Entries Tagged as 'cPanel'

Power of Perl – Controlling and expanding Cpanel/WHM through the Cpanel/WHM API

When running a shared hosting environment, it is impossible to stay competitive without the use of some form of control panel. And in the world of linux shared web hosting, no control panel is as widely used as cPanel Inc’s cPanel/WHM combo. The Cpanel team has put a lot of time and effort into the remote administration of WHM, and through that Cpanel. With a little ingenuity and not much work, really, this API can be extended to include any functions you can imagine, up to and including the system administration of the machine itself. So lets look at the basics thereof.
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Mime Types

cpanelMime types tell browsers how to handle certain extensions. For example, the text/html mime type equates to .htm, .html, and .shtml extensions on most servers, and this tells your browser to interpret all files with those extensions as HTML files.
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Manage OpenPGP Keys

cpanel The Manage OpenPGP Keys Menu allows you to add public and private GnuPG keys to your account. GnuPG is a publicly available encryption scheme that uses the “public key” approach. With GnuPG, messages are encrypted using a “public key” however, they can only be decrypted by a “private key”, which is retained by the intended recipient of the message.
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cPanel Network Tools

cpanel Network Tools allow you to find out information about any domain, or to trace the route from the server your site is hosted on to the computer you are accessing your cPanel from. Finding out information about a domain can be very useful in making sure your DNS is set up correctly as you will find out information about your IP addres as well as your DNS.
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MySQL database within cPanel

cpanel SQL stands for Structured Query Language. SQL is an international standard in querying and retrieving information from databases. MySQL is essentially an SQL server – it responds to requests for information that are written in SQL. To use a MySQL database, you must first create it, and then add one or more users to it.

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