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This tutorial will show you how to add a database in cPanel. This is useful for manually installing content management systems, blogging softwares, and any other scripts that rely on a database to function. (Basically anything that uses PHP) Let’s get started…

1.) Log in to your cPanel Hosting account. To access cPanel you should navigate to either http://cpanel.mywebsite.com or http://mywebsite.com:2082 (Note: You will need to replace “mywebsite.com” with your domain name and extension, this is normally .com)

2.) Once logged in, look on the right hand side for a box similar to the one below. Click on MySQL Database Wizard.

3.) This is the easiest way to create a database as all you really have to do is fill in the fields and it does the rest of the work for you. As seen in the first screen shot, you will need to choose a database name, on the second screen you will need to choose a user name, and password. Then on the third you will need to select the permissions your user will have to the database specified in step one.

(Note: When entering the database name and user name into your script such as Joomla! remember that your cPanel user name with an underscore will precede the database name and user name for the database. e.x. If your database and user name are both “test” and your cPanel user name is “testing” then your full database and user name will be “testing_test”)

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This tutorial will show you how to add an email address to your cPanel web hosting account.

1.) Log in to your cPanel Hosting account. To access cPanel you should navigate to either http://cpanel.mywebsite.com or http://mywebsite.com:2082 (Note: You will need to replace “mywebsite.com” with your domain name and extension, this is normally .com)

2.) Once logged in, look on the right hand side for a box similar to the one below. Click on Email Accounts.

3.) Here is where you will add your email address. type the username you want into the box next to the word “Email,” either type a password and confirm it or click on the generate password to have a random one made, and set the quota to your desired limit. The default of 250mb in my opinion is more than enough for a regular email address. Once completed it should look similar to the screen shot below.

4.) Click create and it will be added to the list of email addresses below.

(Note: If you look to the right of an email address in the list you will see four icons. Delete account (its pretty obvious what that does), Change quota (this will let you change how much space the mail box is allotted), Change Password (also obvious and equally useful), and Configure Mail Client which will show how to configure Microsoft Outlook and other mail clients. The icons are shown below.

5.) If you like this tutorial please leave a comment. Thanks!