Learn cPanel

A customer contacted me today inquiring on how they can change the default Apache success page that they get when they type in their hostname.   After searching cPanel.net’s documentation, I came to realize that it’s not documented there, nor hardly anywhere else.

Luckily, this is a pretty easy process to do!

First, you’ll need to log into your server via root SSH.

Navigate to Apache’s default directory (99% of the time it’s called ‘htdocs’):

cd /usr/local/apache/htdocs

You’ll edit the page ‘index.html’ with your favorite text editor:
vi index.html

The options of pages placed in this directory are endless. You can even setup scripts, blogs, forums, and anything else you want there!