hello I have two small Cpanel questions


I have Cpanel on a machine working and everything i want to know if this is possible.


1st Question: If i have a Domain And want to sponsor Teams/Clans with subdomains Can i give them FTP Access And Cpanel for the Subdomain? So that i can set restrictions? Like bandwidth usage and megs of space for the subdomain?


2nd Question: Say a person wants webhosting/ftp access but they do-not have a domain

Is it possible to setup a Cpanel account without a domain and they can still have a page? like to post downloads ( i dont know how to explain this)


Thanks very much.

For the first question, if you want to set them up with a completely seperate account then add the account with domain name as : subdomain.yourdomain.com and then with your domain name registrar set up a new A name record to point the sub domain at your servers IP.

Im not sure if cpanel lets you add an account without a domain, but you could always use a domain that does not exist, it wont make a difference - But they can view their site using http://www.yourdomain.com/~username and they can use ftp.yourdomain.com etc

Originally posted by SethEffectz
hello I have two small Cpanel questions


I have Cpanel on a machine working and everything i want to know if this is possible.


1st Question: If i have a Domain And want to sponsor Teams/Clans with subdomains Can i give them FTP Access And Cpanel for the Subdomain? So that i can set restrictions? Like bandwidth usage and megs of space for the subdomain?


2nd Question: Say a person wants webhosting/ftp access but they do-not have a domain

Is it possible to setup a Cpanel account without a domain and they can still have a page? like to post downloads ( i dont know how to explain this)


Thanks very much.

I think you explained it just fine.

1st) You can give them FTP access with a SubDomain but a SubDomain cannot have it's own control panel. It is managed by the Top Level domains control panel.

2nd) No problem. This is probably the solution to the question you face... You can create cpanel accounts that have all the features of a regular "domain name" account without the domain name. Just use the IP address to ftp or access the cpanel. On a shared IP it would be http://ipaddress/~username/ <-- note the trailing slash. You can ftp to the IP like I said and just change the username and password and the server will direct you to the proper account. To access the cpanel for the accounts you just use the IP plus the port number. Best to use the secure login. Example: https://IPaddress:2087 then the server will guide you based on the username and password you enter.

So yes, you can do what you want to do, and it's fairly easy. If you need ideas on how to control these groups or manage and identify them, let me know, I can help you out.


And yes, you can use non-existent domains to setup accounts in cpanel. Example: usernumber3.com

BE CAREFUL using the WHM to add subdomains as top level domains as suggested in the post above mine (nothing personal). This often causes an error in your httpd.conf file. Sooner or later it will. I have even seen it run fine until you use the cpanel move tool to transfer a subdomain that was created this way to another server. The httpd.conf file seems to cut off the rest of the subdomain leaving it with entrys like domain.domain. Then apache wont start and unless you know to go to the logs your down until you can find an admin to fix it for you.

Use the end user cpanel to create subdomains as was intended by cpanel's author. Dont use the WHM to add them as TLD's