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cPanel Home
cPanel Quick Starts
Creating a new account
Logging in to cPanel
Creating web sites on cPanel
Simple one page site
WordPress
Drupal
Advanced Drupal
Update with Softaculous
Dreamweaver
Working with Files
Embedding Box folders
Embedding Mediaspace videos
Including files from Box
Installing software with SSH
Installing AWS Command Line
How to Get a Custom Domain
Getting Access and Sharing Permissions
Using Shibboleth
Using Active Directory
Using campus IP addresses to restrict access
SSH, SCP, SFTP
Backup and Restore
Advanced: Programming, databases, and more
Python
Create a MySQL Database
Manage a MySQL Database
Getting Started with Web Stats
Using Cron
Git Integration
How to Host a NodeJS Application
For Class Instructors
For Class Students
Understanding cPanel
Comparing Illinois and other cPanel instances
Frequently Asked Questions
Known Issues
Error logging in with Safari
Softaculous mail messages marked as spam
My web site isn't displaying
'An installation already exists' error
Who can have a website on web.illinois.edu?
What domain names can I use? What domain names can't I use?
Can websites be maintained after an owner leaves the University?
What security considerations are my responsibility as a cPanel website owner?
cPanel is not approved for FERPA / HIPAA data
What IP address will be assigned to cPanel-hosted websites?
Policies
Risk Level Assessment
Training Handouts (wiki)
cPanel is the control system that lets you manage websites and databases hosted on the web.illinois.edu platform. cPanel offers a wide range of web hosting options to students, faculty, and staff, as well as offering easy collaboration with non-University partners through Google authentication.
Hosting your website at web.illinois.edu offers more flexibility and power than publish.illinois.edu, while also offering automatic updates with less complexity than direct hosting on AWS or Azure.
By using cPanel's one-click installers for WordPress, Drupal, jQuery, PHP, Ruby, and more, your web software will be easy to install and configure, and the cPanel-managed software will be automatically patched and updated for you, reducing security and maintenance concerns.
If you need additional custom software, you can also install your own via SSH / SFTP; however, you'll need to ensure patching and maintenance of your custom software.
Creating an account on cPanel
In order to create an account on cPanel, you need to be a current member of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with an @illinois.edu email address.
Visit
go.illinois.edu/cPanelCreate
to make a new account. See
cPanel, Creating a new account
for more details.
Logging in to your cPanel account
You can log in to your cPanel account either from the
web.illinois.edu
home page or from
go.illinois.edu/cPanelLogin
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign users should choose the
blue Campus Login
button.
Use your NetID@illinois.edu identity and NetID password to log in.
People from other institutions who have arranged to partner with an Urbana campus person on a cPanel-hosted site should choose the
orange External Contributors
button.
Use the Google account you provided to your campus partner when arranging for access to that cPanel site.
Once you've logged in, you'll see your cPanel dashboard, where you can create and manage websites in your domain.
More information
Use the menu above to navigate campus-specific cPanel documentation.
cPanel's own documentation is available from
docs.cpanel.net/cpanel
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Created:
2018-06-01
Updated:
2025-10-06
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