{"id":24131,"date":"2022-02-02T14:21:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T14:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/cpanel-allowing-custom-user-agents-internet-bots\/"},"modified":"2023-03-07T08:06:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T08:06:36","slug":"cpanel-allowing-custom-user-agents-internet-bots","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/1grid.co.za\/knowledge\/cpanel-allowing-custom-user-agents-internet-bots\/","title":{"rendered":"cPanel: Allowing custom User-Agents \/ Internet Bots"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote data-identifyelement=\"467\"><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This article provides you with information on giving access to customer User-agents on your website be in WordPress, Joomla or any other website.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p data-identifyelement=\"468\">\n<p data-identifyelement=\"470\">\n<p data-identifyelement=\"472\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Step 1<\/strong>&#8211; \u00a0Login to cPanel<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px 4px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: outside disc; line-height: 17px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background-color: #fefefe;\" data-identifyelement=\"475\">\n<li style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20.8px; font-size: 16px !important; margin: 0px; word-break: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Please see our article on logging into cPanel<\/span> <a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #00c1dc; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important;\" href=\"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/how-to-log-in-to-cpanel-via-your-1-grid-customer-zone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"fr-fic fr-fil fr-dib aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cdn.freshdesk.com\/data\/helpdesk\/attachments\/production\/33092595781\/original\/clggMLCUSVYYYMSyIbo_7xc04IrhUoYIXA.png?1678165611\" width=\"200\" height=\"310\" data-attachment=\"[object Object]\" data-id=\"33092595781\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-identifyelement=\"481\">\n<p data-identifyelement=\"483\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fefefe; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Step 2 &#8211; \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fefefe; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Go to <strong>File Manager<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-identifyelement=\"489\">\n<p data-identifyelement=\"491\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"fr-fic fr-fil fr-dib aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cdn.freshdesk.com\/data\/helpdesk\/attachments\/production\/33092602484\/original\/93Z28Uvl6x80UIrl5qI5s5EDhknILybRgg.png?1678175406\" width=\"461\" height=\"194\" data-id=\"33092602484\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-identifyelement=\"493\">\n<p data-identifyelement=\"495\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Step 3\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; \u00a0Select <strong>public_html\u00a0<\/strong>and create a new file.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-identifyelement=\"499\">\n<p data-identifyelement=\"501\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"fr-fic fr-dib fr-shadow aligncenter\" style=\"width: 500px;\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cdn.freshdesk.com\/data\/helpdesk\/attachments\/production\/33038815143\/original\/DDV-dF-kJHDJqwWvskjM6VTIc9kuldc4Ug.png?1585308920\" height=\"327\" data-id=\"33038815143\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-identifyelement=\"503\">\n<p data-identifyelement=\"505\">\n<p data-identifyelement=\"507\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Step 4 <\/strong>&#8211; \u00a0Configure your custom User-Agents<\/span><\/p>\n<ul data-identifyelement=\"510\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #000000;\">Custom user agents might required by plugins or third party providers capturing data from your website.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px; 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