What is Indexes in cPanel? – Directory index

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A website may have a lot of directories but in some cases these directories are not arranged in a proper way. cPanel helps you to mention how directories on your website should be displayed. By default in cPanel, if there is no index file in a directory, the directory’s contents will be listed in the user’s browser. It’s highly not recommended as it’s a potential security threat.

Steps to enable index files in the cPanel directory

STEP 1: Login

Login to your cPanel account.

STEP 2: Indexes

Under the ‘Advanced’ section in cPanel, click on ‘Indexes’.

STEP 3: List of Directories

A list of directories of your site will be displayed. Click on a specific directory in which you wanted to manage indexes. You can also navigate one directory to another just by clicking on the directory name.

STEP 4: Types of Indexing

After selecting a particular directory, a list of options will be displayed. They are

Default System Indexing – This option is used to enable the default setting which was provided by the hosting service provider
No Indexing – It enables you to disable the index of the directory. If there are no index files (index.php or index.html), the directory will not be displayed
Standard Indexing – If it’s enable the directory and the name of the directory can be seen by the user when the index file is not present.
Fancy Indexing – It is similar to Standard Indexing. The user can be able to see the name and description of files of the index less directory.

STEP 5: Save Changes

Click on ‘Save’ to save the changes made to the directory.

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How to increase PHP memory limit in cPanel?

In every PHP installation, there will be a default setting. For certain situations, we have to edit that for some websites. The default memory limit for WordPress is 32MB. For most of the sites, 128MB will be more than enough unless the plugin/theme that you install demands more.

You may face an error like Fattal error: Allowed Memory Size or

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 23556632 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 3349917 bytes) in /home/xxxxx/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php on line xxx

Most of the time this error comes when you installing and activating themes or uploading images. In this case, you have to increase the memory limit for that website

There are two possible solutions through which you can increase the PHP memory limit,

1.Increase PHP Memory Limit through MultiPHP INI editor

2.Increase PHP Memory Limit through wp-config file

Steps to Increase PHP Memory Limit through MultiPHP INI editor

Step1: Login

Login to the cPanel Account of the website to which you need to increase the memory limit

Step2: Multi PHP Ini Editor

After login to cPanel, search as MultiPHP INI Editor. You will find this under the Software section.

Step3: Basic Mode

In MultiPHP Ini Editor, there will be two types of modes, Basic mode & Editor Mode. Click on Basic mode. In the ‘Configure PHP INI basic settings’ select the location which is the domain’s root document to open the corresponding PHP configuration.

Step4: PHP Directives

You can see the list of PHP Directives. In the ‘memory_limit’ directive, enter the maximum limit that your site needs.

Note: The memory limit should be greater than post_max_size and post_max_size should be greater than upload_max_filesize. Also, increase only to limit it requires as providing a higher limit may lead to security concerns.

Finally, click Apply to save the changes.

Steps to Increase PHP Memory Limit through wp-config

Step1: Login

Login to the cPanel Account of the website to which you need to increase the memory limit

Step2: File Manager

Search as File Manager and click on it.

Step3: Navigate to public_html

After entering into file manager, navigate to public_html

Step4: wp-config file

In public_html, you can fine wp-config file. Right click on it and edit the wp-config file.

Find the line “/* That’s all, stop editing! Happy publishing. */”

Add this line define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’); above those line.

Finally, click on Save Changes

Also, Learn about increasing the Upload Limit Size here through MultiPHP INI Editor in cPanel.

How To Create Custom Error Pages Using cPanel?

The error pages occur in the website naturally due to some issues in the internal part of the website or also may be due to inappropriate installations of plugins & themes. Other than this, the user can also create error pages manually. If the site is down or you want to make the changes, then this feature must be very useful.

In this article, we have guided you on how to create custom error pages using cPanel.

Create Custom Error Pages Using cPanel:

STEP 1: Login

Login to your cPanel account.

STEP 2: Error Pages

Under the ‘Advanced’ section, tap on the option ‘Error pages’

STEP 3: Selecting Domain

Select a domain under the ‘Select Domain to Manage Error Pages’ section to create custom error pages.

