Web Concepts

By Mitch “cPanel is Your Friend” Keeler

Your .htaccess file, with any Apache based server or hosting account is a very powerful tool that if you can learn to use for your advantage can help you complete many time consuming or difficult tasks with ease. How do you create one though for your web hosting account? This is a question that we get here time to time, and here is your solution.

Login to your cPanel with your user name and password, then once you have made it in, head over to your File Manager. Now the File Manager’s interface is a very familiar Windows-styled look at your files on your hosting account. You will want to click on your folder icon next to your public_html link next, that will take you to the insides of the public_html folder.

Inside you will see all your web site files. You need to scan down the page till you see the bold text, Create a New File. Click that and you should get in the upper-right corner a box with a few more setting to fill in. In the empty text box, put in .htaccess. Keep the drop down box on Text Document and then hit the Create button.

Now you have your .htaccess file inside of your public_html folder all with the help of cPanel and your helpful File Manger.

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Author: Mitch Keeler

What is FTP all about? It stands for File Transfer Protocol. FTP is the TCP/IP standard way of transferring files across the Internet and between computers.

An FTP account is the quickest and easiest way for you to get content up to your hosting account and down from your hosting account. If you need to transfer many files, using an FTP client is the best way to accomplish this. From cPanel in the FTP Manager, you can create FTP accounts, which allow users to access the files of your web site with an FTP client.

Here are the steps to get your new FTP account setup.

1. To access the FTP Manager, click on the icon above the words FTP Manager on the main screen of your cPanel interface.

2. Click on FTP Accounts.

3. To add an FTP account, click on Add FTP Account.

4. Enter the user name for the new FTP account in the blank field next to where it says “login:”. Next, enter the password for the new FTP account in the blank field next to where it says “password:”.

5. You want to put in the directory which the account will have access to in the blank field next to where it says “directory:”.

6. Click on where it says “create” to create the new FTP account.

Now your FTP account is setup and ready to test out. Plug it into your favorite FTP client of choice and if you followed the steps correctly you should be up and running.

Over the month of November I have been going over some basics for all of our cPanel users here at Lunarpages. This is the last in the series, and I hope you enjoyed them all!

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Author: Mitch Keeler

There are a few confusing issues with cPanel and how to get things going, and one of the most asked about cPanel features that some people have problems with is password protected folders.

You can protect directories within your site from browsers by using a password to protect them. This allows you to restrict material to only authorized users or store sensitive material online. This has the same appearance and effect as the password protection on cPanel.

You are given a login box to access the web site after you add the password protection.

To password protect a directory:

1. Click on the Password protect directories button on the home page.

2. Navigate to the directory that you want to protect. Select a folder by clicking on the folder name link, or open a folder by clicking on the folder icon.

3. Click on the tick box next to the lock icon.

4. Enter the name that you want to appear in the Protected Resource Name field. This is optional and purely for the user’s benefit.

5. Click on the Save button. Generally, you now need to add at least one authorized user to enable access to the directory. Refer to Adding an authorized user for more information.

Now your password protected directory should be good to go.

Over the month of November I am going to be going over some basics for all of our cPanel users here at Lunarpages. Each Wednesday I’ll be coming a new topic so stay tuned, and if you have any suggestions be sure to leave a comment and let us know.

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Author: Mitch Keeler

Getting going with your very own e-mail account is the first thing that many people do when they finally get that welcome e-mail in their inbox. From cPanel you have the ability to add extra e-mail accounts to your main account. You can setup as many as you have room and bandwidth to support - but let us not get ahead of ourselves.

How about we just start with creating one fresh e-mail account from cPanel?

1. To access the mail menu, click on the icon above the word mail on the main screen of your cPanel interface.

2. Click on the words “Add/Remove Accounts” to enter the Mail Account Maintenance screen.

3. Click on the words add account and then enter the name of the account, the account’s password, and the account’s quota (amount of disk space the account can use) in their respective blank fields.

4. Almost done! To finish up the job just click on the button labeled “create” to create the account.

Now you can get going with your very own you at yourowndomain.com e-mail address. Pass it to friends, family, business contacts. The options are totally left up to you.

Over the month of November I am going to be going over some basics for all of our cPanel users here at Lunarpages. Each Wednesday I’ll be coming a new topic so stay tuned, and if you have any suggestions be sure to leave a comment and let us know.

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