Complete cPanel tools and features guide

Apache handlers control how your site’s Apache web server software manages certain file types and file extensions.

This interface allows you to run cPanel API functions interactively.

Cron jobs are scheduled tasks that the system runs at predefined times or intervals.

Error pages inform visitors about problems when they attempt to access your site.

Use the Indexes interface to define how the server displays a specific directory's index to a visitor, or to disable index display for a directory.

MIME types relay information to the browser about how to handle file extensions.

The Terminal interface allows you to access an in-browser terminal application for direct command-line access within a cPanel & WHM session.

This interface contains tools to help you retrieve network information.

The Virus Scanner interface scans your cPanel account for security threats.

This wizard guides you through the setup of a MySQL® or MariaDB® database, user accounts, and user privileges.

Use this interface to create, manage, and delete MySQL® or MariaDB® databases and database users.

This wizard guides you through the setup of a MySQL® database, user accounts, and user privileges.

Use this interface to create, manage, and delete MySQL databases and database users.

Use this interface to create, manage, and delete MySQL® databases and database users.

Use this interface to manipulate MySQL® or MariaDB® databases.

Use this interface to manipulate PostgreSQL® databases.

This wizard guides you through the setup of a PostgreSQL® database, user accounts, and user privileges.

Use this interface to create, manage, and delete PostgreSQL® databases and database users.

This feature allows remote hosts (servers) to access MySQL® and MariaDB® databases on your account.

Use this interface to create and manage multiple domains from a single cPanel account.

Use this interface to manage your dynamic DNS (DDNS) domains.

This interface allows you to send all of the visitors of a domain or particular page to a different URL.

This interface lets you audit your websites for how easy they make it for search engines like Google to process the site's content. This is so that search engines can deliver your content to users who search for related terms.

This interface enables you to quickly create a simple website, even if you have never created a website before.

Use this interface to view and manage your Sitejet domains.

Use this interface to manage social media for your websites.

This interface allows you to manage the WordPress® installations on your cPanel account.

This feature allows you to create, edit, and delete Domain Name System (DNS) zone records.

This interface lets you create, manage, and delete email accounts.

This interface allows you to use two types of files to create multiple email addresses or forwarders for your account simultaneously.

This interface allows you to save incoming, outgoing, and mailing list messages for a specified amount of time.

This feature allows you to configure automatic email response messages.

The BoxTrapper feature filters spam from your inbox through challenge-response verification.

The Calendar Delegation interface allows you to delegate access rights for a user's calendars to other users.

This interface allows you to create, delete, or rename calendars and address books.

The Calendars and Contacts Sharing interface allows you to grant access rights on a user's calendar(s) or address book(s) to other users.

This interface allows you to enable or disable greylisting for each domain on your account. Greylisting defends email users against spam.

This interface lets you create a new email account.

This interface allows you to set up a domain default address (catch-all address) that receives any mail for an invalid email address for the domain.

Use this interface to identify problems with your mail-related DNS records for one or more of your domains.

This interface allows you to view all of your mailboxes and remove old or large messages.

This interface allows you to filter the email for each email account in your domain.

This interface allows you to configure how the system routes a domain's incoming mail.

This interface allows you create, store, and manage GnuPG keys.

This interface allows you to configure an email address to forward copies of incoming emails to another address.

This interface allows you to configure how your server filters all of the email that your domains' email accounts receive.

Mailing lists allow you to use a single address to send mail to multiple email addresses.

This interface lets you edit an existing email account.

This interface lets you easily configure a mail client to access a cPanel email address.

This interface allows you to configure the spam filter settings (powered by Apache SpamAssassin™) for your account.

This interface displays reports about email message delivery attempts from your account.

Use this interface to define how anonymous users interact with your FTP server.

This interface allows you to download and store your site in a backup file.

This interface allows you to back up all or part of your website, or to restore it from the most recent backup file.

This interface allows you to protect specific directories in your cPanel account's files.

This interface displays information about your files, your directories, and how you use your account's disk space.

The File and Directory Restoration interface allows you to restore items from local backup sources.

Use the File Manager interface to manage and edit your files.

You can use this interface to create and manage your website's File Transfer Protocol (FTP) accounts.

This interface displays information about current connections to your FTP server and allows you to terminate those connections.

This feature allows you to easily host Git repositories on your cPanel account.

Gitweb allows you to browse, view, and review your repositories from within a simple interface.

The HTML Editor interface allows you to easily edit your HTML documents from the File Manager interface.

The Images interface allows you to modify and manage images that you saved to your account.

Use this interface to manage and manipulate files on your server on multiple types of devices

The Site Quality Monitoring feature allows you to monitor your website for common issues. The Site Quality Monitoring interface contains tabs that manage monitoring in different ways.

The Analog Stats interface allows you to access data from the Analog traffic statistics software.

The Awstats interface displays traffic statistics from the Advanced Web Statistics (AWStats) software, which compiles information about how users access your website.

The Bandwidth interface displays bandwidth usage information in several sets of graphs.

Use this interface to view and monitor resource usage.

The interface displays up to 300 of the most recent entries in your web server's error logs, in reverse chronological order.

This interface allows you to select metrics programs to process your log files and provide traffic analysis for your account's domains.

Raw access logs are text files that contain information about your website's visitors.

This interface displays detailed information about recent visits to your website.

The Webalizer interface displays traffic statistics from the Webalizer statistics program.

The Webalizer FTP interface displays FTP traffic statistics from the Webalizer statistics program.

Use this feature to create and manage virtual cPanel accounts.

Use this interface to change your account settings.

You can choose to view the cPanel interface in many different languages.

Use this interface to store contact information for your cPanel account and to set your contact preferences.

This interface allows you to update your account's password.

This interface allows you to manage your cPanel account's subaccounts.

A hotlink occurs when someone embeds content from your site in another site and uses your bandwidth to serve the files. You can use this interface to prevent this issue.

The IP Blocker interface allows you to block access to your website for one or more IP addresses or fully qualified domain names (FQDNs).

The Leech Protection interface allows you to detect unusual levels of activity in password-restricted directories.

This feature lets you create, list, update, and revoke API tokens.

This interface allows you to enable or disable ModSecurity for your domains.

This interface allows you to update and manage your cPanel account's security questions.

This interface provides information about how to connect to another web server via the SSH (secure shell) network protocol.

The features in this interface allow you to generate and manage SSL certificates, signing requests, and keys, which enhance your website's security.

This interface provides a tabbed view of SSL/TLS tools so you can manage certificates, keys, requests, and installations.

This interface lets you view, upgrade, or renew your domains' Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates.

This interface allows you to easily purchase and automatically install SSL certificates for domains on your account.

Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a security measure that requires two forms of identification.

This interface allows you to deploy applications with the Phusion Passenger® application server.

This interface allows you to configure your PHP settings.

cPanel's MultiPHP Manager interface allows you to easily manage your account's PHP configuration.

This interface allows you to configure your server to automatically compress specified types of content when visitors access that content.

This interface allows you to search for and install Perl modules from the CPAN repository to your website.

The PHP PEAR Packages interface allows you to search for and add PEAR packages to your website, or view all of your website's available PHP packages.

This interface allows you to create and deploy a Ruby on Rails® application.

RubyGems is a package manager for the Ruby programming language. It provides a self-contained format in which developers can distribute Ruby programs and libraries.

This interface allows you to add, manage, upgrade, and remove cPanel Addons (cPAddons).