For a webmaster it is one of the regular tasks to shift files and folders from one directory to another. If you are a webmaster using cPanel Hosting which comes with cheap web hosting plans, then it’s an easy task to move files and folder from one directory to another. You just need to follow the following instructions.

• Log in in to your cPanel account, here your can find ‘File Manager’ Icon under Files category.
• Click on it and You will come to one message window providing you the following options

1. Home Directory
2. Web Root (public_html/www)
3. Public FTP Root (public_ftp)
4. Document Root for (For Exchanging Data among sub-domains created on a main domain)

• You need to select the appropriate option to find the destination of file or folder you need to move from and click ‘Go button. (’Home Directory’ contains all the sub-directories so you need to follow longer path if your went through it)
• After reaching to your destination file or folder you can find all editing options at the top of the window including ‘New File’ ‘New Folder’, ‘Copy’, ‘Move File’, ‘Upload’, ‘‘Download’, ‘Delete’ etc.
• As you want to move the File, you first select it and click on ‘Move File’ now it will ask you the destination folder where you want to move the file, just provide it and click on ‘Move File(s)’ button.

That’s it you can check for the file you have moved in the respective folder.

When you transfer your website to a new web hosting services provider they ask you for ‘Authorization Code’. It’s a Unique 6 to 32 character lone code which is specially created to prevent any unsecured or unauthorized transfers of website. This ‘Authorization Code’ provides a security feature as it works as an unique Pin for your website (domain name) and it certifies that person who is demanding the transfer of domain is the real owner of that particular website. This code can be found in the control panel of that website. With the help of the ‘Authorization Code’ you can also lock your website and prevent any attempt of transformation without your authority. When you want to transfer it they you can unlock it.

cPanel by default comes with the inbuilt scripts, which has the ability to backup or restore your cPanel account. Following are the commands given to run these scripts.
Following is the command which creates the backup of a cPanel account.
/scripts/pkgacct
Following is the command which restores the taken backup
/scripts/restorepkg
Both these commands should be run as root and while restoring a backup you also need to take care to be in the same directory in which the backup is stored.

‘Awstats’ is one of the most important utility in a web hosting account’s cPanel. One can analyze the website’s statistics with it. It comes as a free utility with cPanel Hosting. Many web hosting services providers provide it as a paid option with other web hosting types services like vps hosting or Dedicated Server Hosting. Following is the procedure to activate ‘Awstats’ with your hosting account.

• Log in to your cPanel with Username and Password
• Search for ‘Choose Log Programs’ under ‘Logs’ Category and click on it.
• Here you can find ‘Awtats’ option beside your domain name, click on it.
• Now go back to the previous screen where you will find ‘Awstats’ logo. You can click on it to use it.

Note:- It may take time until the completion of the cycle of 24 hours to appear the statistics in ‘Awstats’.

Yes you can do it for any email address which even does not exists. Such type of forwarder is called as ‘catch-all’ or ‘default email address’. As far as you have set any particular email ID the forwarder would only check it and forward the mails without checking its existence.

You just need to set the email ID ‘deletedemailid@abc.com‘ to ‘yourdesiredemailid@abc.com‘

SSH keys are the great utility for cPanel shared hosting clients. These SSH keys play important role while allowing a specific computer system to access your website’s information through a SSH session.

Find the ‘Generate a new Key and Import Key links and follow the following the steps.

• Click the ‘Generate a new key icon.
• Fill all the required information properly. This is to be done by keeping in mind your requirements as RSA keys creates a faster confirmation of identity and DSA keys are known for fast key generation and signing times.
• Choose a key size using the pull-down menu. While doing this you should know that a bigger key size provides more security but will take more time for authentication. So you need to decided the proper combination of security level and time consumed for authentication.
• Click on Generate Key for the generation of new SSH key and it will get automatically installed on the web server.

When you have a cPanel shared hosting account for your website then this is the utility which makes you able to provide the email addresses at which you want to receive all the updates and messages from your web hosting server. These provided email addresses works as the main communication point with you and used for informing you any new information about your website and its updates. It is always recommended to use an email address which is not of your website, because it will not face any problem when your website’s emails would stop working.

Have look at the following steps for configuring these preferences.

• In the first text field you should enter the email address which you would like to be used while making contact from web server to you.
• Second text box is provided for entering other optional extra email if first email failed to receive the messages.
• Here you will find 3 check boxes which will decide when server should contact you by sending the email. Following are their descriptions.

1. Your disk quota is almost full :- When your website is close to reach the maximum disk space provided to it then it may cause for failure in modifying the current files and addition of any new files to the website, after receiving this message you need to delete any unwanted old files or upgrade your hosting account with more disk space.
2. Your bandwidth is reaching its limit :- When your website is visited a large number of visitors than normally expected then you face bandwidth issue. Similar to disk space, bandwidth is the resource which is provided with certain limitation for your website, and if it exceeded than the provided limitation then your website will not remain accessible anymore. This type of the problem occurs mostly at month ends and to fix it you need to upgrade your web hosting account with more bandwidth resource.
3. Your email accounts approach the quota :- This notification shows that email address provided by you are about to reach to their maximum limitation of the disk space allocated to it. For resolving this issue you need to delete any unnecessary mails of upgrade your account with more disk space.

• Remember to click ‘Save’ for confirming any changes made by you.

A large number of webmasters use cPanel server hosting service, which also includes wide use of different types of php scripts. php mail scripts are one of the most important scripts for a webmaster as the mail deliveries are completely depends on them. In this post you can see how to check either php mail script is working fine or not on yourweb hosting server.

