To disable “Your email requires verification verify#” email, follow the steps below:-

• Login to the your CPanel
• Go to Mail -> BoxTrapper Spam Trap (latest version CPanel, look for BoxTrapper in Home)
• You will see a list of email address with their status of BoxTrapper Spam Trap feature
• Click on “Manage” and click “Disable”
• Done. You just disable the BoxTrapper Spam Trap feature.
  Your friend will not receive “Your email requires verification verify#” anymore

** After this features has been disabled, you might start to receive spam.

[Sun Jul 13 01:15:32 2008] [crit] [client 218.208.xxx.xxx] (13)Permission denied: /home/mydomain/public_html/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable

And the site is showing “403 Forbidden Error”.
At first, I suspect it’s .htaccess problem, but actually it’s caused by Frontpage Extension.

To solve “.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable” follow the steps below:-

• Login into your CPanel account
• Click on “Frontpage Extensions” icon
• Click on “Reinstall extensions” button beside your problem domain.
  *If you do not use any frontpage extensions, it’s good to uninstall this extension
• Done. The “.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file” problem has been fixed.

** If you are not on CPanel hosting, please contact your system administrator to fix the problem. ***

Credit: The HungryCoder

Here’s the Domain Parking example: you have a website www.domain1.com and now you wan your site to be easily access using other domain name as well. So you buy few more domains – www.domain2.com, www.domain3.com, www.domain4.com. By using the Domain Parking feature, visitor able to get into your www.domain1.com using all the other new domain you buy just now. Sound cool right?

How to do domain parking in CPanel Hosting?

• Login to your Cpanel
• Click on “Parked Domain”
• Enter the new domain name that you just bought at “New Domain Name” and click on “Add Domain”
• Wait for CPanel to process, if no error occur, then the domain parking process is successful.

How to delete a parked domain in CPanel?

• Login to your Cpanel
• Click on “Parked Domain”
• Scroll the page to the bottom and select the domain you want to remove at “Remove Parked Domain” drop down list and click on “Remove Domain”
• Wait for CPanel to process, if no error occur, your domain will be remove from the parked domain list.

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Disable directory browsing using .htaccess:-

• Open your .htacces file
• Look for Options Indexes
• If Options Indexes exists modify it to Options -Indexes or else add Options -Indexes as a new line
• The directory browsing feature should be disable by now

Disable directory browsing using httpd.conf:-

• Open your httpd.conf, normally it’s located at /usr/local/apache/conf or /etc/httpd.conf
• Go to your own Virtual Host settings and look for “Options Indexes”
• Change the Indexes to -Indexes if Option Indexes exists or else add the Options -Indexes line
• Restart your apache web server.
• The directory browsing feature should be disable by now

Disable directory browsing in CPanel Share Hosting enviroment:-

• Login to your CPanel
• Click on Index Manager
• Directory will be list down. Click on the directory name which you want to disable the directory browsing
• Select No Index and click Save
• The directory browsing feature should be disable by now

Once you disable directory browsing, visitor will not able to browse your directory by accessing the directory directly (if there is no index.html file). This will protect your files from exposing to the public.

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To password protect your website folder with shell command:-

- Create a file name .htaccess in the folder that you want to password protect with the content below:-

AuthName "Password Protect Directory"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /home/username/.htpasswd
<Limit GET POST PUT>
Require valid-user
</Limit>

- In shell type:-

htpasswd -c /home/username/.htpasswd your_desire_username

You will be prompt for a new password.
- Once you enter your password, file with name .htpasswd will be created at /home/username directory and now your website folder has been password protected
- Open your browser and try to access your password protected folder. It should now ask you to login now.

To password protect directory with CPanel Hosting Control Panel:-

• Login into your CPanel and click on Password Protect Directories
• Once you click on Password Protect Directories, you will see a list of directories
• Click on the directory that you wish to password protect
• Fill in a Username and Password at the bottom of the page, and click Add / modify authorized user
• Once user created successfully, just click “Go Back”
• Now, Check the Directory requires a password to access via the web
• Fill in Protected Resource Name, actually this is just the message that will show in the login window
• then, Highlight the user you just created from the Active Users list and click on Save button below the Protected Resource Name
• You are Done! The directory you just select has been protected by password.
• To ensure you directory has been password protected, launch you browser and visit the folder, if browser prompt you to login, your directory has been protected by password!

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To perform full backup in CPanel Hosting, just follow the steps below:-

1. Login into your CPanel with the username and password
2. Click on Backup
3. Click on Generate / Download a Full Backup
4. Select Home Directory in Backup Destination and enter your email address. others just leave blank and click Generate Backup
5. Done! You just perform a full backup in CPanel. You will received a notification email once the backup is done.
6. Once the backup is ready, you can FTP into your Account to download the backup file. CPanel locate your backup file in your root directory (/home/username/) and CPanel backup filename normally look like this:-
   backup-mm.dd.yyyy_hh-mm-ss_username.tar.gz

You also can FTP your full backup file to your another FTP server (if you have more than 1 server). Just enter the Remote Server (FTP / SCP) which is the IP or domain name, Remote User (FTP / SCP) and Remote Password (FTP / SCP) in the Generate Backup page before you hit Generate backup button, your Backup File will be transfer to the remote server.

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Many friends ask me how to create email account (ex: myname@mydomain.com) in CPanel Hosting. To create email account in CPanel hosting is just as easy as 123, here is the tutorial for create email account in CPanel Hosting.

Just follow the steps below and you will be able to create your email account in CPanel Hosting:-

1. Login into your CPanel with the username and password
2. Click on Mail
3. Click Manage / Add / Remove Email Account
4. Click on Add Account
5. Enter your prefer email address, password and the Email Quota for this email account and click on Create.
6. Done! You just create your email account in CPanel hosting

Update (4 Feb 2010):
If you are using CPanel 11, you need to follow this steps:-

• Login into your CPanel with the username and password
• Click on EMail Accounts
• Fill in the email you want, password, and mailbox quota and click “Create Account”
  
• Done! You just create your email account in CPanel hosting

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