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Creating subdomains for your web site is very easy when your hosting provides you with cPanel, subject of course to any limits placed on you by your hosting provider. You simply need to define the new subdomain that you want to create and the folder you want it to point to in order to set up each new subdomain. This tutorial takes you through it step by step.

Creating a Sub-Domain using cPanel

Unless you are a professional web developer and designer all rolled into one, there will be occasions where you will want someone else to do some work on your site for you. In some cases you may be able to get them to do the work for you, send you the files, and upload them yourself. Other times, particularly if you have little knowledge of how the web works you will need to give them access to upload the files for you. You wont want to give them access to everything in your hosting account.

The solution to this is to set up an FTP account for them on your hosting that gives them access only to the folder that they need access to in order to upload the files. This doesn’t negate the need to make sure you give the job to someone you can trust but it does help limit the damage they can do if it turns out that they made a mistake. Besides which any legitimate developer or designer will not want access to any more than is necessary to do the job. If something breaks in an area they don’t have access to then there isn’t even a possibility that they could be considered responsible.

Limited FTP Accounts with cPanel

To use most server side scripts you need a database. How you actually set up your database depends on what hosting you have. If your host only provides you with one database they may have set it up for you already.

If you have to set up your own database and your hosting uses cPanel then there is a simple wizard tool available to help you set up your database. This short tutorial shows you how to use it.

Creating a Database Using cPanel