What is cPanel?
cPanel is a web hosting control panel. From it you manage your site's files, databases, email accounts and domains.
There are a lot of cPanel types because every hosting provider is different.
How To Access Your cPanel Dashboard?
Assuming your host uses cPanel, your host should provide you with a direct link to access cPanel somewhere in your welcome emails. But if you can't find that link, here's a shortcut to access your site's cPanel dashboard:
Use the third one where you can. Port 2082 is the unencrypted port and 2083 is the encrypted one, and you are about to type a password that gives access to every file on your site.
If none of the three loads, your host probably does not use cPanel. Plesk, DirectAdmin, hPanel and a good many host-built dashboards are common, and the account link in your welcome email is the way in. The tasks these docs send you to a control panel for exist in all of them, under different names.
Where is your cPanel information?
You should have received your cPanel username and password from your hosting provider, usually in the set of welcome emails you received immediately after signing up.
If you can't find your username and password, we recommend contacting your host's support for help as the process to find that information varies between hosts.
What you will use it for in these docs
Four things, so you know what you are looking for when you get there.
| Task | Where in cPanel | Why you would be there |
|---|---|---|
Reaching public_html | File Manager, under Files | Editing .htaccess or wp-config.php, or uploading a theme zip by hand |
| Creating an FTP login | FTP Accounts, under Files | The host, username and password FileZilla asks for |
| Raising PHP limits | MultiPHP INI Editor or Select PHP Version, under Software | The values in Configuring Server Settings, set as fields instead of files |
| Reading or exporting the database | phpMyAdmin, under Databases | A manual backup, or a search and replace after moving domain |
Foxiz itself never needs cPanel. Installing the theme, importing a demo and setting Theme Options all happen inside WordPress. You come here when WordPress cannot reach something: a PHP limit your host sets, a file WordPress will not write, or a login you have lost.
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