STEP 4: Selecting Error Code

Click on any common error codes under the section ‘Edit Error pages’ to display it when any visitors access your websites.

STEP 5: Editing Error Pages

Click on any common error code. For example, here we have clicked on 403 (Forbidden Error). It brings you to another page to edit and insert the error code at any place in the html code of your website. Other than common error codes, you can also any HTTP error codes under ‘Show All HTTP Error Status Codes’.

STEP 6: Save

After insertion, scroll down and click on ‘Save’. Thus the changes are saved and the visitors will see the error pages when your website is accessed.

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How To Take Full Backup In cPanel?

Taking backups of your website is a much necessary thing. The purpose of taking full backup is that once any malicious or unfortunate things have happened, you will lose the site including data and other files entirely. The advantage of taking backups is that you can restore your data and files on your website and able to bring the site back to live, even though when the site is deleted or hacked.

You can take backups on a weekly or monthly basis depending on the users and website content but it is very much important.

NOTE: This method of taking full backup is a backup of a complete cPanel account with whole data, where it can only be restored by hosting providers.

In this article, we have guided you on “how to take full backups of your website by using cPanel” which can be done easily by users.

Process to Take Full Backup in cPanel:

STEP 1: Login

Firstly, log in to your cPanel for the website with the provided cPanel details.

STEP 2: Backup Wizard

Under the ‘Files’ section, click on the ‘Backup Wizard’ option.

STEP 3: Backup

To take a full backup of your website, click on the ‘Backup’ option. To restore the data for your website, click on ‘Restore’.

STEP 4: Full Backup

Click on ‘Full Backup’ to download your full website files under a compressed folder. You can also even take partial backup such as

Home Directory
MySQL Databases
Email forwarding & Filters

Click on the required file in which you wanted to take backup.

STEP 5: Generate Backup

To start generating a backup, click on ‘Generate Backup’. Also, you can choose the destination, in which you want to download the full backup.

After clicking on ‘Generate Backup’, you will be notified through the email id mentioned as the backups will be available for download. Go back and if you click on the link, the full backup of your website will be downloaded.

This generated backup will be stored in the file manager which you can use it for future restoration.

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How to Solve WordPress Issues Through cPanel?

Most of the users face problems in WordPress due to some errors. Every user thinks that the error may occur in WordPress software itself. Even though the problems are occurring in WordPress, the main source for these kinds of situations can also be happened by cPanel. The users are not aware of the necessary tools in cPanel. The great thing is that you can also solve it by using cPanel. In this article, we have guided you on how to handle the common WordPress problems through cPanel.

Below, we have listed the common problems occurring in WordPress.

Problems When Uploading Media Files

Every user uploads the media files in their site such as Images, Videos, Gifs, etc., But the users are not aware of the size of the media files. For example, consider you have already added media files to your site. Now, you are trying to upload some images or videos which is of huge size. At this point in time, the user faces an issue i.e, the media files are not able to upload. This is occurred because of the memory limit.

For every website, there will be a memory limit by default. If you face this kind of issue you can simply solve it through cPanel. Yes, in cPanel you can find a tool called ‘Multi PHP ini Editor’ which is available under the software section of the cPanel.

By using this tool, you have to increase the file upload limit size. Once you have increased the limit and saved the changes, you can easily upload the media files in WordPress.

Bandwidth Usage

Bandwidth is the most important factor for each and every website. Also, it is a precious thing for both the user and the website. If you have a lot of traffic to your site, then the bandwidth of your site must be reached. Hence, you have to know the importance of bandwidth which is necessary.

You can also reduce uploading the media files, which is a better way for most of the sites. In order to find who is consuming the bandwidth of your site, you can make use of the tool in cPanel. Webalizer is a tool, which is used to show the data traffic of a site. By using this site, you can analyze it in many ways. At times, bots will be the major reason for consuming the bandwidth.

