This document describes how to quickly publish a website on a newly-provisioned cPanel & WHM server.
This section describes the minimum necessary configuration for a server to host a website.
To log in to WHM, perform the following steps:
1. Navigate to the following URL, where IPADDRESS represents your server’s IP address:
https://IPADDRESS:2087/
2. Enter the root username and password.
3. Click Log in.
4. Agree to our software license terms. A new interface will appear.
5. Enter your email address in the Email Address text box.
6. Enter your default nameservers in the Nameservers text boxes. Your hosting provider or networking provider should provide these.
7. Click Finish. The WHM Home interface will appear.
Your server’s hostname uniquely identifies it on the Internet. Most hosting providers will configure your server’s hostname as part of the provisioning process. However, you may need to perform these steps manually:
1. Navigate to WHM’s Change Hostname interface (WHM >> Home >> Networking Setup >> Change Hostname).
2. If you wish to change the hostname, enter a new hostname in the text box.
3. Click Change. A confirmation message will appear.
4. Click Add an A entry for your hostname. A new interface will appear that displays the main IP address of the server.
5. Navigate to WHM’s Install cPAddons Site Software interface (WHM >> Home >> cPanel >> Install cPAddons Site Software).Click Add Entry. A confirmation message will appear.
Warning:After you change the server’s hostname, your browser may display a warning about a change to the server’s SSL certificate.
Your server’s DNS resolvers allow your server to look up the IP addresses of other sites on the Internet. Most hosting providers will configure your server’s resolvers as part of the provisioning process.
However, you may need to perform this step manually.
To configure DNS resolvers on your server, perform the following steps:
1. Navigate to WHM’s Resolver Configuration interface (WHM >> Home >> Networking Setup >> Resolver Configuration).
2. Click Proceed. A new interface will appear.
3. Enter the desired IPv4 or IPv6 addresses in the Primary Resolver and Secondary Resolver text boxes.
Note: If your hosting provider did not give you this information, you can use Google’s® nameservers (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4).
4. To configure a third resolver, enter that IP address in the Tertiary Resolver text box.
5. Click Continue. A confirmation message will appear.
If you plan to use WordPress® to create your website, perform the following steps:
1. Navigate to WHM’s Install cPAddons Site Software interface (WHM >> Home >> cPanel >> Install cPAddons Site Software).
2. Select the checkbox next to the WordPress addon.
3. Click Update cPAddon Config. A confirmation message will appear.
To create the cPanel account, perform the following steps:
1. Navigate to WHM’s Create a New Account interface (WHM >> Home >> Account Functions >> Create a New Account).
2. Enter a domain name in the appropriate text box. The interface will suggest a username.
3. Enter a password and confirm it. The Password Generator feature can generate a strong password for you.
4. Enter a contact email address for the account.
5. Click Create. A confirmation message will appear.
This section describes the minimum necessary configuration for an account to host a website.
To quickly log in to your new site’s cPanel account, click Go to cPanel.
Note:
If you plan to use another mail provider for your site, you can skip this section.
To create an email account for your site, perform the following steps:
1. Navigate to cPanel’s Email Accounts interface (cPanel >> Home >> Email >> Email Accounts).
2. Click Create.
3. Enter a username in the appropriate text box.
4. Set a password in the appropriate text box.
5. Enter the storage space for the account in the appropriate text box.
6. Click Create.
This section describes how to publish a website on your account.
Perform the steps for the publishing method that you plan to use:
If you plan to run a WordPress site, perform the following steps:
1. Navigate to cPanel’s WordPress Manager interface (cPanel >> Home >> Applications >> WordPress Manager). The WordPress Manager interface will appear.
2. Click New Site.
3. Enter the domain on which to install the site. Or you can install it on a subdomain (for example, blog.example.com).
4. Click Install. The interface will display a success message with the username and password for WordPress.
5. Navigate to your domain. The WordPress default page will appear.
6. Click the Log In link.
7. Enter the username and password.
Now you can start setting up your WordPress site.
If you plan to upload your own site content, you should display a placeholder while you build your site.
To set up a placeholder for your account, perform the following steps:
1. Navigate to cPanel’s Site Publisher interface (cPanel >> Home >> Domains >> Site Publisher).
2. Select the domain.
3. Select a site template.
4. Enter the site information.
Click Publish.
To securely upload your own content to the website, perform the following steps:
1. Navigate to cPanel’s Web Disk interface (cPanel >> Home >> Files >> Web Disk).
2. If you run Microsoft Windows® Vista, 7, 8, or 10, perform the following additional steps to enable Digest Authentication:
– Click Enable Digest Authentication. A new window will appear.
– Enter your cPanel account’s password.
– Click OK.
3. Click Configure Client Access next to the default account.
4. Select your operating system.
5. Install the software.
6. Connect to your Web Disk account. It will now appear on your workstation as another drive.
7. You can drag and drop content to your server as needed.
You can use the following interfaces to upload your content:
– cPanel’s Git Version Control interface (cPanel >> Home >> Files >> Git Version Control)
– cPanel’s File Manager interface (cPanel >> Home >> Files >> File Manager)
– cPanel’s FTP Accounts interface (cPanel >> Home >> Files >> File Manager)
You’re done! Congratulations, you have applied your website to WHM and cPanel.
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