How to Login Securely to your cPanel Account using HTTPS?

cPanel is one of the widely used and offered Control Panel for Shared, VPS (Virtual Private Severs) and Dedicated Web hosting Servers.

Logging in securely into cPanel (using HTTPS) will be an added advantage, as the transfers between the server and user computer will be fully encrypted. Let’s check out in this post How to Login Securely into cPanel using HTTPS (Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol)?

Note: Almost all Web Hosting Providers make use of Dedicated/Shared SSL Certificates on their servers, so that the user can Login securely into their Web Hosting Control Panels (WHM, cPanel etc.). In case your Web Hosting provider has not installed a SSL certificate on your server, you can request/ask them to do so OR you may want to switch to some other popular Web Hosting Provider like HostGator

Login Securely into your cPanel Account using HTTPS:

Using Server IP Address

Your website is hosted on a Web Server which have an IP Address. This IP Address can be found either in the cPanel OR in the Welcome Email (which you got at the time of signing up) OR can be requested by opening a Support Ticket with your Web Hosting Provider.

You can use this IP Address to login securely to your cPanel Account. Here’s the URL you need to enter in your Browser:

https://YourSitesIPAddress:2083 E.g. https://208.43.230.554:2083

Using Server Name

Another way of logging in to your cPanel Account using HTTPS is by means of Server Name. The Server Name on which your Website is hosted can be found either in the cPanel itself OR in the Welcome Email (which you got at the time of signing up) OR can be requested by opening a Support Ticket with your Web Hosting Provider

You can use this Server Name to login securely to your cPanel Account. Here’s the URL you need to enter in your Browser:

https://ServerName:2083 OR https://SecureServerName:2083 E.g. https://gator1234.hostgator.com:2083

Either by using your Server IP Address or by using your Server Name, you can securely login to your cPanel Account using HTTPS, provided that your Web Hosting provider has already installed a Dedicated/Shared SSL on the server.

Additional Tip: Instead of logging in to your cPanel Account every time, if you prefer using Third Party FTP Clients for managing things in your account, than we highly recommend you to use WinSCP over other available FTP clients. For WinSCP, you need a secure port number for your Web Server which can be requested/asked from your Web Hosting Provider. For example, the secure port number for HostGator Shared Servers is 2222.

Category: Security