PHP Versions

Sometimes, your WordPress might get some issues while installing plugins or themes, etc., for your site. The user may have updated all the plugins and themes etc., in WordPress. But the most important is the PHP Version. The user may not aware of the PHP versions. To update the PHP version for your sites, simply click on ‘Select PHP Version’ under the Software section of the cPanel.

There you can update the PHP versions for your site or you update according to the needs.

Internal Server Error

The common error is faced by most of the users. This happens when some changes occur in the .htaccess file. If you have made some changes to the .htaccess files, you can face this kind of issue. If not, you can face due to the plugins or theme malfunctions.

These are the common WordPress problems that can be handled through cPanel.

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How To Use Spam Filters In cPanel?

Email is one of the efficient ways to communicate with others. Also, emails are very much necessary for business communications. We are using the emails in our daily routine work. We have to keep the emails more secure and safe from the spams, hackers, etc., If any spam emails received when the users open it, the personal data and other valuable information of the business, etc., will be lost.

In order to avoid these circumstances, you can use ‘Spam Filters’ which is available default in the cPanel. In this article, we have guided you on how to use spam filters in cPanel.

What is Spam Filters?

Spam Filters is an option that is used to identify unsolicited bulk mails, commonly know as Spams and it is sent separately to the spam box by filtering from the normal mail.

STEP 1: Enabling Spam Filter

Enable the Apache Spam Assassin. By enabling it, the suspicious emails are filtered from the email and marked as Spam.

STEP 2: Spam Threshold Score

You can also set a score for the spams. Click on ‘Spam Threshold Score‘ which is available under the enabling of spam filter. The Spam Threshold Score is calculated based on the level of spam. When the user’s allocated score is less than the spam score, then the email is considered spam. For normal users, you can use the default setting of 5. For ISP’s, it is recommended to set the score to 8 and click on ‘Update Scoring Options’ to update it.

STEP 3: Auto-Delete Spam

The user also has permission to delete the spam emails which are received. The spam emails are deleted permanently only when the calculated spam score is greater than the Auto-Delete Threshold score.

There are some advanced configurations available in the spam filters. They are

STEP 4: Whitelisting mails

Whitelisting the spam mails, allows the mail to start receiving to your email account. Click on ‘Edit Spam Whitelist Settings’ to whitelist the emails.

STEP 5: Blacklisting mails

You can permanently stop receiving emails by enabling the ‘Blacklisting’ by clicking on ‘Edit Spam Blacklist Settings’.

STEP 6: Total Spam score

Calculated spam score shows the spam score of the spam emails which are received to your account.

These are the possible ways available default in cPanel to protect your websites and other valuable information.

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What is Email Track Delivery In cPanel?

We send and receive emails in the daily routine of our life. Sometimes, an email hasn’t reached to the destination which we have sent. These are the common issues faced by a lot of people. There is a way of tracking your emails and also you can know the reason for the issues. Track Delivery is a tool that is used to track the email which you sent and enables the user to identify the problem, during the failure of email transfer.

Email Track Delivery tool in cPanel

STEP 1: Login

Log in to your cPanel account.

STEP 2: Track Delivery

Under ‘Email’ sections, click on ‘Track Delivery’.

STEP 3: Recipient Email

In the ‘Recipient Email’ box, you can enter the email address of a single recipient and click on ‘Run Report’. You can get the report based on the filters such as

Show Success – It shows the lists of emails, which are successfully reached to the end-user

Show Deferred – It shows you the lists of emails which are sent with a warning

Show Failures – The emails which are not reached shown under this filter. Also, it shows the reason for the failure of email.

Show In-Progress – The emails which are transmitting from the source user.

You can also click on ‘Show All’ to view all the email results.

STEP 4: Delivery Email Report

The table which is displayed shows detailed information about the emails. The four major columns in the table are

In the Event column, it shows whether the email is successfully sent or not.

The Spam Score is also available for the email which is calculated by ‘Apache SpamAssassin’.

Result column informs the user, whether the mail has reached the destination and also the error occurs while transmitting email.

