Author: dpepper

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.

1. This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to cPanel, and are starting on the home screen.
2. Now let’s create a new email account.
3. Click the Email Accounts icon.
4. Enter the email address you want to create, and assign it a password.
5. Set a mailbox quota for the account if you wish.
6. Then click “Create Account”.
7. That’s it! The new email account has been successfully created.
8. From the Email Accounts screen you can access webmail for the account, change its password, change the quota, or even delete the account.

Pre-Flight Check

Overview

A security vulnerability has been discovered in the ImageMagick software suite that can potentially allow remote code execution.

Plesk 12.5 runs two scheduled tasks every day to compile web statistics and perform daily maintenance. By default, Plesk will send an email to the administrator every time each the tasks completes, which some users may consider a minor annoyance. Fortunately, it’s easy to adjust the notification options for these scripts so that emails are only generated when an error occurs.

In this article, we discuss the backup and restore of databases in Plesk. In earlier versions of Plesk, it was required to use database management tools to dump your databases. But in Plesk 12.5, it allows you to backup a database (by exporting a database dump as an SQL file) and then restoring them (by importing a database dump as an SQL file) without actually having to leave the control panel! Let’s take a look at how to accomplish this task…

You can add or edit users, and create and assign roles via Plesk’s user settings page. The method for accessing user settings is slightly different in various Plesk views:

Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority from the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). It enables anyone to install a free trusted SSL certificate on their website and benefit from the enhanced security an encrypted connection provides. Unlike a self-signed SSL certificate, which also is free and secure (but not verified), a Let’s Encrypt certificate is recognized as fully verified and will display the padlock icon in the address bar of modern browsers.