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Default Index Page on New Accounts



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By : ramprage Rating : Average Rating : 7.69 From 16 Voter(s)

With this addon clients will have a default index.html page when they visit their new account instead of a directory listing. Useful information to put in this index.html page would include a link to your help desk, contact information, tutorial or any FAQ links you may have to help the client get started.

1. Create the Index Page
Take a few minutes and design a friendly html document that new visitors will see when they first get their hosting account setup. Once you're done creating the document, save it as index.html

2. Upload the Document
FTP to your server and upload the index.html file to the /cpanel3-skel/public_html  directory

The reseller has a username, and the home directory is in: /home/username/ so the directory you want would be in: /home/username/cpanel3-skel/public_html  copy the index.html there.

3. Create a Test Account
Login to your WHM and create a temporary user account. Once the account is create then visit it and see if your index page shows up. If it doesn't ensure you copied it into the proper directory and check the above steps.

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Jake Norton
Well done on this tutorial, it really helped me :D!
Smith
hello ..

thanks alot great post but how can i upload the file ??

please help ..

regards
man5t
How can i upload "index.html" to
/cpanel3-skel/public_html ?

Using FTP can't login to root .

Thanks for help
r|cKy
Using SSH to upload your file.
Tan
Can someone please give details of how to upload a file into /cpanel3-skel/public_html via SSH. I can't ftp into the root.
CAESAR
Thanks a lot.

I think only resellers can FTP to
/home/username/cpanel3-skel/public_html
Nedal_tarout
you can use wget to recive a file form any site after your uploded ...

1- uplode index.html in any site via using ftp .
2- use wget www.domin.com/index.html
3- done .

4- say thansk to nedal :)

bye
Dmitry Dovidenko
You can also use SCP if you use Linux to transfer the file:

cd /home/wherever/

scp someimage.jpg root@someserver.com:/home/someuser/cpanel3-skel/
PHPSugar.com
If you're using SSH please CD to /root/cpanel3-skel/public_html

You'll be able to create or modify your existing index.html

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