For more information, you can simply click on the ‘Information Icon’ under the ‘Actions’ to view more information about the email delivery report.

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What Is Webalizer In cPanel and How to Use it?

Webalizer is used to view the stats of the website traffic and it’s visitors, who are visiting your websites. It produces the stats on different varieties which can be easily identified by the users. The stat information is displayed in the form of graphs, charts, etc., Also, you can analyse the bandwidth usage by viewing the visitor’s information.

The Webalizer gives you the information based on visits, pages, files, hits, etc.,

In this article, we will guide you how to view the statistical information of your site.

Process for Webalizer In cPanel

STEP 1: Login

Log in to the cPanel account of your website.

STEP 2: Webalizer

Click on the ‘Webalizer’ option which is available under the ‘Metrics’ section.

STEP 3: Viewing Statistics

You will have two option in this page – SSL and Non-SSL. In order to analyse bandwidth or website traffic, you need to check both. But you should try to update all of your website files which has http in the code to https and make sure the website is installed and loading with SSL.

Here, click ‘View‘ on the line which has ‘SSL’ near the website name.

STEP 4: Detailed Statistic Reports

You can see the overall statistical reports summary of the website with bytes and number of visitors.

Click on any month to see the complete statistical reports of the website, which will be displayed depending on that month visitors.

Useful Resources:

What is Bandwidth in Web Hosting

Difference In Server Bandwidth and Network Bandwidth

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How to do Hotlink Protection in cPanel?

Hotlink Protection is the simplest way to protect your sites from the other sites. In other words, it helps you to prevent the linking of sites directly to the images and other files on your website.

For example, If I have owned a site and the stranger likes the image and description, then used the URL of the image in their site. When some visitors visit the stranger’s site, the image on my site gets downloaded every time. Thus, there is a huge loss of bandwidth on my site. This is called Hotlink.

To safeguard your site and also to reduce the usage of bandwidth, cPanel provides a tool called ‘Hotlink Protection’.

In this article, we have guided you on how to use the hotlink protection in cPanel.

Enabling Hotlink Protection in cPanel

STEP 1: Login

Login to cPanel of your domain

STEP 2: Hotlink Protection

Navigate to the ‘Security’ section, and click on ‘Hotlink Protection’ under the security section.

STEP 3: Enabling protection

Click ‘Enable’. Now, you have enabled the Hotlink protection for your site.

STEP 4: Allowing URL to access

Under ‘URL’s allow to access domain’. Enter the list of URL’s that can access your site.

STEP 5: File Extensions

In the ‘Block Direct Access’ box, enter the list of file extensions that you wanted to block direct access.

STEP 6: Direct Requests

After entering the file extensions, click on the checkbox ‘Allow Direct Requests’.

STEP 7: Redirecting request

Another feature in hotlink protection is, you can also Redirect request to the Url in the text box. Users whose sites are blocked will see the page instead of the hotlink file. After that, click on ‘Submit’.

Now, you have successfully enabled the Hotlink Protection. Now, let us see how to disable hotlink protection.

Disabling Hotlink Protection

STEP 1: Hotlink Protection

Under the security section of cPanel, click on Hotlink Protection.

STEP 2: Disable

Click ‘Disable’.

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How To Create A Website Via cPanel’s Site Publisher?

Site Publisher is one of the most useful tools for many of the users, which enables you to quickly create a simple website even if you have never created before. This ‘Site Publisher’ tool provides templates to choose from and then simply add the appropriate information to it. In this article, we will guide you on how to create a site using Site Publisher.

STEP 1: Login

Login to your cPanel account.

STEP 2: Site Publisher Tool

The Site Publisher tool is available under the ‘Domains’ section.

STEP 3: Choosing the domain

After clicking the tool, you have to choose the domain the publisher should use.

STEP 4: Templates

Once selected, it will show you the list of templates that you can choose.

STEP 5: Publishing

After choosing a particular template, you have to fill some details such as Title, Description, etc., After all, click on ‘Publish’.

Now you’ve successfully created a temporary website to inform your visitors about what you wish.

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