

WHM CPANEL INSTALL
You have installed, some of these steps might be done automatically when you install the application via Softaculous. If your site will be needing any databases, you will need to create those either in theĭepending on the type of site you want to build, and depending on which if any version of There is also aĬan be enabled, if you prefer one of those interfaces instead of ftp.


The starting directory will depend on the home directory chosen for that ftp user. If you log into ftp orĪs the cPanel user, you will start out already in /home/username, so you would need to change directories into public_html. For the main domain of a cPanel account, this will usually be /home/username/public_html (replacing "username" with the username of the cPanel user). In order to create a website in a cPanel server, you need to upload the files into the domain's DocumentRoot. But, here are some tips that will nearly always be applicable: For most of them, the "right" setting depends very heavily on what you will need to be able to do with the account. Or, we can go to the Home screen (if we aren't there already) by clicking the "WHM" in the upper left corner, then clicking the "Account Functions" button, and after that clicking the "Create a New Account" button. We could simply type "Create a New Account" into the search box, and then that will be the only page listed in the navigation menu until the search is cleared. "Home > Account Functions > Create a New Account" If you are not sure what section the page you need is in, you can use the search box above the navigation menu.įor example, the page to create a new account is You can also find any of the pages directly from any of the other pages by using the navigation menu on the left-hand side. After clicking a button for one of the sections, there is a page with a button for each of the pages within that section. From there, you can navigate to a section by clicking on the section name on one of the buttons in the main section of the Home screen. Within WHM, you can go back to the "Home" screen by clicking the "WHM" in the top left corner.
WHM CPANEL HOW TO
You can read more detail about how to create a cPanel account The first time you log into WHM, it is very likely that one of the first things you will want to do is to create a cPanel account, so that you can begin setting up the first of your websites.
WHM CPANEL PASSWORD
You can of course also open a Support Ticket if you need help resetting the root password in a VPS, but if you are able to use the password changer in your "My Knownhost" account, that is likely to be faster. If it is a Dedicated Server, and you are not sure of the password for user "root", you canĪnd we can help you reset it. If you are not sure what it is, you can reset it as described

For the password you will need to use the password for user "root". If this is the first time logging into WHM in this server, the only account that exists so far is "root", so you will need to use that as the username. But if this is the first time you are accessing WHM, it is not likely that any domains resolve to the server yet. Later, once domains exist and resolve to the server, you can begin using those domains instead of the IP addres in the url. So to access WHM the first time, you would need to use a url like this: For our example, the Primary IP Address of our hypothetical server will be "x.x.x.x"–that means you will need to replace that portion of the url with whatever the IP address of your server is. If you have a Dedicated Server, you will need to refer to your Welcome Email to find your server's IP address. If you have a VPS and are not sure of the IP address of your server, you can check it from your My Knownhost page as described The first time you access WHM, it is likely that the server'sĭoes not yet resolve to the server, so you will need to use the IP-based url to access it. To read about the different sections organized similarly to how they are organized within WHM. For more information about the options available in the WHM interface, you can use Resellers have a restricted access to WHM, but with the "root" user, you can access all of the server-level settings. WHM is the section where server-level changes are made.
