Customizing the URL for CP servers

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The template variables page enables you to customize the URL your customers go to when they access their control panels. For example, if you are a reseller, you might want your customers to see a URL related to your business name instead of the URL set up by your service provider. For example, you might want your organization users to see a URL related to your organization instead of the URL set up by your service provider. You could change that URL as described in this topic.

Customers and users receive the URL in the new reseller, new organization, and new user email messages. These messages sent automatically when accounts are created. By default, the URL is chosen by your service provider or reseller. By default, the URL is chosen by your service provider or reseller.

To customize the control panel URL:

  1. Register the domain name you want to use as the control panel URL. Contact a domain name registrar for details.

  2. Set the DNS entries for the domain name so that it points to the external name of the control panel server. For resellers and organization administrators, this is the URL you received when your account was created.

  3. Go to the template variables page.

Information on this page

  1. Choose the Custom Login URLs option, then, in the text box, type the domain name you want to use.

  2. Click save.

The template begins using the custom URL for the $CPServers variable immediately.

How to get to the template variables page

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