes.
Dreamtilt Website Builder Select Template
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Dreamtilt offers clients the option to construct their own website using our online website designer. To begin, click on the Site Builder icon. From the next page select the domain you are designing the website from. If you have other domains or subdomains they will be listed here, so pick the right domain and root directory you want the website to be saved in. Once you click on the domain, the website design builder will open and display a number of random templates to start your website building. From the (1) menu on the left you can select either all templates or select the particular category and browse the website templates available. Once you select the template, click on the Select button under the template. The designer window will now open and allow you to change the template online.
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The top of the designer page will display the toolbar. The toolbar contains a number of icons that allow you to perform changes to the webpage. The first thing to check is that the (1) Current Page selected is the page you wish to work on. Initially this will always be the Home web page. (You can edit the name and number of webpages by clicking on drop down arrow beside the page and edit the menu names, add menu items (both internal and external web page links), and change the style of the menu). The webpage itself will have default text, pictures and other designs items (such as social icons and links) that can be edited online.
To edit the items in the web page, simply click on an item (image, text box, etc). The item will then display in the left corner a move icon and in the right corner a pencil icon. Click on the move icon to move the item around on the webpage to different locations until it fits your design requirements. Click on the pencil icon, and you can edit the text or change the image (and upload your own images).
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From the tool bar you can drag and drop items into your web page.
Text: Drag the Text icon into your page to display a text box. You can then add and format the text to suit your design requirements. You can edit the style, size, and colour.
Picture: Drag the Picture icon into your page to show a picture. When you drag the picture on to the page it will open up a Change Picture window. From here you can then select a template image or upload your own image to put into the page
Gallery: Gallery is similar to picture except you select multiple picture items to be displayed. Select the images you want to be displayed and an image slideshow will be inserted into the page. Drag the slideshow to the size you wish to display.
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You Tube: Drag a You Tube icon on to the webpage and a default You Tube video will be displayed. Click on the video and then select the Pencil icon to display the You Tube properties. Enter the You Tube URL or You Tube video ID (at end of You Tube URL) and then select options for your video display size. Click Apply when complete ! !
Google Maps: Drag the Maps icon to the web page, then click on the Pencil icon to edit the Google Map location. To change the location of the marker, click on the Advanced Tab and enter the location (this can be an address or longitude, latitude). Click on Options to change the size of the Map image. ! ! ! ! Shape: Shapes are a good way of introducing a background behind an image or text. Drag the shape to the page then select the edit Pencil icon. In the Properties of the shape you can adjust the opacity, border and shape colour. To change the roundness of the corners either increase or decrease the number for each corner as required.
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Line: Lines allow you to separate sections on the page. Drag the line to the page, then click the Pencil icon to edit the line properties.
Button: Drag the button icon to the screen to create a clickable button that will take a user to another webpage, internal webpage, email link or download a file. Click on the Pencil icon and in Properties change the button text. Then click on the pencil beside no link selected to set the function of the button. Once done, click on States and Options to change colour, style, size and other options.
Form: What a contact form on your site? No problem. Drag the Form icon onto the page, click the Pencil icon and select Properties, then select the Fields you want in the Form. Once done, select Email to set up where the form goes to and set the Style of the form under the Styles tab. Easy.
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Menu: Want to add a side menu or footer menu? Got it covered. Drag the menu item to the page and click on the edit Pencil icon, then select Properties. Add the menu items, internal or external links, then select Menu Style and select vertical or horizontal orientation. Change the colour, style of font and size in the other tabs.
HTML: Maybe you have some specific HTML code or script you want to add to the page. Too easy. Just click and drag the HTML icon to the page and click the edit Pencil icon and then paste in whatever code you require including our Dreamtilt Analytics tracking codes!
PayPal: Want to sell a few items online. Not ready for an all out ecommerce store and start simple? No worries. Drag a PayPal icon to the screen, then click the edit icon in the top right and select Properties. Enter the information required and hey presto you can take online Paypal payments. !
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Music: So you are a band and have a sample track you want to play. Or you might like to add a bit of sound to your site. Whatever the case, you can add music files and MP3 files to your site easily. Drag the music icon down, select the edit Pencil icon and click on Properties. Then beside the MP3 icon click on the Pencil icon again and then upload your music file. Done.
Banner: You have seen those fancy big banners across sites? Look cool right? You want one can do. Drag the banner icon to the page, click the edit icon and select Properties. Then you click on the edit Pencil icon again and add whatever image you desire. You can even have it clickable to take you to another webpage. Got some script to run for the banner? Enter it under the Script banner tab.
