PHP / Cpanel Hosting

Logging into Cpanel
  1. Go to <your website url>/cpanel. For example, website.com.au/cpanel
  2. Enter in your log in details and press enter.
Creating an email account
  1. Once you have logged in, click on “Email Accounts” in the “Mail” pane.
  2. You will be shown a list of email accounts attributed to your domain name.
  3. To add a new email address, enter in the details of the new account in the dialog at the top of the page.
  4. Enter in the email address, the password and confirm it. Leave the “Mailbox Quota” on the default 250mb.
  5. Once you have entered the details in, click on “Create Account”. The email account will then be shown in the list underneath.
Resetting email account password
  1. After logging in, click on “Email Accounts” in the “Mail” pane.
  2. You will then be given a list of email accounts. Search through the list of accounts until you find the desired email address. You can use the search function or click through the pages.
  3. Once you have located the email address, click on the “Change Password” link.
  4. A little dialog will appear which shall allow you to type in the new password.
  5. Once you have typed in the new password and confirmed it, click on “Change Password”.
Creating a forwarder
  1. After a successful log in, click on “Forwarders” in the “Mail” section.
  2. You will be shown a list of the current forwarders.
  3. To add a new one, click on “Add Forwarder”
  4. Enter in the address that the forwarder will be placed upon. Then enter in the address that all mail will be sent to.
  5. Once you are happy with the settings, click on “Add Forwarder”.
Creating an autoresponder
  1. Once you have logged in, click on “Auto Responders” in the “Mail” section.
  2. You will be shown a list of email auto responders that are in effect.
  3. To add a new autoresponder, click on “Add Autoresponder”.
  4. In the following form, enter in the details that are requested. A quick explanation is below:
    1. Interval (hours) – this is the period of time between automatic responses. So if a sender is sending many emails to the same account (the one that has the autoresponder applied) only one every 8 (by default) hours will be sent.
    2. Email – this is the email address that the autoresponder is to be applied to.
    3. From - you can configure the autoresponder so that only certain email addresses receive the automatically responded email.
    4. Subject – this is the subject for your reply email. You can also use the following tags:
      1. %subject% - this is the subject of the email that was sent in
      2. %from% - the sender of the email
      3. %email% - the email address of the sender
    5. Body – this is the text for your reply email. If you click on the check box for “This message contains HTML” you can have a nicely formatted email, much like what would be sent from Outlook.
Removing an autoresponder
  1. After you have logged in, click on “Auto Responders” in the “Mail” section.
  2. Search through the list and find the auto responder that you wish to remove.
  3. Once you have found it, click on the “Delete” link. Confirm that you wish to delete the autoresponder.
  4. You will be given a confirmation page, and then you shall be returned to the list of autoresponders.
Viewing website statistics
  1. After you have successfully logged in, click on “Awstats” in the “Logs” section.
  2. You be shown a list of domains under your account, there should usually only be one, click on the magnifying glass icon.
  3. A new window will be displayed that lists all of the statistics for your website.
  4. Once you have finished viewing the statistics, close the new window and you will be shown the list of domains. Click on “Home” in the top left to return to the main menu.