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.
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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.
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 any specific URL entering in the text box. When user try to access embedded file in another website, it will be redirect to this URL Now Click on ‘Submit’.
Now, you have successfully enabled the Hotlink Protection. Now, let us see how to disable hotlink protection.
How to Disable Hotlink Protection
Step 1: Under the security section of cPanel, click on Hotlink Protection.
Step 2: Click ‘Disable’.
Hope the information in the article helps you protect your files from being used in any of other websites.
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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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What Is phpMyAdmin In cPanel?
What is phpMyAdmin?
phpMyAdmin is a third-party tool in cPanel which is generally used to manage tables and data inside a database. It acts as an interface to manage MySQL databases. phpMyAdmin is a raw view of the data, tables, and fields which are stored in MySQL database accessible through it.
What is phpMyAdmin good for?
It is a user-friendly program for performing maintenance operations on tables, backing up information and also can edit things directly in the event that WordPress is not working. Many of the tasks can be performed on the MySQL command line, doing so is not an option for many people.
Features of phpMyAdmin:
It has a user-friendly web interface
Supports most of the MySQL features. Such as
Browse and drop databases, tables, views, fields, and indexes.
Create, crop, drop, rename and alter databases, tables, fields, and indexes
Manage MySQL user accounts and their privileges.
And more on.
How to get and access phpmyadmin?
Most of the hosting companies providing control panels such as cPanel and Plesk has phpMyAdmin preinstalled. It is usually linked to the database page. You can also download phpMyAdmin by yourself and install it from the main phpMyAdmin.
To access it, click on the phpMyAdmin link which is available under the section Databases.
There you can see the dashboard page of the phpMyAdmin.
On the left-hand side, you can see the list of databases by expanding it to see the table in each database. On the right side, it displays the general information of the Database server.
phpMyAdmin allows the user to interact with the database directly. At times, it makes you mess with the database directly. The major thing is, the options such as ‘Undo’ or ‘Undelete’ are not present in your database. So, we suggest you to be cautious when working with the database.
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How to Optimize Website Using cPanel?
The “optimize website” feature in cPanel allows the user to make gzip compressions. Gzip compressions are supported by most of the browsers. For gzip compressions the Apache mod_deflate is very much needed to function and it will be available in most of the Linux servers. It saves the bandwidth which is a big advantage for most of the users and enables the site to load faster. It can compress all types of files.
Enabling gzip compression:
STEP 1: Opening the interface
Open the Optimize website interface by clicking on the link which is under the ‘Software’ section.
STEP 2: Compressing types
In “optimizewebsite“, you can Compress the Content.
In the given options, you can choose any one of the following.
Disable – It is used to disable the gzip compression.
Compress All Content – Used to enable gzip compression for all content in your website.
Compress the specified MIME types – It provides the types of MIME(Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) in the text box. MIME are similar to the file types. It has both the file type and file format information separated with a slash.
Example: text/css, image/png, image/jpeg etc.,
STEP 3: Updating the settings
Click on ‘UpdateSettings’ to update it.
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How to Use Website Virus Scanner in cPanel?
A virus scanner is the most important feature in the application side and also even for websites, servers, etc., cPanel with a virus scanner is a huge advantage for the hosting users. This helps the hosting users to safeguard their files, folders, etc., from harmful threats. The user can also scan the different sectors of the home directory by using the antivirus.
Scan Account with Virus Scanner in cPanel
STEP 1: Opening the Virus Scanner
Type ‘Virus Scanner’ in the search box and click on it.
STEP 2: Scan Now
Choose the type of scan from the given options for scanning. Click ‘Scannow’.
Scan Entire Home Directory – This option helps you to scan the entire cPanel. If you choose this option, you don’t need to scan on other options.
Scan Mail – It scans your emails for viruses.
Scan Public FTP Space – It scans the public_ftp folder.
Scan Public Web Space – It scans the public_html folder, where all the end files reside.
STEP 3: Completion of Virus Scan
After scanning, it notifies that the ‘Virus Scan is complete’ and ‘No Viruses found’. If there is a presence of malware, it displays the files which are infected.
STEP 4: Process Cleanup
You can remove the malware by checking the buttons under the option ‘Destroy’ and click on ‘ProcessCleanup’. Now, the malware from your cPanel is totally removed.
How to do Password Protection for Directory in cPanel?
We know that there are various features are available in cPanel. In this article, we are going to know a feature called ‘Directory Protection’ in cPanel. This directory protection feature allows the user to protect the directory with a username and password. Below mentioned are the steps to create password protection for the directory in cPanel.
