Setting up cPanel account from WHM

Setting up a server with the WHM panel is pretty easy, since most of that is done for you by your hosting company. But it's not so intuative to setup the cPanel account itself (for the first time installation). So here are some instructions:

Here is a video: http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/1091/97/web-hosting-tutorials-how-to-create-a-cpanel-account-in-whm

First you need a domain:
1) Purchase one from godaddy.

Or create a subdomain:
http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/4080/managing-a-domain-names-subdomains?pc_split_value=1&countrysite=in
1) From Account manager, click on the "Domains" section to open it up. Select the domain you want and click on the "Launch" button.
2) Click on the "DNS Zone File" tab
3) Click on the "Edit" button.
4) Now you should be inside the DNS Manager section. At the very top of the page, there should be a tool bar with icons. Click on the "Add Record" icon.
5)  From the drop-down box, choose the option called "A (Host)."
6)  Inside the box called "Host Name", enter the subdomain you want to use. (For example, dev.mydomain.com)
7)  Enter the IP it should point to.
8)  Click Okay. Now you will return to the DNS Manager page.
9)  Remember to now click on the "SAVE FILE" button at the top of the page.
10)  You'll probably need to wait a couple hours before it takes affect.

Then setup WHM:
1)  Login to your WHM panel and go to:   Home -> Account Functions -> Add new account
2)  Fill in all the information with your domain.
3)  Create a default package with manual settings. Leave everything as is.
4)  Click save!

Now you have an account that will access cPanel. From the WHM manager, you can go to: Accouts -> List Accounts. Then click on the cPanel icon to login.

Or you can login to your cPanel directly: http://myip:2083
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Now setup a database in cPanel:
1) Inside of cPanel, go to the section called "msqyl databases". You need to create a new database with collation utf8_unicode. Remember the name.
2)  Create a new user for your database
3)  Finally assign the user you just made, to the new database you just created. Give the user all privileges.

Additions to moodle install:
http://docs.moodle.org/24/en/CentOS_Linux_installation
http://docs.moodle.org/24/en/PHP
- Enabled XCache for php
- Enable IonCube Loader if necessary for custom licensing tools
- Make sure you have mysqli installed for the database (done through WHM->software->easyapache)
- Make sure you have curl installed

Now to setup moodle inside of cpanel:
1) Go to the Filemanager.
2) Create a folder named "moodledata" at the same level as the "public_html" item. Or simply remember to install it at a higher level than the moodle code. It needs to be one level higher in a folder hierarchy.
3) Go inside the "public_html" item. Upload a zip file of the latest moodle release. Upack the zip file. (Note: the zip file might extract to a folder called "moodle." For our purposes, make sure that all files are not within a separate folder, but extracted directly inside of "public_html."
4) Access the website via url to start the moodle installation process.

During installation:
1)  Make sure the "unix socket" check box is on.
2)  Make sure your database was set with the utf8_unicode option

After installation:
1)  Make sure you set the cron for the moodle site and server.
http://docs.moodle.org/24/en/Cron_with_web_hosting_services
2)  Go into cPanel for your server. Scroll down to the "Advanced" section and click on the "Cron Jobs" button.
3)  Choose the timing for your cron job (normal is to every 30 minutes)
4)  Enter the cron command like this example:  /usr/local/bin/php -q /home/username/public_html/moodle/admin/cli/cron.php