How to use webmail from within cPanel

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to cPanel, and are starting on the home screen.

Now let’s learn how to use webmail to access our email from within cPanel.

Click the Email Accounts icon.

To access webmail for the main account, you would use this link… but we’re not going to do this because we want to access webmail for a specific account.

Instead, click the More drop down box for the email account you wish to access.

Then click Access Webmail.

This is the Horde webmail main screen, where we can check our inbox…

… and compose a New Message.

We’re not going to get into the specifics of using Horde’s webmail… just know that this is how you access and manage your emails from within cPanel.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to access your webmail from within cPanel.

How to add a record with the DNS Zone Editor in cPanel

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to cPanel, and are starting on the home screen.

Now let’s learn how to add an A record with the DNS Zone Editor.

Click the Simple Zone Editor icon.

Select the domain you want to edit.

Then enter the A Record, followed by the IP address you want it to point to.

Click Add a Record.

That’s it! We’ve successfully added an A Record to our domain.

Which is also where you can click to delete the record when it’s no longer needed.

You can see the new record listed here at the bottom…

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to add and remove records with the DNS Zone Editor.

How to add an MX entry in cPanel

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to cPanel, and are starting on the home screen.

Now let’s learn how to add an MX entry.

Click the MX Entry icon.

Setting a custom MX entry is useful if you want your email handled by another server, or if you want to setup a backup email server.

Enter a priority number for the new MX record: the lower priority numbers will be tried first, followed by higher numbers.

Then enter the new MX entry.

Click Add New Record.

That’s it! The new MX record has been added.

So in this case, the default mybiz1234.com mail server will be tried first because it has a priority of 0…

… followed by the new email server mx1.myexchange.com, because its priority number is 1.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to add an MX entry in cPanel.

How to backup your website in cPanel

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to cPanel, and are starting on the home screen.

Now let’s learn how to backup our website.

Click the Backup Wizard icon.

This is the main backup screen where you can backup, or restore the files in your hosting account.

To backup your website, click the Backup button.

You have the option of only backing up part of your account…

… or generating a full backup, which we’ll do now. Click the Full Backup button.

Select the destination, then click Generate Backup.

That’s it! We’ve just created a full backup to the home directory.

To download a copy of the backup to your computer, simply click it’s link.

That’s all there is to it!

Restoring files is just as easy. Click the Backup Wizard icon again.

Then click the Restore button.

Choose what type of restore you want to do… in this case, let’s restore the Home Directory.

Locate the Home Directory backup…

Then click Upload.

The files have been restored!

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to create a backup in cPanel, and restore files from a backup.

How to change the primary language in cPanel

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to cPanel, and are starting on the home screen.

Now let’s learn how to change the primary language.

Click the Change Language icon.

Select the new desired language, then click Change.

That’s it! The language has been changed.

Now when you navigate through cPanel, you’ll notice that the language used has been translated to the newly selected language.

To change back, simply repeat the process.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to change the primary language in cPanel.

How to change your cPanel password

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to cPanel, and are starting on the home screen.

Now let’s learn how to change the cPanel password.

First enter your old, or existing password.

Click the Change Password link.

Then enter and confirm a new password.

Click Change your password now.

That’s it! The cPanel password has been changed.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to change your cPanel password.

How to change your cPanel style

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to cPanel, and are starting on the home screen.

Now let’s learn how to change cPanel’s style.

Click the Change Style icon.

Changing your control panel style does not change any functionality, only the way it looks.

That’s it! As you can see, the look of our control panel has changed.

To change it back, simply repeat the process.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to change the style of your cPanel control panel.

How to create a domain alias in cPanel

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to cPanel, and are starting on the home screen.

Now let’s learn how to create a domain alias.

Click the Aliases icon.

A domain alias is useful when you have additional domain names that you want people to be able to use to get to your website.

Enter the new domain, then click Add Domain.

That’s it! Now when someone browses to mybiz123.info, they’ll automatically be redirected to mybiz1234.com.

Be sure to set your domain alias’s DNS settings to the same as your main domain, so the redirection will work properly.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to create a domain alias from cPanel.

How to create a MySQL database in cPanel

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to cPanel, and are starting on the home screen.

Now let’s learn how to create a MySQL database.

Click the MySQL Database Wizard icon.

Enter a name for the new database, then click Next Step.

Now we have to create a user for this database. Enter a username and create a password, then click Create User.

Click the All Privileges check box, then click Next Step.

That’s it! My MySQL database has been created, and the new user added to the database. The database name, username and password will all be needed for scripts that need to connect to the database.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to create and setup MySQL databases.