Getting Started
Before you can create the redirect itself, there are two things you need to make sure are turned on in your Apache install. The first of these is something called Mod Rewrite. To turn this one on, simply:
• Open your Apache configuration file (httpd.conf) in a text editor of some sort
• Look for a line that says LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
• If it’s already there, you’re done with the httpd.conf file
• If the line does not exist, just add it to your configuration file
Once Mod Rewrite is turned on, you need to check one other thing before you can create your redirect page. Close your configuration file and look for another file, this one titled .htaccess. The .htaccess file is usually in your server’s root directory. If you don’t already have one, you can create a blank file and rename it .htaccess. You will need .htaccess to make the 301 permanent redirect work, so you will have to create one in any case.
In the .htaccess file you are going to look for a line that says:
• RewriteEngine ON
• If you don’t see this, add it to the file
Now you’re ready to redirect some web pages!

How to implement a 301 Redirect
One of the most useful things about the 301 permanent redirect is that it can be used in a variety of situations. You can redirect a single web page, leave the page names the same but change the directory name, redirect pages and directories, or flat-out move your entire existing website to a new domain. Regardless of how you use the 301 permanent redirect, you’ll need to keep that .htaccess file open—that’s where you’ll be making all your changes to put the redirect into effect.
Simply find the type of permanent redirect you need in the list below and put the code a few lines below where you added the Rewrite Engine code, and you should be in business.

Redirect Types and Code
• Redirecting a single page:
Redirect 301 /originalURL.html http://www.mysite.com/newURL.html
(note that this all goes on one line)
• Adding WWW to the front of your URL:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^WebSiteURL.net
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.WebSiteURL.net/$1 [R=301,L]
(two lines of code)
• Deleting an old directory and redirecting to a different one:
redirectMatch 301 ^/photocopies/ http://www.WebSiteURL.net/oldpages/
(one line of code)
Note that you can also redirect to a single page instead of a new directory:
redirectMatch 301 ^/photocopies/ http://www.WebSiteURL.net/scans.html
(again, one line of code)
• Changing the name of a directory to something else:
redirect 301 /photocopies/ http://www.mysite.com/scannedimages/
(one line of code)

Changes to your .htaccess file take place instantly, so after you’ve added a rule, save the file and refresh to page to make sure it’s worked. Those annoying 404 pages are gone forever!

Spam Assassin is based on Perl. It filters all types of spam messages by obeying a very large set of rules. However, it is possible to configure Spam Assassin. It can be configured in order to determine whether or not certain types of mail or spam or not. You can configure Spam Assassin to determine whether e-mails are spam by looking at the subject, the body, and the “from” fields in the message. Other techniques to configure Spam Assassin through CPanel include blacklist and white list. You can also automatically delete spam messages or automatically send suspected spam messages to a different folder.

Using Spam Assassin with CPanel

You can access Spam Assassin through your CPanel account by going to the home page of your CPanel account. Once you have done this, you need to click on the icon labeled as “SpamAssassin.” Then go to mail. Click on the icon labeled “enable spamassassin.” Once you have clicked on this icon, you will receive a confirmation message. After you have enabled Spam Assassin, simply click on the “go back” icon. You can now configure Spam Assassin to your liking.

How to Configure Spam Assassin through CPanel

Configuring Spam Assassin through your CPanel account is a simple process. However, it can become overwhelming. This is mainly because there are so many available options for you. For example, if you want all of the e-mail messages that are identified as spam to go into the spam folder, you hit the icon labeled as “enable spam box.” This is not where all of the Spam Assassin configuring takes place. After you hit this icon, you can click on “go back.” You will be brought to a page where you should see an icon that is labeled “configure spamassassin.” Clicking on this icon will allow you to change how aggressive Spam Assassin is when examining your e-mail. You can decide what e-mails you actually receive and what e-mails are automatically deleted.

