How to protect wp-admin folder yourself: 1. Log on to cPanel 2. From menu File Manager -> search for folder you want to protect with additional password, make a mouse right button click on this folder and choose “Password Protect” from the drop down menu 3. Enter: β Secure area name β Secure area username βΒ Secure area password (NB! Recommended password is 20 char long, […]
To detect malware on the website, there is a tool in cPanel called imunify AV+. With this tool, you can scan files in your web hosting account and identify the files that contain malware. To scan files, open the imunifyAV+ menu in the cPanel interface, and then click the “Start scanning” button: In the next window, select “YES, START SCAN”: ImunifyAV+ will then start scanning […]
For analyzing a website there is a tool in the cPanel interface called X-Ray App, which makes analyzing very easy. Open X-Ray App menu in the cPanel interface and click the “Start tracing” button to analyze a webpage: In the “Start tracing” window that opens, you can make the following options: URL: from the drop-down menu select the domain in your account, which webpage you […]
Enter cPanel environment. In cPanel choose “Two-Factor Authentication” under “SECURITY”: Next click on the “Set Up Two-Factor Authentication” button: Next you need to scan the QR code. To do that, you need to install Google Authenticator app on your mobile device. You can install Google Authenticator for an Android device via Google Play and for an iOS (Apple) device via the App Store. […]
In short: no, changing service provider will not solve the situation if your website is infected with malware. If you continue to use the same, outdated, and vulnerable website software with another provider, the website will be hacked again and the malware will be added to your web hosting account again. This is in case the website is cleaned from malware when changing service provider. […]
FTP user accounts can be added from cPanel under FILES menu – FTP accounts. The cPanel main username also acts as the FTP username. In addition, FTP accounts can be created in the PREFERENCES – User Manager menu. You can also grant FTP or Webdisk user rights to existing e-mail addresses. (In User Manager, you can assign another alternate contact email (such as Gmail) to […]
1. phpMyAdmin via cPanel phpmyadmin is usable out-of-box on cPanel servers β cPanel -> DATABASES -> phpMyAdmin NB! That requires cPanel account credentials! (Does not work with MySQL user credentials/DB credentials!) 2. Access to MySQL database via Adminier (or thru other 3rd party software written in PHP β that could be uploaded to webhosting account) Adminier is so-called lightweight one-file application written in PHP. […]
There is free Comodo AutoSSL possibility on all our cPanel servers (which is also auto-activated upon adding new domain/account to server). To check if under Your cpanel account for Your domain, AutoSSL has been activated, log on to Your cPanel account and check under SSL/TLS status. SSL/TLS status page shows auto-protected domains/subdomains with green circle and unprotected ones with red circle. Possible issues and […]
Although there is “possibility” to allow external MySQL client connections to hostingaccounts under our cPanel server services, those are blocked on server level by default! However there is workaround to still use external connections for MySQL:
In last years, we have seen many spam attempts on older CMS (Content Management Systems) (where during βattackβ/spam spree, automated spambots will generate up to 5000 spam e-mails) Statistically most vulnerable are old and not updated WordPress and Joomla (2.5 and lower) CMSβes. What to do if/when Your website is used for spamming: βΒ As we have constantly reminded in our notification e-mails, KB pages here […]