CPanel
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- The correct title of this article is cPanel. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
| cPanel | ||
 Screenshot of cPanel |
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| Developer: | cPanel, Inc. | |
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| Latest STABLE build: | 10.9.0-S96 / 5 December 2006 | |
| Latest RELEASE build: | 10.9.0-R95 / 5 December 2006 | |
| Latest CURRENT build: | 10.9.0-C94 / 5 December 2006 | |
| Latest EDGE build: | 11.0-E529 / 25 October 2006 | |
| Latest DNSONLY build: | 10.8.2-D74 / 4 May 2006 | |
| Latest BETA build: | 10.9.0-B103 / 30 November 2006 | |
| Platform: | Linux, BSD | |
| Use: | Control Panel | |
| License: | Proprietary | |
| Website: | www.cpanel.net | |
cPanel (control panel) is a graphical web-based management tool, designed to make administration of web sites as easy as possible. cPanel handles all aspects of website administration in an easy-to-use interface. The software, which is proprietary, runs on a number of popular RPM-based Linux distributions, such as SUSE, Fedora, Mandriva, CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and cAos, as well as FreeBSD. Preliminary support for Debian is claimed, although this version has been in "beta" state for several years, and is not supported. cPanel is commonly accessed on ports 2082 and 2083 (for an SSL version). Authentication is either via HTTP or web page login.
It is designed for use by commercial web hosting services, so the company does not offer a reduced-cost personal use license; however, owners of non-profit organisations such as educational institutions and charities can request a license at no charge.
It is only available on Linux and BSD-based operating systems; Linux support is generally limited to distributions based directly or indirectly on Red Hat Linux, such as Fedora Core and CentOS. Support for Debian Linux has been in beta for several years. Versions for Solaris and Mac OS X were claimed to be under development for some time, but were later dropped from the list of supported operating systems.
The cPanel software is distributed by cPanel Inc.
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[edit] Features
To the client, cPanel provides front-ends for a number of common operations, including the management of PGP keys, crontab tasks, mail and FTP accounts, and mailing lists. Several add-ons exist, including Fantastico, a script which allows the automated installation of open source web applications such as phpBB.
Unlike some other web hosting control panels, cPanel manages some software packages separately from the underlying operating system, applying upgrades to Apache, PHP, MySQL, and related software packages automatically. This ensures that these packages are kept up-to-date and compatible with cPanel, but has become a cause for consternation to some, as it becomes difficult to easily install newer versions of these packages.
[edit] WHM (Web Host Manager)
WebHost Manager (WHM) is a web-based tool used by server administrators and resellers to manage hosting accounts on a web server. WHM listens on port 2086 by default.
As well as being accessible by the root admin, WHM is also accessible to users with reseller privileges. Reseller users of cPanel have a smaller set of features than the root user, generally limited to features which affect their customers' accounts rather than the server as a whole. From WHM, the server administrator can perform maintenance operations such as compile Apache and upgrade RPM's installed on the system
[edit] Versions
At any one time, four versions of cPanel are available:
[edit] EDGE
EDGE is the bleeding-edge version of cPanel. It contains all the newest features, but has not undergone much testing. EDGE is not normally used on production servers, although some people use it on development/testing systems.
[edit] CURRENT
CURRENT builds are like EDGE versions, except they've undergone testing in a production environment
[edit] RELEASE
RELEASE builds are the preferred builds to run. While they are quite stable, they don't contain the latest features. On a default installation of cPanel, the RELEASE build will be installed.
[edit] STABLE
STABLE builds are very stable, but don't contain the latest features or bug fixes. This build is normally not used, as it is usually too old to be useful.
The specific version numbers for the latest builds of cPanel can be found at http://layer1.cpanel.net/. Their change log can also be found on that page. It is important to note that changes propagate through their builds from EDGE to CURRENT to RELEASE to STABLE. New features can be found by looking at the EDGE changes which will later be pushed to the rest of the builds.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- cPanel Company Corporate Site
- cPanel Forums - Official cPanel forums
- cPanel Change Log
- cpWiki.org - a wiki about cPanel
- WebHostGear.com - cPanel Tutorials
- http://demo.cpanel.net:2086/ : WHM Live Demo : UserName : demo, Password : demo
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