Becoming familiar with and navigating around in WHM

Becoming familiar with and navigating around in WHM

Every hosting account created in WHM has its own cPanel, an end user control panel.

Let’s take a look around. In this center frame there are several icons we can click on.

These icons correspond to headings in this left frame.

Clicking on an icon will bring up sub-icons that correspond to all the tools available on the left.

Click the account information icon.

Here are the 5 tools available to use under Account Information.

To access any of the these tools, you can click on the corresponding icon in this frame.

You can also click on the link here in this menu frame. You could have also done this from the WHM home page.

Scroll down here to see all the tools available in WHM.

As you can see, there are dozens of tools available to you.

Click the News link.

This is where you would get updates and the latest news from cPanel.

Click the Change Log link.

This page shows detailed information of your version of WHM, historical information about when it was updated, and what changes were made.

To logout of WHM, simply close your browser , or click the Log Out link.

This is the end of the tutorial. You should now be more familiar with WHM and how to navigate its pages. For more information on how to perform specific tasks, please refer to our other videos.

How to change an account password in WHM

How to change an account password in WHM

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to WebHost Manager.

Now let’s learn how to change an account password.

You may need to change an account password if it’s been forgotten, or if the customer wants it changed for security.

Remember that you can tell a customer that they can change their password themselves from their cPanel, so you really should only need to use the WHM password modification tool if it’s been forgotten and the customer cannot login to cPanel.

Click the Account Functions Link.

Then click the Password modification link.

Select the account that needs a password change.

Then enter a new password for the selected account…

… or click the Generate button to generate a new password.

To confirm the password, either re-type it or copy and paste it in the Confirm Password window.

Make sure to save the new password for your records.

When ready, click Change Password.

That’s it! This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to change the password of any account in WHM.

How to change your WHM password

How to change your WHM password

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to WebHost Manager.

Now let’s learn how to change our WHM admin password.

Click the Account Functions link.

Then click Password Modification.

Remember that the WHM password is the same as the cPanel password for your main account.

In this tutorial, our main account is demoreseller.com so let’s go ahead and change its password.

Enter and confirm a new password…

… then click Change Password.

That’s it! We’ve successfully changed our main password that’s used to login to WHM and cPanel for demoreseller.com.

Now let’s go try and do something else in WHM.

Click List Accounts.

Since we’ve just changed the WHM password, we are required to login again before being able to do anything else in WHM.

Login with your new password.

We are now logged back in to WHM.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to change your WHM password. Remember to keep your password in a safe place. Although you can change the password for any account in WHM, you cannot retrieve a lost password.

Using cPanel branding in WHM

Using cPanel branding in WHM

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to WebHost Manager.

Now let’s learn about cPanel branding and how to display a custom logo in cPanel.

Click the cPanel link.

Then click Customization.

This is where you can insert your company name along with a Help URL and Documentation URL.

You can also brand cPanel with your own logo.

Click Browse button to locate and upload the logo and then click Save… that’s all there is to it!

Click Customize Style tab.

To view help documentation on customizing the style of your Cpanel, click this link.

To upload your own cPanel style, click the Upload a Style button.

From here, you can manage and set your default cPanel style.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to use cPanel branding to replace the standard cPanel logo with your own.

How to create a new hosting account in WHM

How to create a new hosting account in WHM

Click the Account Functions link.

The click Create a New Account.

This is the heart of WHM. It is the screen where you can create new hosting accounts in real time.

There are several options for which you get to set limits. The limits you set here will define how many resources the account has access to.

Let’s go ahead and create a new hosting account.

Enter the domain name that will be used for this new account.

Click in the Username field to automatically create a username based off the domain name.

Now give the account a password…

Or use the Password Generator to create one.

Make sure you select the I have copied… option and then click Use Password button.

Now enter a working account holder’s email so if you ever need to send announcements via WHM to customers, the user will get it.

Choose a pre-defined account package to automatically fill in many of the options for your new account. This will speed up the process of creating a new account.

You can set up as many packages you want. We cover how to create account packages in another video.

Let’s go ahead and choose the demoreseller_Silver package.

Then click the Create button.

That’s it! The hosting account has been created on the server, along with a new cPanel control panel has set for it.

You should now send this informatioin to the person who will be using the account. They will need to know the username, password and IP address, as well as the nameservers.

They can now login to cPanel for this new account using the username and password we assigned, but will have to use the IP address method rather than the domain name method since the domain name will not work until its nameservers have been changed and propagated.

Let’s go take a look at the accounts in WHM. Click the Accounts link.

There it is, the new account we just created.

This is the end of this tutorial. If you ever want to make changes to accounts you create, you can do so by returning to WHM and using the Modify an Account feature.

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to WebHost Manager.

Now let’s learn how to create a new hosting account.