Flash: So you have a bit of Flash to add to your site. Good for you. Drag the Flash icon down, select the edit icon and then click on the Pencil icon to start the upload process of your Flash file.
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AdSense: You can add your own Google AdSense into your page. If you have a Google AdSense account, copy the required HTML from the Google AdSense site and paste it into the HTML box. Click Apply and there you have it Google AdSense set up on your page.
Want to get Social? Click on the Social button on the toolbar and a new toolbar will show you or the social options you can add to your website easily. Select from facebook, Skype links, twitter, or Flickr. Just drag the icon to the page, then click on the pencil edit icon to add the required details.
More Options click on the drop down arrow beside the gear cog and another menu will open giving you even more control and options about the look of your site. With SEO you can add Google Analytics tracking. Background can change the image, position and look of the background image or colours. Styles can change the font format of the text used throughout the site. Favicon will change the icon displayed beside the web address in browsers. With the width option you can change the display for various screens (default size is recommended unless you are displaying specifically for mobiles or tablets)
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When you are complete and happy with the page, dont forget to Save the page. Click on the Floppy Disk icon and select Save Draft. When you have finished all your pages, click on Publish.
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The website builder will then connect via FTP to your site and upload all the required files. This may take some time, so allow it some time to program and transfer the files as required. When completed you can browse to your new site online! The website builder will also remember your site in the future so you when you need to make changes to your site you can log back into the website builder easily and update online all your required changes and then publish the site again. The Dreamtilt Website Builder is perfect for those who are on a tight budget and want a graphical interface to build a simple website easily, quickly and cost effectively before venturing into a larger more costly full website design.
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Advanced Features
Apache Handlers
Learn how to define new Apache handlers in cPanel.
Adding and Removing Custom Apache Handlers
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There are some features that cPanel provides for users with more advanced or unusual needs but that aren't required for typical site operation. All of these features are in the cPanel Advanced section. The first of these features is the Apache Handlers item. This allows you to quickly add or change the way Apache (the web server our servers use) handles certain file extensions. Most people will never need to add anything here, because Apache automatically knows how to handle all of the most common extensions. However, if you want to add or override a handler, just enter the specific (1) handler and the (2) extensions you want to be handled, separated by spaces and then click the ADD button. You will see a list of your custom handlers and the system default handlers at the bottom of this screen. You cannot remove the system handlers, but you can override them with your own handlers if you want. You can remove user defined handlers, though, by clicking the X in the Remove column. NOTE: Be careful when adding or editing handlers. You can break your site if you are not careful. This feature works by adding or editing an "AddHandler" directive to your .htaccess file in the public_html directory. A bad handler may cause certain file types to be downloaded Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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to the visitor's computer when accessed or generate a 500 error or a blank page. Do not confuse Apache handlers with MIME types. They are not the same thing. Apache Handlers tell Apache (the web server) how to handle certain types of files internally. MIME types will be discussed later.
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Image Management
Learn how to edit images in cPanel.
Working with Images
cPanel offers a few tools that help you prepare images for use on your web site. To use them, click on the Image Tools item on the cPanel home screen. You will have three tools to choose from. The thumbnailer creates separate, smaller versions of large pictures, suitable for use as thumbnails on your site. This feature works by taking a directory full of images that you have already uploaded into your hosting account and creating smaller versions in a separate directory. The first thing you need to do is upload a directory full of images that you want to create thumbnails of. You can use any method you prefer, FTP, WebDAV, cPanel's File Manager, etc.). The thumbnailer allows you to navigate your account in the same way as other cPanel features do. Select the small icon of a folder next to the name of a directory you want to navigate into and then click on the actual name of the directory to tell thumbnailer you want to create thumbnails of the pictures inside that particular directory. cPanel will then ask you how large you want to make the thumbnails and then it will get to work, displaying the progress. It may take a while to finish. When done, you will see a link to the directory that cPanel has created specially to hold the new thumbnails (your originals are not modified). Clicking on the link will display that directory in cPanel's File Manager feature. This feature supports most popular image formats. The image scaler feature resizes a single image at a time and unlike the thumbnailer, you can increase the size of the image if you wish, not just shrink it. However, just as with the thumbnailer, you need to have already uploaded the image you want to resize to your hosting account. You then select it as normal. Click the folder icon next to a directory name to navigate into that directory and click on the file name to select that file to work on. You will be shown the file and asked for the new dimensions, either in pixels or in a percentage (100% being the same as the current dimensions). Changing one dimension will automatically change the others to try to maintain the correct aspect ratio unless you uncheck the "Keep Aspect Ratio" box. Finally, you can choose to keep a copy of the original (unmodified) file with a new file name or you can uncheck the box and the original will be changed. There is no going back once you click the SCALE IMAGE button, so make sure that is what you want. If you want to return the various settings to the original ones prior to committing changes, then you can click the RESET DIMENSIONS button.
