File Manager
Upload, edit and organise your website files. Everything the public sees lives inside public_html.
Your space is live
Welcome, Malak.
Welcome, Malak.
This server is yours now.
If you can read this page, everything is working: your cPanel account is created, your domain is pointing here, and this file is being served from your own hosting space.
This page is only a placeholder. Your first real task is simple — replace it with something you built yourself.
What you can do from here
cPanel looks crowded at first. In practice you will spend most of your time in these six places.
MySQL Databases
Create a database, create a user, then attach the user to the database. Three steps, always in that order.
Email Accounts
Create professional addresses on your domain and read them in webmail or in your mail client.
Subdomains
Give each experiment its own address, such as a test area, without touching your main site.
SSL / TLS
Issue a free certificate so your site loads over HTTPS. Never ship a live site without it.
FTP & Backups
Connect with FileZilla for larger uploads, and take a full backup before every risky change.
Your first steps
Work through these in order. Each one takes a few minutes and teaches something you will use on every project.
Log in and change your password
Open cPanel with the credentials you were given, then set your own password straight away. Store it in a password manager, never in a text file on the desktop.
Explore the File Manager
Find public_html and locate this exact file, index.html. Understanding that a URL maps to a real file on a real disk is the whole idea behind hosting.
Edit this page and break it on purpose
Change the heading to your own words, save, refresh the browser. Then undo it. Fast feedback loops are how you learn quickest.
Create your first database
Use MySQL Database Wizard: database, user, privileges. Write the three names down — you will need them the moment you install any CMS.
Enable SSL and check the padlock
Issue the free certificate, then load your domain with https://. A missing padlock is the first thing a client will notice.
Publish something of your own
Replace this placeholder with a small page you wrote from scratch. That is the moment this space stops being a demo and starts being your portfolio.
Know your folders
Four names cover almost everything you will touch in the first weeks.
| Location | What it is for |
|---|---|
public_html | The public root of your website. Anything placed here is reachable from the browser. |
public_html/index.html | The default page served when someone opens your domain — this file. |
/logs | Access and error logs. Your first stop whenever something behaves strangely. |
/tmp and backups | Temporary files and account backups. Keep this area tidy so you do not fill your disk quota. |
One rule before anything else: take a backup before you delete, move or overwrite files. Hosting is unforgiving — there is no undo button in the File Manager.
When you get stuck
Ask early. A question that takes two minutes to answer is always cheaper than half a day spent guessing. Read the error message first, then reach out with what you already tried.
Keep a notes file of every command, setting and mistake. By the end of the internship it will be more useful than any tutorial.