

Step 5: Create New MySQL User (If Necessary)

If you already know your user's password, please skip ahead to step 6. If you do not know your MySQL user password, we can create a new user for CodeGuard. We can now get our MySQL database names and users. Go back to the main cPanel page and search for 'mysql'. Now that SSH is definitely enabled, we need our MySQL credentials. If you do not, please repeat step 2 and make sure WebHostingBuzz enabled your SSH access. Check to make sure you see the 'Java SSH Login' section. Now that we are in the SSH/Shell Access tab, we can verify that SSH is enabled. Search for 'Shell' in the left-hand search bar and click on SSH/Shell Access: Once we are in cPanel, we need to get to the SSH Access page. Login to cPanel which you can get to with the following link: :2083. Now we need to make sure that SSH is enabled. I received the following email in return:Īs you can see, SSH is currently enabled and I can use my cPanel username/password to log in.

Will my SSH username and password be the same as my cPanel login?Īlso, will the SSH port be the default 22 or is it configured to be a different port? My website URL is and my cPanel username is. I would like SSH access enabled for my account, please. In order to do that, you will need to send an email to Below is a template you can use to ask to enable your SSH: Now that we have our credentials, we need to make sure that SSH is enabled for our account. If you don't already know them, they should have been sent to you in an email when you signed up for a WebHostingBuzz account. You will need to collect the following information to add your database through SSH tunneling:įirst, we need the login details for our cPanel administrative portal.
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In the following article, we will show you how to backup your database by using SSH Tunneling on a WebHostingBuzz shared hosting account.