Configure Password for Directory in cPanel:
STEP 1: Directory Privacy
Type ‘DirectoryPrivacy’ in the search box and click on it.
STEP 2: Navigating Through Directories
Open the directory privacy configuration and navigate through the directories in which you want to protect. You can simply click on the ‘icon’ to open the directory folder. Click on the name to select the ‘folder’.
STEP 3: Edit the Directory
Click “Edit” action near the directory which you want to protect to configure the password for the directory.
STEP 4: Password Protection for Directory
click the checkbox ‘Password protect for this directory’ and enter a name for the protected directory. Click ‘Save’
STEP 5: User Creation for Directory
Under ‘Create User’ menu, enter the username and password to create a new user, click ‘Save‘.
STEP 6: Authorized Users
To see the added users, you can see the username under the section “AuthorizedUsers“. You can also create more than one user here.
How To Increase Upload Limit Size (WordPress)? – cPanel
You can upload any type of files in your site such as images, video, themes, gifs, etc., These files can be uploaded only when you have enough file upload size limit. If you have less size limit, then you are not able to upload the files in the site. This is a major issue faced by most of the WordPress and other CMS users. This can be easily solved through cPanel of your domain. In this article, you will know how to increase file upload size limit through cPanel MultiPHP Ini Editor.
Errors You Might Face When Because of File Upload Size Limit:
The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini
413 Error: Request Entity Too Large, Link you followed has expired
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 12345 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2345 bytes) in /home/your-username/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 1000
Exceeds the maximum upload size for this site
Unable to create a directory and broken images in the Media Library
Steps in increasing the file upload size limit through cPanel.
STEP 1: Login
Log In to cPanel
STEP 2: MultiPHP INI Editor
Search ‘MultiPHPINIEditor’ and click on it.
STEP 3: Basic Mode
There you can see two types of mode available. Click on ‘Basic Mode’ and choose the location which is domain’s root document to edit their PHP configuration.
STEP 4: Increase post_max_size and upload_max_filesize
By default the PHP directive values will be updated to minimum value required for a website to function the task. If you couldn’t see files (php.ini and user.ini) created in your public_html directory, then just click “apply” to create one to make it execute.
1. If you want to increase the values in upload_max_filesize, just update the value in the setting box.
2. Then in the “post_max_sizedirective“, enter the value larger than the ‘upload_max_filesize’.
For example, if your upload file size is 100M, then “upload_max_filesize” value should be 100M and “post_max_size” directive has to be “101M”
3. Make sure the PHP memory limit is higher than the post_max_size and upload_max_filesize.
STEP 7: Save Changes
Click on ‘Apply’. The settings will be saved.
Thus, these are the steps involved in increasing file upload size limit through cPanel.
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Step By Step Guide to Create Addon domain in cPanel
Instead of managing websites under different server or cPanel, you can now manage them under single cPanel account by create addon domain in cPanel. Once you add an addon domain, you can manage both main domain and addon domain in cPanel while using the same resources allocated.
Let’s guide you with step by step to create addon domain in cpanel.
What is Addon domain?
Addon domain is a separate domain hosted under your primary domain. Addon domains have the full functionality as like primary domain.
You can create email addresses, forwarders, and more the same way as a primary domain on the account.
One of the main benefits for Create Addon domain is that you can manage multiple domains in a single account.
Content and Files for this addon domain will be stored as a unique folder within the public_html. This domain will be created in the cPanel account.
How to Create Addon Domain?
Login to your cPanel Account with the access given by your web hosting providers.
In search, enter “Domains” and click “Create a New Domain” as shown below.
Enter the domain name that you want to Create Addon domain in the text box and uncheck the checkbox near “Share document root”.
Under the Share Document Root Section, enter the folder name to set as root path where the addon files should be stored. Click “submit” button.
Document Root – Enter the Folder Name (Leave it to automatically take as addon domain name)
Now you can created both addon domain for the addon domain.
How to modify Addon domain account?
If you want to modify the destination path for addon, go to domainssection in cPanel -> Click Manage button near the domain name.
Here, replace with new folder name which will be automatically created as folder inside public_html. If you already have any files inside the old folder, you should copy/move the files to the new folder.
Remove Existing Addon:
In the same page as mentioned above, click Remove Domain button to remove from the domains section.
Once removed, go to File manager option in cPanel -> public_html and locate the folder name. Now remove the Folder to completely remove the addon from cPanel.
Install WordPress for Addon:
To install WordPress for the addon domain, click the “WordPress Manager by Softaculous” option on left side. Now click install button.
Now choose the addon name from the drop-down as shown below,
You can view the WordPress files under the addon domain folder inside the public_html directory once installed.
