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Taking a backup of your website in cPanel Paper Lantern

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We all should regularly take backups of our website, whether we like it or not. A backup is like a flashlight, you never know when you may need it. You may never need it or may need it once in 365 days. But if you do need it and don’t have it, you will regret it.

1. Login to your cPanel account (For more see this article)

2. Select the Backup option in cPanel

3. Under the Partial Backups option, you can choose which parts of your website to backup.

The Home Directory option will allow you to backup all files in your account, except for the MySQL databases and the cpanel account configuration. This option will download a .tar.gz file i.e. a compressed tarball which contains the entire folder structure and files inside your hosting account.

The Database Backup will allow you to download a backup file for each individual database. The file format for the database backup is dbname.sql.gz i.e. it is a compressed file, which contains a .sql file of the database.

You can also download domain wise email forwarders, in .gz format by clicking on the Email Forwarder option.

 

Do note: If your internet connection is interrupted or there is some download issue, your downloaded file may be incomplete or corrupt. Always verify downloaded backups before relying on them.

Reset the password on an email account through cPanel

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This article explains how you can change your email address password through cPanel, with screenshots from the cPanel Paper Lantern Theme.

1. Login to cPanel with your cPanel Username and Password. The URL for cPanel is at http://your_domain_name.com/cpanel.

2. Click on the Accounts icon in the Email Section of cPanel.

 

3. To change the password for an email account select the Change Password option next to the appropriate email address you want to modify.

 

4. Enter the New Password you desire to reset to in the Password field. Then reenter the New Password again.

Note: You will need to set a Long and Complex password so that it cannot be easily guessed by hackers. You can use the Password Generator to generate a random strong password.

 

 

Click on the Change Password button after you have put in the new password.

5. You should see a confirmation message that your Password was changed. You can now logout of cPanel and use your new email password.

How to Create a Folder and Set Permissions in cPanel File Manager

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You may often want to create a folder or sub folder for your website files or may want to create an upload folder for images or media. This article explains how you can create a folder in cPanel File Manager and set the permissions of the folder so that your web application can upload images to it.

Creating a New Folder in cPanel

1. Login to cPanel by going to http://yourdomain.com/cpanel. For more details see our article on Logging into cPanel.

2. Go to the File Manager in cPanel

 

3. When you are in the File Manager, you will need to navigate to the public_html folder which contains all the files which are displayed on your website.

4. Once you are in the public_html folder, you can navigate to the folder within which you want to create a new folder / directory. In our example we are creating a folder called uploads in the path /public_html/wp-content/ so that we can upload images from our WordPress control panel. When you are in that folder (and can see the folder’s contents on the right, click on the New Folder button on the top menu.

 

5. You will be asked to provide a folder name. Give a folder name and press the Create a New Folder button.

 

 

Changing Folder / Directory Permissions in cPanel

Note: Changing permissions of directories in your public_html folder can expose your files to the public. If you are not sure about what you are doing, do NOT make any permission changes. Folders with excessive permissions or improper permissions may leave your website open to external attacks or compromise.

1. Once you have created the folder as given above, select the folder for which you want to change the permissions. Then click the Change Permissions button on the top.

 

2. You will be asked to tick the appropriate boxes to change the permissions. If you select all the boxes, you will set the folder permissions to 777. Once you have set the permissions click on the Change Permissions button.

 

3. Your folder permission has now been set, you can see the permission in the file manager, on the right side of the corresponding folder name.

Block an email address using Email Filtering in cPanel Webmail

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Are you being harassed by a specific email sender? Do you want to stop receiving mail from an email address? Do you want to filter all mails from a particular sender to the Trash Folder?

This article explains how you can block a certain email sender from sending you mail. You can filter messages and apply certain automated actions to them by using the Email Filtering option in cPanel webmail.

1. Login to your webmail, using the URL http://your_domain_name.com/webmail

You need to login with your FULL email address and email password.

 

2. In the page that comes up, select the Email Filtering option.

 

3. On the next page, click on the Create a New Filter button.

4. In the New Filter details, fill in the boxes as follows:

  • Rule Name: Give any name that you want to identify the annoying email address Eg: Stalker 1 or Annoying
  • In the Rules, select From >> Equals >> (Type in the annoying) full email @ddress
  • Under Actions select Discard Message
  • Click on the Create button to create the new Rule.

cPanel Create a New Filter

 

Instead of Discarding the Message, you can also send it to a folder in your webmail or bounce the email with a specific message (not recommended)

 

You should see the message indicating that your New Filter was saved

cPanel X Create a New Filter2

 

5. Your new filter will be visible in the Email Filtering section of Webmail (see above)

“Aliases” replaces “Parked Domains” in cPanel Paper Lantern Theme

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Are you looking for the Parked Domains option in cPanel, but can’t find it? You must be using the Paper Lantern Theme of cPanel.

In the new Paper Lantern cPanel Theme, the “Parked Domain” option has been renamed to the more appropriate “Aliases” option. The functionality remains the same.

The previous cPanel x3 Theme with the Parked Domains option v/s The new cPanel Paper Lantern Theme with the Domain Aliases option.

cPanel X3

 

cPanel Documentation on Parked Domains:

http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/CpanelDocs/ParkedDomains

cPanel Documentation on Aliases:

https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/PLD/Aliases

The cPanel username

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What is cPanel?

cPanel is a Control Panel system to control your web hosting account. It allows you to manage your space and monitor the usage.

What is my cPanel username? Where will I find it?

Your cPanel username is a unique username given to your account on the server where your website files and emails are located. It is like an administrator username with which you can manage and monitor your account.

When you purchase a web hosting account from HostingXtreme you will automatically receive your cPanel username and password by email.

What if I have forgotten my cPanel username or password? Can I retrieve them?

If you have forgotten your cPanel username and password, visit https://hostingxtreme.com and login to your client area to retrieve your password.
Retrieve your cPanel Password

Once you login to the Client Area, go to the Services menu and select the My Services option.

HostingXtreme Client Area

In the list that appears, select the hosting account for which you want to retrieve or reset the username / password and click the View Details button next to it.

Select the hosting account

To login at https://hostingxtreme.com you will need the registered email address and password that was sent to you at the time of creating your account.

Reset your HostingXtreme Client Area Password
If you do not remember your password, you can reset it through the Registered Email Address that we have on record by clicking on the Request a password reset link
If you do not remember which email address you signed up with, you will need to search your email inbox for the welcome mail, or try multiple email addresses that you own.

To see the current username / password or to set a new one, click on the Change Password tab.

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You will now be able to see the current cPanel username and Password and also reset them.

See the current cPanel username and Password

Is the cPanel username the same for accessing mails or for FTP?

  • The cPanel username is NOT the same as your webmail login. To login to webmail you need to enter your full email address ([email protected])
  • The cPanel username can be used for FTP. It is the default FTP login.

Note: Any person with your cPanel password will be able to change email passwords, access your files and do just about anything with your hosting account. Share it wisely.

To login to cPanel visit:

http://your_domain_name.com/cpanel

(replace it with your real domain name)