cPanel Hosting Stuff

FTP timeout settings varies from host to host.

TimeOut Settings are as follows.

Timeout Idle - 900 seconds.
Timeout No transfer - 900 seconds

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If your server down , Email senders mail server will continue to deliver emails to your domain. Senders will get message if it can’t deliver in predefined time schedules (1-4 hrs ).

Anyway senders email server will continue to retry till it delivers to your domain or it reaches maximum develivery schedule ( 4- 6 days ). After 4-6 days the email server gives up and noitfies sender about non-deliverable email.

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You can access your email account through webmail just like yahoo and hotmail accounts.

You need to point your browser to:
http://www.yourdomain.com/webmail
or
http://www.yourdomain.com:2095/

After getting login screen you need to enter complete email address in username field and password.

You can choose your webmail interface NEOMAIL and HORDE.

FREEDOM to Choose

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To redirect catch-all account mails to other mail account -

1) Login to cpanel and click on mail manager icon ( XSKIN Theme )

2) Click on “Change Default Address”

3) Click on “Set Default Adress”
By default, all unrouted mails go to the main inbox for every cpanel account.

4) Enter Full email address test@yourdomain.com instead of just “test”

If you put just username “test” mail server tries to deliver all mails to cpanel user name “test”. So somebody with “test” user name will get your emails sad.gif

TIP: You can enter :blackhole: to discard all incoming unrouted Emails or :fail: to bounce all emails to it.

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This e-mail address, with the username the same as your hosting account, is also known as the “catch-all” e-mail address.

In other words, if you have no e-mail accounts setup, this will catch every e-mail sent to anything@yourdomain.com for your retrieval. This will still work even when other accounts are created, which is especially useful if people incorrectly spell the first half of the e-mail address wrong, since you will still get that sometimes-important e-mail.

This is the one e-mail account that is setup with your e-mail software with the username only (all other accounts use username@domain.com as the username in their mail software.)

This is also the only webmail account that you have “instant” access to within your control panel without having to login first.

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After creating email account on the server. Now you will need to setup and configure your Outlook Express as follows -

1) Open Outlook Express Progarm and click on “Tools” Menu

2) Choose “Accounts”

3) Click on Add and select “Email… ” option

4) Then Enter your Account Display name “Your Name”

5) Then Enter Email Address

6) then Enter your POP and SMTP mail servers addresses.
POP Server : mail.yourdomain.com
SMTP Server: mail.yourdomain.com

7) Then add your username and password. Remember, your username is your full email address - test@yourdomain.com

Then Click Finish

After you create your email account hit the “properties” for that email account and click on “SERVER” tab and enable or check “My server requires authentication”. Other wise you will not be able to send emails properly.

Your email is now setup. Send some test emails to some other email accounts of yours. Also test that you can receive emails to your new email account.

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To setup new accounts -

1) Login to your control panel at http://yourdomain.com/cpanel

2) Choose “Add / Remove Accounts” ( default skin ) or Choose “Mail Manager” icon incase of Xskin then click on “Add / Remove Accounts”

NOTE:Graphic Interface and options varies from control panel theme to theme but basic functionaly is same.

3) Choose “Add Account”

4) Enter Email user name, Password and required Quotas in respective fields.

5) Hit Create Button

Then you can see conformation message “Account Created the e-mail account test@domain.com with the login test+domain.com and password test with a quota of 10 megs was successfully created.”

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To access your site Control Panel -

You can access your control panel at:
- Regular http://www.yourdomain.com:2082 and http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel
or
- Server http://yourserveripadderss/cpanel/
- Secure SSL https://www.yourdomain.com:2083

SSL logins are highly recommended for security. smile.gif

Note: If using http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel/
(This will not be active until your domain DNS has been pointing corrected to cpanel server.)

You will be asked to enter your user / pass to gain access to your control panel.
Make sure that you are using the right Username and Password when the Password box appears on the screen. Your Username and Password is CASE SENSITIVE, so make sure to be exact here.

The control panel is pretty much self explanatory however a little information on the usage of each section is included below if you get confused along the way

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WHM PACKAGE EDIT:

You can alter all aspects of a package whenever you need to change the package. These changes will effect accounts only after doing upgrade/downgrade to older accounts,however it will effect new accounts using this package.

TO EDIT PACKAGE :

1) Click on the Edit Packages link in the Packages menu.

2) Click on the required package and click on the Edit button.

3) Alter the fields as required.

4) Click on the Edit button when you have finished editing the package.

Now you will confirmation message Editted the package USERNAME_PKGNAME

Now you are successfully editted package rolleyes.gif

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WHM PACKAGE DELETE:

You can always Delete packages that are no longer necessary.

TO DELETE PACKAGE :

IMPORTANT: If there are any domains associated with this package.Deleting package will cause problems.Hence always delete assoicated domains or upgrade/downgrade domains to another package.Once this precaution is taken care you can delete package.

1) Click on the Delete Packages link in the Packages menu.

2) Click on the package that you want to delete and click on the kill button.

Now you will get status message Removed Package USRNAME_PKGNAME

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What is package ?

Packages enables you to create your own custom web hosting packages/plans and are a critical function in WebHost Manager.
Web Host Manager (WHM) helps you in this process by allowing you to customize a large number of parameters, from disk space and bandwidth to the number of sub-domains and MySQL databases, as well as specifying whether CGI, shell access, and what CPanel default theme are provided.

Step-by-step procedure to create hosting packages in WHM reseller panel.

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IMPORTANT NOTE: do not put “unlimited” text in any fields while creating package as WHM takes “Unlimited” = 1. you can assign some number 99 or 999 or 9999 instead of “unlimited”. Enter “0″ (zero) when you do not want to allow that particluar feature.
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To add a package:

1) Click on the Add New Package link in the Packages menu.

2) Enter the name of the package and the maximum disk space the account can occupy in the Package Name and Quota fields.

3) Indicate whether Shell Access is allowed in the Shell Access tick box.

4) Enter the maximum number of items allowed in the Max Ftp Accounts, Max Email Accounts, Max Email Lists, Max SQL Databases, Max Sub Domains, Max Park Domains, and Max Addon Domains fields.
See above IMPORTANT information.

5) Never tick IP tick Box.

6) Indicate whether CGI access and Frontpage Extensions are allowed in the CGI Access and Frontpage Extentions tick boxes.

7) Enter the maximum bandwidth in megabytes allowed by the account in the Bandwidth Limit field.

Select default CPanel theme for the package in the Cpanel Theme
field.

9) Click on create button on top.

10) You can see status “Created the package yourusername_packagename”. WHM creates packages by adding your user name as prefix to package name.

Now you can start creating domains using this package.

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