If you are facing any issues while Create Addon domain then it should be because of the below-mentioned reasons.
Before adding the domain, main domain nameserver must be updated for the addon domain. Only then, you could be able to add the domain on the cPanel.
For example, if the nameserver for the main domain is ns1.seekahost.info and ns2.seekahost.info, then the same nameserver must be updated for the addon domain in your domain registrar also.
Ensure you have Addon Availability in your cPanel Account. On the right side of your cPanel dashboard, you could see an option like Addon where you can see the allocation.
Check whether you have utilized the 100% disk usage or still you have enough space to create Addon Domain. If your disk space is more than 95%, you will face the issue in Create Addon domain.
Make sure you are not using the reserved domain names while Create Addon domains.
If you are still facing issue in adding the Addon domain, please contact SeekaHost on 24×7 Live support and share us the error screenshot.
Our experts will help you in solving it immediately and you can proceed with that.
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How to Install Free SSL in cPanel?
Before getting into the topic “How to Install AutoSSL in cPanel?” we should be clear about why we need to install SSL for the websites?
One of the most important backbones of online business is just creating a secured and trusted environment.
So an SSL certificate creates a foundation of trust by providing a secure connection. It creates a secured connection between the client and a server. SSL encrypts the data/information sent across the internet.
This is because; the information that you sent on the internet will travel from one computer to another computer to reach its destination place.
Anyone in between you and the server can be able to access your data/information that passes through the internet if it’s not encrypted. If you installed an SSL certificate for your website, the information that you send through this site will become unreadable except the destination server.
Auto SSL
AutoSSL is one of the best features in cPanel & WHM. By using AutoSSL, it automatically installs and renews Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates for every domain. SSL Installation and Renewal is one of the complex tasks. So most of the web hosting providers comfort the clients with Auto SSL to do the tasks easily. Here, you don’t want to fill out any forms or install the certificates manually. Once you enabled AutoSSL, your websites will be automatically secured free, domain validated SSL certificate. AutoSSL will not force the site to load in https, it needs to be changed manually.
Here, I have explained you how to enable AutoSSL in cPanel.
How to Install Auto SSL in cPanel?
Login to the cPanel Account.
Under Security section, click SSL/TLS Certificates option.
Click “Wizard” tab.
Click all the checkbox near each domain name or select only main domain and *.domain so it automatically take all subdomains. If you are configuring only for main domain and few subdomain, then you can select only those domain names. Click Continue button.
NOTE: If you select wildcard domain, then it will configure automatically for any subdomain you add later under the main domain in cPanel. If you remove and readd the same subdomain, it will not cover the subdomain so you have to select the subdomain and install SSL separately.
Now click Let’s Encrypt Certificate button.
Now in the popup window, click checkbox to accept the terms of Let’s Encrypt. Click Continue button.
Now the SSL certificate will be installed in the cPanel for the website.
If you add subdomains after installing the certificate, then the subdomain will be automatically covered under the existing certificate if you have selected the wildcard domain option while installing the certificate.
If the website loads with both http and https but you want to load only withhttps, kindly update the URL in phpMyAdmin -> Database -> wp_option and update the website name with HTTPS.
Also do force redirect on the “domains” section for the domain to redirect the website from http to https if visitor visit the website on http.
Helps visitor to visit secure website and increase the trust.
If you want to uninstall the SSL certificate, go to Installation tab
Now click “Uninstall” option near the installed certification.
Things to Consider for SSL Insecure Error:
1. If you pointed the A record or nameserver for the domain to the hosting provider, wait for 24 to 48 hours before install or Auto run SSL for the website.
NOTE: If your website is hosted with SeekaHost, SSL will be automatically installed within 12 hours after updating the nameservers—no need for manual installation.
2. Check Disk Usage exceeded for the website in cPanel. If exceeded, then remove bigger size files to reduce the disk usage and install SSL.
3. If disk Usage not exceeded, then check File usage/Inode count exceeded for the website in cPanel. Remove more number of files to reduce the count and install SSL.
NOTE: If you don’t see such option, then contact the hosting provider to enable that option.
4. For website loading with both http and https version, make sure you have enabled “Force https redirection” toggle on under domains option in cPanel to load only in https version.
5. If your website redirects to another website when load with https version, then check if any of your files is mentioned with http version. If not, install “Really simple SSL” plugin and configure to avoid mixed content.
6. If your website is pointed through Cloudflare and showing an SSL mismatch or insecure error, ensure your Cloudflare settings match your hosting server. Follow our step-by-step guide on How to Update DNS Records in Cloudflare to configure your SSL/TLS settings properly.
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