CHAPTER 3. HOW DO I USE CPANEL?

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How do I use CPanel?

CPanel provides a complete range of functionality to manage all aspects of your web site. The following areas

are available:

  Mail Menu   The Mail Menu area allows you to manage all aspects of your email, from adding new

accounts, managing mailing lists, and setting spam filters.

  Account Settings   The Account Settings area deals with all the tools that you need to control your

account using CPanel, changing your web site, creating custom error pages, using subdomains, and other

tools.

  Access Menu   The Access Menu area deals with all the tools that you need to control your own access

to your web site using CPanel, including managing files, protecting directories, backing up your site, and

using SSL to access your web site.

  Advanced Menu   The Advanced Menu area deals with a number of options that you normally would

not need to use very often, including cron jobs, mime types, Apache handlers, and a number of other useful

tools.

  Tools   The Tools area contains a large number of different utilities, from web site statistics to pre installed

CGI scripts and shopping carts, to Frontpage Extensions and OpenPGP keys.

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CPanel themes

Themes are the visual representation of the CPanel user interface   in other words, what CPanel looks like.

CPanel comes in two standard themes:

  Default   Has a front page that displays all of your account information, and all functions are found in

menus at the top of the window.

Figure 3.1: Default theme

  Iconic   Has a front page that displays all of the central functions with account information on one page.

Because this theme uses more graphics, it is slower to load.

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