{"id":1293,"date":"2020-06-05T00:30:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T16:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=1293"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:29:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T01:29:19","slug":"whm-initial-setup-guide","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/whm-initial-setup-guide","title":{"rendered":"WHM \u2013 Initial Setup Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 dir=\"ltr\"><strong>WHM \u2013 Initial Setup Guide<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">1. Login to WHM<br \/>\nP\/s: You may\u00a0ignore the SSL warning if you don\u2019t own a\u00a0valid SSL<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">2. Click \u2018I Agree\/Go to Step 2\u2019<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">3. Insert your valid \u2018Server Contact Email Address\u2019, \u2018This Server\u2019s Hostname\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Primary Resolver set as 208.67.222.222\u00a0and Secondary Resolver as 208.67.220.220. Click \u2018Save &amp; Go to Step 3\u2019.\u00a0<span data-cke-widget-wrapper=\"1\" data-cke-filter=\"off\" data-cke-display-name=\"image\" data-cke-widget-id=\"4\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click and drag to move\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP\/\/\/wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>4. Click \u2018Go to Step 4\u2019.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">5. Select BIND name server, insert the nameservers and its corresponding A record as per sceenshot. Then insert your server IP in \u2018IP for Entry\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>======================<\/p>\n<p>Nameserver1 : ns184.mschosting.com<\/p>\n<p>Nameserver2 :\u00a0ns185.mschosting.com<\/p>\n<p>Nameserver3\u00a0:\u00a0ns186.mschosting.com<\/p>\n<p>======================<\/p>\n<p>ns184.mschosting.com\u00a0103.18.244.52<\/p>\n<p>ns185.mschosting.com\u00a0103.7.8.73<\/p>\n<p>ns186.mschosting.com\u00a0173.248.178.38<\/p>\n<p>======================<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 5\">\n<p>6. Select \u2018Pro-FTPD in FTP configuration, \u2018Dovecot\u2019 in Mail configuration. Tick the checkbox \u2018Convert Mailbox Formail\u2019, \u2018Enable cPHulk\u2019, and Install common set of Perl Modules.\u00a0<span data-cke-widget-wrapper=\"1\" data-cke-filter=\"off\" data-cke-display-name=\"image\" data-cke-widget-id=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click and drag to move\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP\/\/\/wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>7. Select \u2018Use file system quotas\u2019, then click \u2018Finish Setup Wizard\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHM \u2013 Initial Setup Guide 1. Login to WHM P\/s: You may\u00a0ignore the SSL warning if you don\u2019t own a\u00a0valid SSL 2. Click \u2018I Agree\/Go to Step 2\u2019 3. Insert your valid \u2018Server Contact Email Address\u2019, \u2018This Server\u2019s Hostname\u2019. The Primary Resolver set as 208.67.222.222\u00a0and Secondary Resolver as 208.67.220.220. Click \u2018Save &amp; Go to Step 3\u2019.\u00a0 4. Click \u2018Go to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[37],"kbtag":[1515],"class_list":["post-1293","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-web-host-manager-whm","kbtag-whm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6636,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1293\/revisions\/6636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}