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webDeveloperDave
webDeveloperDave

Reputation: 83

How do I execute PHP on a cPanel server?

I have a LAMP application that works. I can deploy this in 15 minutes on a Linux server. I was handed a VPS to deploy it. All I get is WHM. I created an account and that got me a login to cPanel and to the box. cPanel ran some wizard that told me to put my "web source files" in /public_html There is an /cgi-bin inside of that. I cannot get any web assets to be visible from any of those folders. All I get is 404 not found. chmod 777. 404 not found.

My simple question is this: how could I get a simple hello world PHP script to run on a cPanel server? I've been building web pages since before we called them web pages. I do not need to know anything about PHP itself I want to know how to get the cPanel managed server to run PHP scripts. All the documentation I can find on cPanel assumes you've been using it forever. I just need some basic information. Where do I put my PHP code ?????

Upvotes: 0

Views: 11833

Answers (1)

Kailash Aghera
Kailash Aghera

Reputation: 549

This is the way cPanel works. If you host your website on shared IP address (main IP address of your server), you cannot access your website using IP address directly. You will always redirect to "http://IP/cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi URL.

To access your website without pointing our domain to your server, you can use temporary URL. By default, it is enabled on the cPanel server. You can access the temporary URL using the following URL:

http://IP/~cpanel_user

Please note that the temporary URL does not work under the following configuration:

  • If you have enabled mod_userdir tweak and didn't exclude default host
  • If your server is configured to use mod_ruid2

Hope this information will help you with future use.

Upvotes: 2

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