{"id":1030,"date":"2024-12-04T07:48:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T07:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.trustedhosting.in\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2024-12-04T07:48:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T07:48:17","slug":"how-to-add-a-new-account-in-whm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/how-to-add-a-new-account-in-whm\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Add a New Account in WHM"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustedhosting.in\/cpanel-hosting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1039 size-full\" title=\"How to Add a New Account in WHM\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.trustedhosting.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/8269010_3842235.jpg\" alt=\"How to Add a New Account in WHM\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/8269010_3842235.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/8269010_3842235-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/8269010_3842235-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/8269010_3842235-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/8269010_3842235-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/8269010_3842235-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>How to Add a New Account in WHM<code class=\"docutils literal notranslate\"><\/code><\/h1>\n<p>Once you\u2019ve got your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustedhosting.in\/cpanel-hosting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WHM<\/a> server setup, you\u2019re going to want to add an Account. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustedhosting.in\/cpanel-hosting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WHM<\/a>, an Account can be thought of as a catch-all term for a domain and associated resources. When you add an Account, this creates:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"simple\">\n<li>A\u00a0<code class=\"docutils literal notranslate\"><span class=\"pre\">Virtual<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"pre\">Host<\/span><\/code>\u00a0for your domain.<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0<code class=\"docutils literal notranslate\"><span class=\"pre\">User<\/span><\/code>\u00a0for FTP \/ SFTP \/ SSH administration<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustedhosting.in\/cpanel-hosting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><code class=\"docutils literal notranslate\"><span class=\"pre\">Control<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"pre\">Panel<\/span><\/code><\/a>\u00a0for your domain, allowing for per user site administration (<em>email, subdomains, PHP settings etc.<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the homepage of WHM, you will see a section called \u201cManage Your Accounts\u201d, and a \u201cCreate a New Account\u201d button below that:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1032\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.trustedhosting.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/whm_homepage.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1575\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/whm_homepage.jpeg 1575w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/whm_homepage-300x167.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/whm_homepage-1024x570.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/whm_homepage-768x427.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/whm_homepage-1536x854.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1575px) 100vw, 1575px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This will present you with a page to fill in information regarding the account that you\u2019re adding. The top section is \u201cDomain Information\u201d. Fill in the relevant information for the account you\u2019re adding:<\/p>\n<div class=\"admonition warning\">\n<blockquote><p>Avoid adding a domain that is the same as the hostname of the server, as this will break many WHM services.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1033\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.trustedhosting.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/account_creation_domain_info-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/account_creation_domain_info-1.jpeg 641w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/account_creation_domain_info-1-300x222.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The next three sections can be left as the defaults:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1034\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.trustedhosting.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/account_creation_blanks.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/account_creation_blanks.jpeg 639w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/account_creation_blanks-274x300.jpeg 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the \u201cDNS Settings\u201d section, untick the box labelled \u201cEnable DKIM on this account\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1035\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.trustedhosting.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/account_creation_dns.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/account_creation_dns.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/account_creation_dns-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the final section, \u201cMail Routing Settings\u201d, choose the automatic configuration option, then you can click \u201cCreate\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1036\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.trustedhosting.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/account_creation_mail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/account_creation_mail.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/account_creation_mail-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve now added an account to WHM.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Add a New Account in WHM Once you\u2019ve got your WHM server setup, you\u2019re going to want to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whm-panel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}