If your server is a cPanel server then make sure to enable all mails, you can check it from WHM > tweak settings.

Log in to cPanel and click on ‘File Manager’

Find the public_html directory which is normally found at ‘/home/username/public_html directory’

Create file with name testing.php

type the following script in testing.php

<?php
$to = “someone@example.com”;
$subject = “Test mail”;
$message = “Hello! This is a simple email message.”;
$from = “someonelse@example.com”;
$headers = “From: $from”;
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo “Mail Sent.”;
?>

Change your email ID with test@yourdomain.com

As you are in a cPanel so you need to chant ownership to user.user and permission to 644 but if you are not in cPanel then there is no need to make any changed in the permission.

Save the editions and exit

Now go to http://yourdomain/testing.php

If you received the mail at the given email ID after visiting the above link then your php mail script has no problem and working very well on the server.

Before starting this installation one should make sure of the following things.

• You have access to your web server (via shell or FTP)

• You have a text editor

• You have a FTP Client

• Make sure your web hosting services provider has provided you all the minimum resources required to run a Wordpress.

Assuming that the above mentioned points are fulfilled I would like you to go through the following steps for completing the installation.

1. Download and unzip the WordPress package from the official website (http://wordpress.org/) or from a well-trusted source.

2. Make a database file on your shared web hosting account which is also called Web Hosting With cPanel, also create a MySQL user will all possible privileges to handle the database.

3. You will see the ‘wp config’ file with the name wp-config-sample.php, rename it as wp-config.php.

4. Open the renamed ‘config file’ in a text editor read the Editing_wp-config.php and insert your database details in to it as instructed, this will help you generate and user your private key password.

5. Move the Wordpress files at your desired location on your web server.

If one is willing to use a root domain name then he should place and upload the unzipped wordpress directory directly in to the root directory of web server. But if worpress is to be installed on a sub-domain of a main domain then the unzipped wordpress directory should be uploaded in to the sub-directory which should be renamed with that sub-domain name. Following is the example I would like to share to get more detail idea of this.

• Wordpress installation for main domain

yourdomain.com is the main domain you want to host with wordpress then upload the unzipped wordpress directory in the root directory of yourdomain.com.

• Wordpress installation for sub-domain

If you want to install wordpress at blog.yourdomain.com (sub-domain) then you should rename to wordpress directory with your sub-domain name (blog) and upload the unzipped wordpress directory in to it.

6. In the final step of wrodpress installation run the WordPress installation script by accessing wp-admin/install.php by typing in the browser

• In case of main domain wordpress installation the installation url should be as follows

http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php

• In case of sub-domain (blog) wordpress installation the installation url should be as follows

http://blog.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php

Here is the end of your wordpress installation process.

AWStats is short form used for Advanced Web Statistics. AWStats is powerful and efficient log analyzer which provides advanced web, ftp, mail and streaming server statistical reports from the data stored in the server logs. The data is graphically represented in easy to read and understand web pages.

AWStats is designed keeping in mind flexibility for users, it can be run or used through a web browser CGI or directly from the operating system command line. AWStats is free software application distributed under the GNU General Public License. As AWStats works from the command line as well as a CGI, it is compatible with web hosting providers which allow CGI and log access.

Reports generated by AWStats include a wide range of information on your web site usage, some of the key features are mentioned below:

• Its provides a count of Number of visitors and the number of Unique visitors.
• It displays the visit duration and visits.
• List of Authenticated users and latest authenticated visitors
• Usage bifurcated by Months, Days and Hours of the day
• Domain names and Countries
• Provides details of Most viewed, entry and exit pages
• Displays Web Compression Statistics
• Visitors Browser information is also provided
• Search Engine crawler and Robot visit information
• Tracking of downloads like PDF, compressed files and others can be done easily
• Search engines, Keywords and Phrases used to find your website
• HTTP Errors if any are displayed
  
• The number of times your site is added to Bookmarks / Favorites can be tracked.
  

cPanel is known for providing a spontaneous interface to help webmasters for managing their websites. On the other hand WHM (Web Host Manager) make it simple to manage server side operations for making the administration process easier. When both these comes together, the complicated tasks of managing accounts become simple.

Many web professionals prefers this great utility which makes it easy to upgrade new technology without any major problems. By adopting for cPanel a website can remain ahead with the latest technologies and innovations. Being a self-monitoring application ‘cPanel is able to detect failed services and automatically restart the services. Recently it has been improved with clustering for better performance.

As cPanel is one of the most widely used application all over the world, updates and solutions on any issues are easy to find on internet and can be used by webmasters without the help of cPanel web hosting company’s support staff.

There are number of ways to install Joomla cms on your website. Here is the simplest and quickest method to do it.

• Log in to your cPanel of your website.
• Under ‘Software/Services’ you will find a smiley icon. This is ‘Fantastico’ or ‘Fantastico De Luxe’ icon. Click on it.
• Under Content Management list you will find Joomla may be single or multiple with different versions. Click on the latest version available.
• Click on the new ‘New Installation’ which is generally with blue text color and hyper-linked. Also check out for the minimum disk-space necessary for installation which is generally around 25 MB but changes according to versions to be installed.
• Select the location for Joomla installation which can be your main domain or sub-domain also.
• Fill all the required field and take necessary care while selecting Username and Password, other fields like website name, email address are also recommended to be filled properly.
  
• Click the button ‘Install Joomla’.
• Checkout all the information filled is correct and click on ‘Finish Installation’ button.

This can be done with the support of web hosting service provider help and once you get it did this for few times, next time you can do this within 2 minutes.