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1. This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to cPanel, and are starting on the home screen.
2. Now let’s learn how to create an addon domain.
3. Click the “Addon Domains” icon.
4. This is the addon domains page, where you can setup additional domain names that point to subdomains of your account.
5. Enter the new domain name …
6. Then enter a username.
7. Enter and confirm a password, then click “Add Domain”.
8. That’s it! The addon domain has been created.

1. This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to cPanel, and are starting on the home screen.
2. Now let’s learn how to create a domain alias.
3. Click the “Aliases” icon.
4. A domain alias is useful when you have additional domain names that you want people to be able to use to get to your website.
5. Enter the new domain, then click “Add Domain”.
6. That’s it! Now when someone browses to mybiz123.info, they’ll automatically be redirected to mybiz1234.com.
7. Be sure to set your domain alias’s DNS settings to the same as your main domain, so the redirection will work properly.

This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to cPanel, and are starting on the home screen. Now let’s learn how to create a MySQL database.

1. This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to cPanel, and are starting on the home screen.
2. Now let’s learn how to use the Index Manager.
3. Click the “Indexes” icon.
4. The Index Manager enables you to control how directories on your website are displayed.
   If there is no index.html file in a given directory, the contents of that directory will be listed in a browser. This can cause security issues. With Index Manager, you can set your account up to not allow your directory contents to be shown.
5. Let’s setup Index Manager for the client’s directory.
6. There are four settings to choose from.
7. The “Default System Setting” allows the directory contents to be shown. “No Indexing” does not allow directory contents to be shown. “Standard Indexing” prevents browsers from viewing contents of directories that do not contain image files. “Fancy Indexing” displays file names and information, such as file size and the last-modified date.
8. Since we do not want the contents of this directory shown, we’ll choose the “No Indexing” option.
9. That’s it! The index settings have been updated, and visitors can no longer view the contents of the clients directory.

1. This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to cPanel, and are starting on the home screen.
2. Now let’s learn how to create custom error pages.
3. Click the “Error Pages” icon.
4. There are several different error pages you can customize. Let’s customize the “404 error page”.
5. This is where you create your custom error page… and you can include one or more tags to further customize the page.
6. When finished, click “Save”.
7. That’s it! The custom 404 error page has been created.
8. You can customize the other error pages as well … but you don’t have to … all accounts come preset with standard error pages.

After setting up your brand new cPanel server, the first thing to do is log in for the first time. The cPanel control panel is a graphical user interface (GUI) for web hosting providing management of domains and files. Users can also control email, databases, and much more.

In addition to managing websites, applications, and databases, users also manage email accounts in cPanel. The first step towards managing email is to create the account properly. This tutorial walks through how to create an email account in cPanel.