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The convert image format feature attempts to turn a file saved in one common format to another common format of your choice while keeping as much of the original picture data as possible. Once again, you need to select a directory or a single file that you have already uploaded to your account. Click the folder icon next to a directory that you want to navigate into and click on the title of the directory or file you want to convert. You will be asked to select the destination format for the converted file. Once you do, cPanel will go to work and tell you if the conversion was successful. The original files will remain in place, but they will be joined by the newly converted files. So you will need to manually delete any files you don't want.
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Web Index Management

Learn how to control what the web server does if a directory does not contain an index file.
Index Manager Choose Directory
By default on our servers, if you access a directory in your site that does not have an index file (index.html, index.php, default.html, etc.) the web server will display all of the directories and files in that directory with the file names and small icons for each file type. This is called fancy indexing and can be convenient if you want to offer a directory full of items for people to view or download. With fancy indexing on, you don't need to create a special HTML or PHP page with links to each file or directory. However, you may not want to allow people to see the files and directories, so you can control the behavior of the web server by clicking on the Index Manager item on the cPanel home page. You can select any web-accessible directory and set the options for it. NOTE: This feature works by modifying the .htaccess file in the directory you choose. Remember that settings in .htaccess files automatically cascade to all directories contained inside the current directory (unless another .htaccess file in a subdirectory overrides the setting). This means that you can change most or all directories settings just by selecting public_html as the directory you want to change index settings for.
Index Manager Apply Setting
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(the setting inherited from a .htaccess file above the current directory or the default fancy indexing if no settings are specified) or switch to no indexing (anyone trying to access a directory without an index file will receive a 403 error (forbidden), standard indexing (listing the directory and file names only without additional graphics) or fancy indexing (displaying file and directory names with graphics and some additional info to make it easier to identify the types of items the user is looking at). Once you have selected your preferred setting, click SAVE to apply the change.
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Custom Error Pages

Learn how to add and edit web error pages that get displayed to visitors.
Apache Custom Error Pages
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Sometimes, despite your best efforts, visitors to your site may run into an error or problem when visiting your site. Most of the time, our web server will display a very basic error page that lets the user know there has been a problem (for example, they've tried to load a page that doesn't exist) but that error page isn't very descriptive and won't match the look of your web site. You can use cPanel to enter custom error pages that get displayed on your site instead of the default ones. To get started with this feature, click on Error Pages on the cPanel home screen. If you are hosting several domains with your cPanel account, you can (1) select the domain you want to edit the error pages for and then (2) click the error number you want to edit. There are (3) two tabs at the top of step 2. The first tab shows only the most common error numbers (the ones you are most likely to want to create custom error pages for), but if you click Show All HTTP Error Status Codes then you can create custom error pages for any web server error code. This will display a custom text editor that will allow you to input raw HTML code or plain text that will be displayed in a user's web browser if they see this particular error type. If you already have a custom error page then the existing page's code will be displayed. There are some buttons above the text editor to input some special HTML codes to display information to the user (like the user's IP address, web browser, requested page, etc.). Once done editing the page click the SAVE button at the bottom of the screen. NOTE: Many popular web scripts include their own error handling code so you won't see the Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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custom error pages you've designed. In this case, you need to enter the administrative area for the web script you've installed and edit the error pages there instead of in cPanel.
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Cron Jobs
Learn how to add, edit and remove cron jobs in cPanel.
