The purpose of this documentation is to provide as much information to you on the features of cPanel Version 11. Selecting from the “Main Topics” on the right side of this web site will bring you to the main page for that section. If needed a main page will show a table of contents with links to sub-topics contained within that section, otherwise, it will show the info you are looking for directly on the main page.

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Common Questions

Below you will find a list of common questions specific to using cPanel 11. Each set of questions is categorized for you to find what you need quickly. Each question is linked to a document for further information.

Advanced Questions

• How do I setup customized Apache Handlers?
• How do I customize my web site’s Error Pages?
• How do I create custom MIME Types?

Backups

• How do I create a backup of my web site, directory or hosting account?

Bandwidth

• How do I view how much bandwidth my web site has used today, this month, or this year?

Blogs

• How do I install B2Evolution on my web site?
• How do I install WordPress on my web site?

Bulletin Boards

• How do I install YaBB on my web site?
• How do I install phpBB on my web site?

Chat

• How do I install phpMyChat on my web site?

CMS

• How do I install E107 on my web site?
• How do I install Geeklog on my web site?
• How do I install Mambo on my web site?
• How do I install Nucleus on my web site?
• How do I install PostNuke on my web site?
• How do I install Xoops on my web site?
• How do I install phpWiki on my web site?

CronJobs

• How do I setup a CronJob?

Databases

• How do I check my MySQL database?
• How do I create a user in MySQL?
• How do I create a user in PostgreSQL?
• How do I create a MySQL database?
• How do I create a PostgreSQL database?
• How do I delete a MySQL database?
• How do I delete a PostgreSQL database?
• How do I delete a user from my MySQL database?
• How do I delete a user from my PostgreSQL database?
• How do I use phpMyAdmin?
• How do I use phpPgAdmin?
• How do I setup remote access to my MySQL databases?
• How do I repair my MySQL database?

Overview

The Branding Editor allows you to edit many different aspects of the presentation of cPanel to your users. The best method is to create a new style and then edit it. It is recommended that you follow these steps so that you have a non-edited style to fallback to just incase something goes wrong with your new style.

Official cPanel Styles

cPanel installs with some of it’s own styles by default. Editing of the “Official cPanel Styles” on the server should always be avoided. Each time you perform an update of cPanel to the newest version, your changes will be overwritten and lost. The “Official cPanel Styles” are distributed with each new version and written to your server with each update.

Available Branding Styles

Any installed styles (whether an “Official cPanel Style” or a custom style) are listed for use on the “Branding Editor” page. The default style is [root] and will always be used if no other style is chosen.

Each installed style can have a custom thumbnail shown depicting it, however if you do not supply a thumbnail or the thumbnail is missing a default thumbnail will be used instead, thus showing a thumbnail that might not look like the actual theme in question.

Style Options

Each style has several available options that can be found in the “Available Branding Styles” list. They are as follows:

• Enable or disable style – Each style can be enabled or disabled by clicking in the checkbox below the name of the style.
• Apply to My Account – This will change the current style on your account. This will also change the style used by all of the sub-accounts under your main account.
• Apply to All Accounts – This will apply the style to all accounts already created. This will not set the default style to be used in the future for new accounts. You will still need to “Set Default for New Accounts” to apply this style for accounts created in the future.
• Set Default for New Accounts – This will set this style as the default for all new accounts created from this point on into the future. It will not set the default style for accounts that have been created in the past.
• Edit this Style – Allows the editing of the style. In the case of the “Official cPanel Styles”, it will create a copy of the style for you to edit instead of letting you edit it directly.

This user manual is designed to familiarize new users with the WebHost Manager Interface; and also to provide extra knowledge for current users. This manual will focus on the tasks involved with installing, configuring, and administrating your server’s web hosting needs using WebHost Manager.

There are many terms and abbreviations in this manual that may be unfamiliar to you if you’re new to server administration and web hosting. We recommend purchasing a guide to System Administration to get familiar with how your server works and web hosting in general. You can also find information about the terms and abbreviations used in this manual by searching for them on a search engines such as Google.

To move from one section to another, use the list on the right side of your screen. Click on a section to reveal the tasks associated with that part of WebHost Manager. Click on a subsection in the table of contents for more information on that subsection and the tasks associated with that subsection.

This manual is arranged to mirror the WebHost Manager interface and therefore is not arranged by specific tasks. To search for specific tasks that you would like information about, use the search at the top left-hand part of your screen. For example, if you wish to find out how to add a “nameserver”, type “nameserver” into the search field and then click on SEARCH.

NOTE: Some Troubleshooting sections are for advanced users only. These sections may require that a SSH session is open on the server and that commands are run from the command line. We recommend only using these sections if you are comfortable with administrating your server as they may result in downtime. If you are uncertain of the cause of a problem, or are not comfortable using the commands outlined in these troubleshooting sections, please contact your web host or cPanel for support.

Overview

This option on the “Branding Editor” page when clicked on will bring you to a page that serves as two functions. It gives you the ability to create a new branding style and the ability to upload a new branding style from your hard-drive that you may have created or edited offline.

Create a New Branding Style

This option allows you to create a copy of the current default style and makes it into a new style. It is then added to and listed in the “Available Branding Styles” section on the “Branding Editor” page.

Type in the name of the new style you would like to create and click on Create. You will see a success message letting you know that you just created a new style. You will be offered the ability to jump right to editing this new style online (for more info see “Editing Branding Styles Online“) at the bottom of the page reporting the success of creating this new style.

Upload a New Branding Style

This option allows you to upload an edited style or new style from your hard-drive. Once the upload is completed, the new style can be found in the listing of “Available Branding Styles” on the “Branding Editor” page.

To upload a branding style click on Browse… and navigate to where the .tar.gz file is that you archived, select it and commit to uploading the file. You will now see the path to the file on your computer in the text area next to Browse… and the file will begin uploading once you click on Upload.

NOTE: Branding styles can contain any of the images in “Edit Header and Footer Images”, “Edit Main Page Icons”, “Edit UI”, “Edit Preview Images” and a local.css style-sheet. All of these are options you will find on the “Edit Branding Style” page when editing a style online.

Any images that are not included from those sections will appear as the default images for the style. A branding style should be a .tar.gz archive containing only images with the same names as the filenames listed in each branding editor section. Branding styles must have all files in the root of the archive. Files in subdirectories will be ignored.

Exim Maildir updated to 4.69-15:
Bug 4057: Fix zcat path for exigrep
Enable Dovecot Authentication
Install libperl.so into correct multiarch shlib directory
Update libdkim to 1.0.16
Continue build when invocation of cPanel patch scripts fail
Update sendmail binary to complain when not setgid mailnull
Updated libspf2 to 1.2.9
Updated libdomainkeys to 0.69
Removed redundant call to restartsrv in post install scriptlet

Pure-FTPd updated to 1.0.21-7:
Applied patch to allow setting cipher suite

Courier-IMAP updated to 4.4.1
Courier-Authlib updated to 0.61.0
MySQL 5 updated to 5.0.67