When you are trying to configure your Spam Assassin account, you should keep in mind that Spam Assassin scores every e-mail on a plane of one to ten. The higher the e-mail’s score is, the higher the chance is of the e-mail being spam. You can make a setting of one through ten for Spam Assassin. This will determine how thorough Spam Assassin is when examining e-mail. A setting of five or six usually gives you optimum performance. When Spam Assassin is rated at six, all e-mails that are rated at six or more will be automatically deleted or automatically sent to your Spam box. If you set Spam Assassin at a higher setting, you are decreasing the chance of receiving an e-mail that could potentially be spam. This means that almost all of your e-mails will be useful in some way or another.

Available Spam Assassin Configurations

Many options allow you to configure Spam Assassin. For example, “Required Score” allows you to say that all e-mails scored at a certain number is automatically spam. The default setting is five.

“Rewrite Header Subject” allows you to add text to the subject line if an e-mail is marked as spam.

“Blacklist From” is a feature that allows you to enter e-mail addresses that will always be marked as spam. “White List From” is a feature that allows you to enter e-mail addresses that will never be marked as spam.

These available Spam Assassin configurations are designed to allow you to create a Spam Assassin program that works specifically for your needs. Once you understand how Spam Assassin works, it is easy for you to make it do what you want it to do.

CPanel is a web hosting control panel that provides automation tools to simplify web hosting applications. It has a very user – friendly graphical user interface (GUI). All administration is done through a standard web browser, which makes it extremely portable. There is no need to install any software on your computer.

One of the features that can be easily done in cPanel is setting up your emails. This is fairly simple to do since everything in cPanel is just point and click. The following are detailed steps on how to set up email accounts on cPanel:

1. Log on to your cPanel account. Your web hosting provider should have given you the web address (URL) for the cPanel login page, usually this is http://your-domain-name/cpanel.

2. Click on the “Email Accounts” icon.

3. On the Email field, type in an email address. If you have add-on domains or sub-domains on your cPanel, there will be a drop down box where you can select which one you want to use. If you only have a single domain, it will default to that domain.

4. On the Password fields, type in your desired password. Make sure you create strong passwords. Accounts can be compromised if you use weak passwords. It is a good practice to include capital letters, numbers and punctuations. The cPanel interface actually has a password strength indicator that can tell you if your password is strong enough.

5. On the Mailbox Quota field, you can set how much disk space is allocated for this email address, or you can set it to unlimited. Note that attachments on emails also take up space.

6. Click “Create Account”.

That’s it. You have just created an email account. Just repeat the above steps to create another account. The email accounts that you make will be listed below the account creation part of the interface. You can do individual email account management on this part, like resetting a password, changing disk quota and deleting the account.

There is a default email account that comes with your cPanel. It is not possible to delete this account and it has no quota. It is used by the system to catch mail that is un-routed. The username and password of the default account is the same as your cPanel account login.

There are also other email functions that you can configure on cPanel. You can set forwarders for your email accounts. Forwarders are used if you want emails to a particular address to be forwarded to another email account. You can specify any valid email account to forward to. You can also set autoresponders. Autoresponders are used to automatically send response messages. This is especially useful in cases where the recipient is temporarily unavailable. You can create an autoresponder informing the sender that the user of that particular email address is unavailable.

Your hosting provider may incorporate spam protection for your emails. SpamAssassin is usually used for this purpose. SpamAssassin is an automated spam filtering system. It attempts to identify spam emails based on the content of the email’s headers and body. You can set the sensitivity of the filter and put email addresses on black or white lists. The emails that you put on the white list will always arrive in your inbox and will never be filtered by SpamAssassin. The ones you put on the black list, on the other hand, will always be blocked. You also have the option to turn this system off.

Email set-up and administration is an important part of being a webmaster. Websites and emails often go hand in hand. Thankfully, cPanel makes the task of web and email administration straightforward and easy. You no longer need to deal with command line texts to configure web and email properties in your hosting account.