Working with Cron Jobs
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You may need to be able to execute certain commands or scripts at a specific time or interval. cPanel allows you to set up regularly scheduled items like this via something called a cron job. In order to set this up you need to click on the Cron Jobs item on the cPanel home screen. Setting up a cron job tells our server to run a particular command at a specified time, this is handy if you have a web script installed that needs to perform certain tasks even if no one is visiting your site (like checking a mail account or running cleanup tasks). To set up a task, you should first make sure you enter an e-mail address that you check regularly into the (1) Email field. The current e-mail setting will be displayed above that field and if you want to change it, click the (2) UPDATE EMAIL button. The output of any cron jobs you enter will be sent to this address. The output can vary, from nothing at all, to only errors to the output of the script or a notification that it was run successfully. By default you should expect Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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to receive the output of the command you are running (just as you would see on screen if you ran that same command via the command line. Your typical cron job is made up of two parts, the time you want your job to run and the actual command you need the server to execute. To set one up, you have to first choose the time you want the job to run. You can specify a specific time or the frequency you want the command you specify to be run. The time component of a cron job is fairly flexible, but you need to understand a few basic things before you can use it properly: 1) There are separate fields for minutes (valid range 0-59), hours (valid range 0-23), days (valid range 1-31), months (valid range 1-12) and weekdays (valid range 0-6 with 0 = Sunday, 1 = Monday, 2 = Tuesday, 3 = Wednesday, 4 = Thursday, 5 = Friday, 6 = Saturday), in that order. 2) The jobs are run on the server time. Our servers typically use the time zone Brisbane, Queensland. 3) Hours are handled in 24 hour/military style (rather than using AM or PM). 0 is midnight, 12 is noon, 23 is 11 PM 4) An asterisk (*) covers every instance in that field (for example * in the minute field will run the job every minute (depending on the other fields, of course). 5) A / symbolizes "divided by" and will divide how often the job runs by the amount you specify. For example: */15 in the minute field will run the job every 15 minutes (every minute divided by 15 is every 15 minutes or 4 times per hour, depending on the settings in the other fields, of course.) 6) A comma (,) separates discreet values in a time field. For example, entering 0,20,35 into the minute field will trigger the job to run at the top of the hour and then again at 20 minutes and 35 minutes past the hour, depending on the settings in the other time fields. 7) A dash (-) specifies a range of values in a time field. For example, entering 1-30 in the minute field would run the job every minute between the first and thirtieth minute each hour (depending on the settings in the other time fields). Here are a few examples of correct time values and what they represent: */30 * * * * - Runs the job every 30 minutes, every day. 0,30 9-17 * * 1-5 - Runs the job two times per hour, at the top of the hour and 30 minutes after the hour between the hours of 9 AM and 5 PM only on weekdays (Mon-Fri). 1 0 1 1 * - Runs the job once a year on January 1 at 12:01 AM, server time. cPanel includes common time values pre-configured. Just select the one you want from the appropriate (3) drop-down list and cPanel will set all the values accordingly. Alternately, you can manually enter the values you want to use in each (4) time field. Next, you enter the command you want to run into the (5) command field. The command would be as you would enter it if you were logged into the server and executing it via the command line.
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So if you have a PHP script you need to execute, you can use php, wget, lynx or curl to execute the script. For example: /usr/bin/php -q /home/YOURCPANELUSERNAME/public_html/scriptdirectory/script.php /usr/bin/wget -q /home/YOURCPANELUSERNAME/public_html/scriptdirectory/script.php /usr/bin/curl /home/YOURCPANELUSERNAME/public_html/scriptdirectory/script.php Although you may have customized PHP settings in your account, cron jobs always use the server default values unless you specify a different configuration (php.ini) file. You can do that using: php -c /home/YOURCPANELUSERNAME/path/to/custom/php.ini /home/YOURCPANELUSERNAME/public_html/scriptdirectory/script.php Check the documentation for the script you are using if you are uncertain what needs to be executed. When you are done, click the (6) ADD NEW CRON JOB button to set up the job. The job will be active right away (though it won't trigger until the conditions you've set up for timing are met). NOTE: We ask that you DO NOT run cron jobs every minute. Cron jobs can be quite process intensive and running them too often will negatively affect server performance for everyone. Also, please make sure that you give your cron job enough time to finish running before starting the next iteration. So for example, if your cron job takes 3 minutes to run, then don't run the job every 3 minutes. Run it so the server has time to finish and "rest" a bit between runs. Generally, you shouldn't ever need to run a cron job more frequently than every 5 minutes. We reserve the right to ask you to adjust your cron start times or even disable a cron job if we find that it is causing problems. Any cron jobs you've added will be listed in the (7) Current Cron Jobs section. This includes the time settings for each job as well as the command being run. You can choose to (8) edit or delete each job separately.
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Network Tools
Learn how to use a few common network tools to try and track down issues.
