How to replace IP in cPanel WHM URL with host domain name?

petenorris

• July 24, 2023 12:04

Hello Forum; Question: How do I replace the IP in the cPanel WHM URL with the host domain name? At the present I am setting up a new cPanel account. I am using the host domain name for the nameservers like below: ns1.mysecurename.com ns2.mysecurename.com ns3.mysecurename.com ns4.mysecurename.com I need to replace the IP address in the URL with another domain name, preferably mysecurename.com, like shown below. At the present I do not have any secure sites configured on my server. Thank you in advance.

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • July 24, 2023 18:42

  Hey there! You could use the hostname of the server, which should already be configured when the server was created, although you may want to change it to something more personal to your system:

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  petenorris

  • July 24, 2023 20:03

  The hostname is in place. Assigning or changing the hostname was about the first thing that I did.

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • July 25, 2023 11:49

  You can update the redirection option in WHM >> Tweak Settings to always go to the hostname:

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  petenorris

  • July 25, 2023 15:02

  I don't think that a redirect would help. Question: Does the host domain name need to have an account under Home/SSL/TLS/Manage SSL Hosts?

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • July 25, 2023 15:08

  I have a few thoughts. First of all a single domain is not the hostname. cPanel requires the hostname to be a fully-qualified domain, such as host.domain.com or server1.domain.com. Just "domain.com" is not a valid hostname. Yes, it is normal for the domain (just the domain.com portion, not the full hostname) to be in Manage SSL Hosts. What issue is leading you to see the IP instead of the hostname in the browser? How are you getting to that point? I think that's what we need to know first before we can recommend anything.

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  petenorris

  • July 25, 2023 17:06

  I got it figured out. Thank you.

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • July 25, 2023 17:07

  What was the solution you found?

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  petenorris

  • July 25, 2023 17:12

  I needed to put the subdomain name before the tld domain name like so:

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • July 25, 2023 17:14

  I'm glad that's all it was!

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