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Domain Password
Your domain password is the password you use to log on to your CPanel. This is useful to occasionally do to maximize your site security. You should always change your password if you think someone else has access to your account.
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Error Pages
Error pages are served to Internet users when any one of a variety of errors occur, such as when a user enters an incorrect URL or is not authorized to access a specific directory in your web site. Companies often customize error pages to brand them with a specific corporate image and a link to their home page. You do not have to customize these pages - the error page is always available, whether customized or not.
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Subdomains
Subdomains are a way of creating separate accounts within your master account, which are accessed as separate URLs. For example, you could set up a "owls" subdomain on your master account "bird.com", which would be accessed as "owls.bird.com". A lot of larger businesses use subdomains to establish branding and focus on separate product lines, because a subdomain creates a separate URL and web presence. However, you do not create a new CPanel when you create a subdomain. You still perform most administration functions for the subdomain through your master CPanel.
Practically, a subdomain is a sub folder within the public_http level of your account that has it's own cgi-bin directory. The "owls" example above creates a new top-level folder called owls, with a cgi-bin sub-folder. Upload your files for the subdomain to this location, including a separate home file (such as index.html).
Currently you can not create email accounts with the subdomain extension. A work around for this is to create an account called "watching-owls@bird.com", or similar.
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Password Protect Directories
You can protect directories within your site from browsers by using a password to protect them. This allows you to restrict material to only authorized users or store sensitive material online. This has the same appearance and affect as the password protection on CPanel.
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File Manager
The File Manager allows you to manage your site through HTML, rather than an FTP tool or other third-party application. You can upload, create or delete files, organize files in folders, and change file permissions. While not as sophisticated as most FTP tools, File Manager is free and gives you all the basic functionality necessary to manage your site.
To open and navigate in File Manager:
1. Click on the File Manager link in the Domain Menu area.
2. Navigate by using the following:
- Open a folder by clicking on the folder icon.
- Go up a level by clicking on the Up one level link.
- Use the path links at the top of the window to move up and down the path.
- Select a folder, so as to view or modify its properties, by clicking on the folder name link.
Upload files
Delete a file or folder
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Backups
The Backup area allows you to download the daily backup file of your entire web site, or a particular MySQL, alias, or filter backup file. If your computer crashes, or your personal backups are destroyed, these files allow you to recover your site in a convenient manner (you could also use FTP to download each file - more control, but it would take longer).
Download a backup file
Restore a backup file
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