Network Tools
cPanel includes a couple of tools that can sometimes help to track down problems with your site. To use them, click on Network Tools on the cPanel home screen. There are two different tools, Domain Lookups, that have our sever check the DNS records for any valid domain you enter to find out the A Record (the IP address the domain points to). You can enter your own domain name or some other domain and cPanel will tell you what IP address the domain resolves to and show you the output of the tool used to gather that information (dig). For security reasons, the second tool that cPanel offers, the Trace Route tool, will not work (we do not allow outbound trace routes). The trace route attempts to trace the path packets of information take to get from our server to your current location. This typically shows each machine the packets pass through to reach you. Trace routes are handy if you are having problems accessing your site and you want to see if the problem is caused by a machine somewhere between our server and your current location. Sometimes a failure between you and our server can cause you not to be able to properly access your site, even though your site is online and operational for others. If you think you may be having such a problem, please contact our support team. If needed, they will explain how to run a trace route or path ping (which is similar to a trace route with slightly different output). If there is a problem on our network, we will work to fix it, but if there is a problem locally (on your end) you may need to contact your ISP for assistance.
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MIME Types
Learn how to add or remove custom MIME types so media is handled properly in your web browser.
Adding Custom MIME Types
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There is a wide variety of content available on the web including HTML pages, scripts written in various languages like PHP or Perl, movies, streaming media, RSS, etc. Did you ever wonder how your web browser knows what to do with all of this content? Why does your browser display rendered html pages but offer to save a .zip file you click on? Much of this is handled through MIME types. MIME stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions and it was originally designed for use by e-mail clients (thus the name). Although MIME is still the most commonly used name for these codes, they can also be referred to as Internet media types (which is perhaps more descriptive of their current use). Whatever you choose to call them, they are designed to accomplish the same task: Let your client (web browser, e-mail program, etc.) know how to handle the data that is being sent to it. This is done through simple plain-text codes and file extensions (like .html or .php). Our web servers have a lot of MIME types already set up for the most commonly used media types, but if you want to add or edit types, you can do so using the MIME Types feature on Dreamtilt 2014 Dreamtilt Webhosting cPanel Guide !
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NOTE: Although they may seem similar, Apache handlers and MIME types are not the same. MIME types specify how a user's web browser handles files sent to it by our web server, while handlers tell our web server how to deal with certain types of files internally. To set up a new MIME type or to alter one of the default system types, you can enter the type you want to change into the (1) MIME Type box. MIME types all follow a basic pattern. A content type followed by a / and the specific sub type. For example, text/html is the MIME type for HTML content. To control which file extensions are defined by that particular MIME type, enter the extensions without a period and separated by a space. For example: html htm html5 NOTE: If you want to see a list of all of the defined MIME types that are available, visit this page: http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/index.html Any custom MIME type additions or changes you make will be listed in the (2) User Defined MIME Types section of this screen while the default MIME type associations will be listed in the (3) System MIME Types section. The MIME types you add will override the default system MIME Types if they overlap. NOTE: This feature works by editing the .htaccess file in your public_html directory adding the MIME types you've specified, so these types will apply to nearly all of your web content.
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Extra Apps for Webhosting

CP Control Panel for iPhone and iPad
Run your webhosting from your iPhone or iPad
CP Control Panel www.cpios.com
CP Control Panel can be downloaded from www.cpios.com.au or you can search for it in Apple iTunes. Once installed you can easily monitor and maintain your webhosting account from anywhere and anytime from your iPhone or iPad.
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CP Control Panel Screenshots and Setup
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Setting up the connection to your web hosting account is simple once downloaded. Open the app and then click on the + button to create a profile. When the New Profile page opens up, enter your (1) profile name which can be your business name, then enter your (2) web domain name and then enter your (3) cPanel login username and cPanel login password. Once completed, click on the Save button in the top right. You can then maintain your webhosting account from your iPhone or iPad from anywhere!
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Piwik Mobile 2 for Website Analytics

View your website statistics from your smartphone or tablet at any time. This app can be used with our Dreamtilt Analytics software (see section ). If the Dreamtilt Analytics tracking code is not installed on your website no statistics will be available. Piwik Mobile 2 is available here - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/piwik-mobile2/id737216887?mt=8 for iPhone and iPad Piwk Mobile 2 is available here https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.piwik.mobile2 for Android phones and devices
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Final Thoughts
We hope you've found this guide to be useful. If you have any questions or concerns not covered here, please feel free to contact our Dreamtilt support. We're always here to help you! We appreciate your business and hope that you will recommend us to others for their hosting needs.

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