cPanel Login on Site

[mhearn]

Does anyone have a cPanel login for current customers on their site? If so, what sort of backend logic was used for the form? Was it a simple redirect to the cpanel url with login info?

[Express]

Hello,

I don't have one on oursite however you can just add:

<form method="post" action="http://www.yourdomainname.com:2082/login/">

So it would be something like this

<form method="post" action="http://www.yourdomainname.com:2082/login/">
<table>
<tr>
<td>Username</td>
<td><input size="16" name="user"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Password</td>
<td>
<input type="password" size="16" value name="pass">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colSpan="2">
<div align="right">
<input type="submit" value="Login">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

[Express]

Don't forget to replace

yourdomainname.com

With your real domain name

[Ace]

Nice! I may have to use that. I'm currently just using a subdomain as a redirect.

What about security though?

[FoxRocks]

Wait...wouldn't that only work for whatever you set "yourdomainname.com" to? so you would have a nice username and password field there, but you couldn't have it for several different clients. Now maybe I'm mistaken, but I thought Ace wanted his clients to be able to go to his site and login to their cpanel. So for that you would want them to be able to enter the field for their domain. A simple way to have a login would just be:

<a href="/cpanel">Login</a>

I use it for webmail on all my clients sites.

<a href="/webmail">Webmail</a>

then they just click on webmail or login and the browser opens a login screen for you (usually a pop up). I like it this way because it's not so obvious for the general public, you can easily hide it at the bottom of the page, where as of you had a username and password field some people might try to use it.

As for security it's only as good as your password.

After reading this post I thought, hey that would be cool to have a simple login form on your hosting site for your clients to be able to login to their cpanel, this way it keeps that stuff off their site and keeps it looking clean.

Interesting

~FOX~

[FoxRocks]

btw Mhearn your cpanel demo link is broken...I wanted to try it out