Category: WHM/CPanel/Reseller

A Record is a DNS record and is used to point a domain or subdomain to an IP address. You can add “A Record” using the cPanel”s Zone Editor option.

1. Log into your cPanel account. (eg: www.example.com/cPanel )
2. In the “Domains” section, click on the “Zone Editor” Icon.

Under “Domains“, you can see many options below the “Actions” text.

3. Click on “A Record” and a small window will pop open. Enter the required details in it.

Name: Enter the name you wish to add, for example, add “blog” and the cPanel will automatically add a domain name like blog.example.com.
Address: Enter the IP Address of the server.

Now click on the “Add an A Record” button.

If the record is added successfully, you will see a success message. The DNS propagation can take up to 24 hours.

Note: It may take anywhere from 12 to 24 hours for the changes to take effect worldwide.

Do you have a single domain or wish to use  different PHP version per folder? Do you have an installed PHP 5.x software in a folder/blog and want to use a PHP 7.x instead? If so, you can do this using cPanel and the .htaccess file.

1. Log into your cPanel account.
2. In the “Software” section, click on the “MultiPHP Manager” icon.

3. Assume that we are new to this and the first thing we will need to do is to get the code generated by cPanel.

4. Scroll down to the end of page, select your domain from the left side and you will see the option “PHP Version” with a drop-down list on the right side. Select the appropriate PHP version from the drop-down menu and click the Apply button.

5. Now open the /public_html/.htaccess file in the cPanel File Manager or in your FTP client and you will find the code generated by cPanel.

6. After you copy the code, you will wish to set the PHP version to version 7 in the folder/forum, which means you will need to create a .htaccess file in the folder /forum/ and paste the code which was generated in the previous step in it.

7. Congratulations, now your folder/forum uses PHP 7, and if you wish to set any other folder to use the same version of PHP as well, you will only need to copy the code from the .htaccess file and paste it into that folder.

Reset your PHP version from your main domain. If you wish to use a different PHP version on any folder, you will need to follow steps 5 and 6, generate the code, copy that code from /public_html/.htaccess and paste it into any folder where you wish to set your selected PHP version.

Do you have multiple domains and you wish to set the PHP version per domain? For example, you have the domains Example1 and Example2 and you want to set PHP7 on Example2 domain and PHP 5.6 on Example1. You will need to do this from the cPanel.

1. Log into your cPanel account.
2. In the “Software” section, click on the “MultiPHP Manager” Icon.

3. Scroll down to the end of page, select your domain from the left side and you will see the option “PHP Version” with a drop-down list on the right side. Select the appropriate PHP version from the drop-down menu and then click on Apply.

4. Now that you want to set PHP 5.6 on Example2, scroll down and select the example2 domain. Then set the PHP version to 5.6.

Congratulations, both of your domains use different different PHP versions now.

If you wish to reset the PHP version to the default version, follow these instructions:

1. Log into your cPanel account.
2. In the “Software” section, click on the “MultiPHP Manager” Icon.

3. Scroll down to the end of the page, select your domain from the left side and you will see the option “PHP Version” with a drop-down on the right side. Select the “inherit” option from the drop-down menu and click the Apply button.

If will take a few seconds, after which your PHP version will reset to the default version.

Some software requires older version of PHP like 5.6 while other asks for PHP7. If it happens you need either of the versions, you can switch to it from cPanel.

1. Log into your cPanel account.
2. In the “Software” section, click on the “MultiPHP Manager” Icon.

3. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, select your domain from the left side of the screen and you will see an option “PHP Version” with a drop-down menu on the right side. Select the appropriate PHP version from it and click the Apply button.

If will take a few seconds and then your PHP version will change to your selected version.

If you want to receive a cronjob error or notification, you can update your e-mail address from the cPanel’s Cronjob Page.

1. Log into your cPanel account.
2. In the “Advanced” section, click on “Cron Jobs” Icon.

3. Under “Cron Email” you should enter your full e-mail address in text field.

4. Click on the “Update Email” Button.

How to Edit Cronjob?
1. Log into your cPanel account.

2. In the “Advanced” section, click on “Cron Jobs” Icon.

3. Scroll down to the end of page and under “Current Cron Jobs“, locate your cronjob and then click on the “Edit” button.

4. Make appropriate changes and then click on the “Edit Line” button.

How to Delete Cronjob?
1. Under “Current Cron Jobs“, locate your cronjob and then click on “Delete” button
2. Under “Delete this cron job?” text, click the “Delete” Button.

1. Log into your cPanel account.
2. In the “Advanced” section, click on “Cron Jobs” Icon.

3. Under “Add New Cron Job“, click on the “Common Settings” dropdown menu and select an appropriate option such as “Once Per Day” or another suitable option.

4. Enter your cronjob php file location or the command you want to run in the Command field.

5. Click on the “Add New Cron Job” button.

If you are receiving a disk space usage warning and don’t know which folder is using too much space from cPanel.

1. Log into your cPanel account.
2. In the “Files” section, click on “Disk Space Usage” Icon.

3. In Disk Space Usage area you can see which folder/directory is using too much space and you can even check the disk usage of MySQL.

How to check Bandwidth Usage?
1. In the “Metrics” section, click on “Bandwidth” Icon.

2. Now you can see bandwidth usage of your domain.

How to check the usage of bandwidth, email accounts, mysql, etc from a single place?
1. Go to your cPanel’s main page.
2. On the left side of the cPanel, click on the “Statistics” icon. It will show the total bandwidth usage, mysql, email account limit, etc.

1.Log into your cPanel account.
2. In the “Files” section, click on “File Manger” Icon.

3. cPanel File Manager will be open, select the appropriate domain name or folder location, and press the “Go” button.

4. Navigate to the directory where your .htaccess file is located. If you want to edit the .htaccess file of your root directory, navigate to the public_html folder.

5. If the .htaccess file does not show, click on the “Settings” button in the File Manager. You can find the “Settings” button on the Right Side of the top menu. A new small window will open. Mark the “Show Hidden Files (Dotfiles)” option and click on the “Save” button. You will be able to see the .htaccess file. If it does not exist, create a new one.

5. Right click on the .htaccess file and then on “Edit” or “Code Edit” in the Context Menu.

6. If the small “Code Editor” window is open, click on the “Edit” button, which will open a new window with options you can edit.

7. Make changes to your .htaccess file and then click on the “Save Changes” button.