cPanel Archives - RoseHosting

How to Install cPanel and WHM on CentOS 7

December 15, 2022October 23, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

cPanel is the most popular and most widely-used control panel for managing and automating web hosting tasks. It is the world’s most intuitive and user-friendly control panel, with a very simple and straight-to-the-point graphical interface. cPanel is a Linux-based web hosting control panel, that utilizes a 3 tier structure for system administrators, resellers and end-user website owners, all via a web-browser. Other than the beautiful user interface, cPanel has command line access and API-based access for third-party software integration, for web hosting providers or developers and administrators to automate their system administration processes. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install WHM and cPanel on CentOS 7.

How to use the Hotlink Protection tool in cPanel

June 3, 2022July 31, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

If you have a lot of images on your site, you might be vulnerable to other sites stealing your bandwidth and basically using your site as a CDN! Hotlinking is when another site uses an <img> tag and places your site in the “src” tag, thereby pulling the image directly from your server. There’s no attribution unless the hotlinking site deliberately chooses to do so. In this article, I’ll show you how to use the hotlink protection tool in cPanel.

How to Schedule Cron Jobs in cPanel

April 5, 2023July 10, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

A cron job is a Linux command that’s executed at regular intervals. These “jobs” can be scheduled via the command line, but it’s much easier to do it via the cPanel GUI interface. cPanel also conveniently shows the number of existing cron jobs, and it can also send the output of the command via e-mail. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to schedule cron jobs easily and efficiently.

How to Password Protect Directories in cPanel

June 3, 2022June 18, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

Normally, if you create a folder on your site, you can access all the files inside it just by visiting the file’s URL. Sometimes however, you want to password protect directories in cPanel – either you’re testing a new design that you’re not ready to show the world, or it’s a staging area for your site. Or maybe you just want to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive parts your site. Like the “wp-admin” area of WordPress for example.

Install Redis and Redis PHP on cPanel

June 3, 2022October 12, 2017 by Jeff Wilson

Redis stands for Remote DIctionary Server and it is a key-value NoSQL database. Almost all languages including PHP have Redis bindings. In this guide, we will show you how to install Redis server and Redis PHP extension on a cPanel based servers so you can use Redis as a cache backend for your WordPress, Laravel, Drupal or any other PHP based application.

How to enable HTTP2 on WHM/cPanel with EasyApache 4

June 3, 2022September 19, 2017 by Jeff Wilson

In this tutorial we are going to provide you with step-by-step instructions on how to enable HTTP2 on a CentOS 7 VPS with WHM/cPanel and EasyApache 4 installed on it. HTTP2 is a major revision of the HTTP network protocol and its goal is to reduce the latency as well as to make the web applications faster by allowing multiple concurrent requests between the web browser and the server across a single TCP connection.

How to install Laravel on cPanel

December 9, 2022September 12, 2017 by Jeff Wilson

We will show you, how to install Laravel on cPanel. Laravel is the most starred PHP framework on Github and also the most preferred framework of PHP developers. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for a cPanel VPS. Let’s get started with the installation of Laravel on your cPanel server.

6 Common WHM/cPanel Problems

June 3, 2022October 5, 2016 by Jeff Wilson

WHM/cPanel is a great hosting control panel that eases the server administration dramatically. It has a very easy and straightforward interface for everyday use.

However, many people don’t know the difference between WHM and cPanel. So let’s make a brief explanation.

WHM (Web Hosting Manager) is the core program that has administrative access to the back-end of cPanel. With WHM you can create cPanel accounts and set global settings that apply to them or the server. You can also create reseller accounts and offer hosting services to clients or you can use it for your own personal needs.

cPanel, on the other hand, is the website management panel and allows you to create databases, email accounts, FTP users, add-on domains, subdomains etc. Each individual cPanel account controls the settings for that particular account.