cPanel Crash Course

Learn how to use the cPanel getting started wizard, navigate features, configure web hosting basics, set up email accounts, adjust language settings, and access additional sections.

Learn how to access video tutorials on the cPanel panel, watch all or select lessons, and explore basic features highlighted in this introductory video of the cPanel crash course.

Change your cPanel password by entering the old password, creating a new strong password of length 10–18 with lowercase, uppercase, numbers, and symbols, and copying it before saving.

Change the cPanel style by selecting from several themes, with the default set to h-g, and apply a new look by clicking the button below.

Learn how to change the panel language, select your preferred language, and switch between English and French with a reload.

Learn to manage a cPanel email account by resetting passwords, adjusting quotas, and deleting accounts, with quick access to webmail and email client configuration.

Access your cPanel email via webmail by logging in with your full domain username, choose from three webmail apps, and send messages with attachments while learning cc and bcc.

Learn how spam filtering uses Spam Assassin to identify and auto delete spam by default score, and how to manage a spam box with blacklists and whitelists for trusted partners.

Learn to set up autoresponders in cPanel, create automatic email replies for vacation, and configure start and stop times to manage when messages are sent.

Learn to create and apply a user-level email filter in the cpanel crash course, distinguishing it from account-level filters and successfully saving a new filter for a specific user.

Learn to bulk import email accounts and forwarders in cPanel, using CSV or Excel files with headers like email, password, quota, and destination addresses, and verify imports in the panel.

Learn to enable email authentication on the cPanel dashboard by configuring DKIM and SPF records, updating DNS entries, and verifying mail server authorization.

Learn to change and add MX entries in cPanel to route mail through Google Apps, set priorities, and remove the local mail exchanger for reliable email delivery.

Learn to navigate the legacy file manager in cPanel, upload and organize files in home and public_html, adjust permissions, and edit or move files with code and text editors.

Learn to check the space usage on a cPanel account, view details for every folder and subdirectory, and use the file manager to locate large folders and free space.

Learn to manage files and folders on your web hosting with FileZilla: connect to the ftp server, create and rename directories, set read/write/execute permissions (recursively), and move files between directories.

Master file transfers between your local computer and a web hosting server using FileZilla, including uploading, downloading, drag-and-drop, and directory creation. Use this essential tool for site management and backups.

Learn to use the backup wizard in cPanel to back up and restore data, selecting full or partial backups via a step-by-step interface.

Check the latest visitors for your website in cPanel's visitor log, showing the last 300 visits per domain with IP address, browser, time, status, and request size.

Learn to use Webalizer in the cPanel panel to view website statistics, including daily usage, monthly totals, hits by status codes, top pages, entry pages, referrers, and user agents.

Learn to access and view error logs in cPanel, and search through the logs to identify issues. See that the most recent errors appear first.

Learn to use Awstats in cPanel to view domain statistics—visitors, hits, bandwidth, and page views—and navigate year, month, hour by hour, referrers, and downloads.

Learn how to deny access to your website using the IP deny manager in cpanel, blocking single IPs or cidr ranges with slash notations and testing the blocks.

Enable hotlink protection in cPanel to guard your images and videos from external sites, control which domains may access your content, and use redirects to protect bandwidth.

Generate and manage GnuPG keys, create a public-private key pair, and use the public key to encrypt messages that only the private key can decrypt, with optional expiration date.

learn how to create and manage subdomains in cPanel, including adding domains, configuring redirection, installing apps, and removing subdomains.

Learn to add parked domains in cPanel, understand they cannot share the main domain’s document root, and register domains while pointing name servers or redirects to the panel.

Learn how to set redirects in cPanel, including permanent and temporary redirects with HTTP status codes, and how to point full domains, subdomains, or folders to another destination.

Use the simple DNS zone editor to create an A record and a CNAME record, pointing domains and subdomains to an IP address or alias for services like Google Apps.

Manage DNS with the advanced zone editor, create A, CNAME, and TXT records for domain verification, and configure DKIM and SPF for email authentication, using TTL to smooth migrations.

Create a new database in cPanel, add a dedicated user, and grant appropriate privileges to connect and manage the database, with steps to review and edit permissions.

Learn how to use the cpanel mysql database wizard to create databases and users, assign privileges, and manage access with a step-by-step approach.

Explore the cPanel remote MySQL feature to grant access by whitelisting your public IP and configuring host, user, and database, connecting via CLI or GUI tools.