Overview Important This functionality is experimental. It may change in future versions. The Unrestricted application programming interface (API) tokens can access API functions that do not have an associated feature. × Dismiss alert This feature lets you create, list, update, and revoke API tokens. The server recognizes API tokens and allows you to run API functions. API functions allow you …
Overview The Leech Protection interface allows you to detect unusual levels of activity in password-restricted directories. After you set the maximum number of logins within a two-hour period, the system redirects or suspends users who exceed it. This is useful if, for example, someone posts a user’s login credentials on a public site. Enable leech protection To …
Overview The IP Blocker interface allows you to block access to your site for one or more IP addresses or fully qualified domain names (FQDNs). Note WHM users can block IP addresses at the server level via the Host Access Control interface (WHM >> Home >> Security Center >> Host Access Control). × Dismiss alert Block an IP address …
Overview 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. Note When you disable hotlinks, make certain that you allow hotlinks for any necessary domains. For example, your website’s subdomains and the URL that …
Overview DNS (Domain Name System) converts human-readable domain names (for example, example.com) to computer-readable IP addresses (for example, 192.0.0.1). DNS relies on zone records that exist on your server to map domain names to IP addresses. Several different types of records reside in a domain’s zone file. This feature allows you to create, edit, and delete the …
Overview This interface allows you to create and manage subdomains for your cPanel account. A subdomain is a subsection of your website that sometimes exists as a subdirectory of your public_html (document root) directory or your account’s home directory. Subdomains use a prefix in conjunction with the domain name. For example, if the registered domain name is example.com, …
Overview This interface enables you to quickly create a simple website, even if you have never created a website before. When you use this interface, you will select an appropriate template for your website, and then enter the website content that the template requests. For example, you can use this interface to create a simple …
Overview The Redirects interface allows you to send all of the visitors of a domain or particular page to a different URL. For example, if you create a page with a long URL, use the Redirects interface to add a redirect from a short URL to the long URL. Visitors can enter the short URL to access the content …
Overview Use this interface to create and manage multiple domains from a single cPanel account. Create a New Domain Important To create a new domain, your hosting provider must enable at least one the following features in WHM’s Feature Manager interface (WHM >> Home >> Packages >> Feature Manager): Addon Domains Aliases Subdomains × Dismiss alert To create a domain, perform …
Overview Domain aliases are domains that you own, but which do not contain any content. Instead, they point to the contents of another domain or subdomain on your account. This is useful, for example, to hold a domain that you will later sell, or to redirect traffic to another domain. Important Unless your hosting provider …
