2006 June | cPanel Support dot net -- cPanel Tips &Techniques

View Your Bandwidth Used

29 June 2006

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View a report of your bandwith used (how many bytes your site has transferred) with a relatively buried feature of cPanel. Info includes nice graphs of the current day’s bandwidth for the current year. Report covers HTTP, SMTP, FTP and POP3 traffic. To get to the report: On the main / home cPanel page, click [...]

How To Create a Database and Add a User to a MySQL Database

26 June 2006

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When you install an app for your site such as WordPress blog, one of the first steps is often create a database, create a user and add the user to the database. cPanel makes this fast and painless. Follow the link to the MySQL Databases section and you get to the MySQL Account Maintenance page. [...]

Help Manage Spam By Turning On a “Spam Box”

25 June 2006

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Now that you are running SpamAssassin, there are more steps to take to get ahead of spam. One step is to set up a “spam box.” A spam box is part of your email account. It works much like the spam folders in gmail, Yahoo mail, et al. All email tagged by SpamAssassin is put [...]

Finding the Almost Hidden phpMyAdmin Link

21 June 2006

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Work with your MySQL databases through phpMyAdmin, a great browser-based application you access through cPanel. I use it often and still have a hard time finding the link. When you are logged into cPanel: Click the link for MySQL Databases Scroll toward the bottom of the page (below the MySQL Account Maintenance section) Click the [...]

How To Use cPanel to Delete a Ton of Files

19 June 2006

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Sometimes you end up with a ton of files in a directory, so many files that it is difficult to delete them. (I did this with some file caching code that was not working as well as I thought.) Just trying to change directory to where all those files are hangs the FTP software. Try [...]

Create a Custom Error “404″ Page

18 June 2006

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A “404″ error refers to a page not found. (This name comes from the HTTP code 404 which indicates file not found.) Create a custom page so your visitors see a page that is visually more appealing than the default page, that is consistent with the design and branding of your site, and is also [...]

Access Email Directly (No Need to Log Into cPanel)

16 June 2006

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You can check your email without logging into cPanel. For example, say your site is mysite.com, you would go to: http://www.mysite.com/webmail/ This takes you to a login screen. Username is your entire email address (for example, me@mysite.com) cPanel provides three web user interfaces to your email: NeoMail, Horde and SquirrelMail. (The links are provided only [...]

Get a Grip on Spam: How to Enable Spam Assassin

14 June 2006

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I use SpamAssassin and highly recommend it for all our accounts. SpamAssassin is a mail filter installed on a server to identify spam. It checks for spam using many pre-set rules that check the header, body, and sender of all email messages sent to your domain mailbox. SpamAssassin generates a score for each email. Score [...]

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Archive | June, 2006

View Your Bandwidth Used

How To Create a Database and Add a User to a MySQL Database

Help Manage Spam By Turning On a “Spam Box”

Finding the Almost Hidden phpMyAdmin Link

How To Use cPanel to Delete a Ton of Files

Create a Custom Error “404″ Page

Access Email Directly (No Need to Log Into cPanel)

Get a Grip on Spam: How to Enable Spam Assassin

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