Hey guys, I want to create a demo only account for potential customers to look at to see what Cpanel is like. However I enabled demo mode for my hosting site, and the demo mode is enabled, however how does it work? I want a specific user and login for the demo account, and for them to have no functionality apart from navigating around. Is this possible?
Don't set your own site to demo mode 
Create a new account with it's own valid domain name, or as a subdomain of your own. i.e demo.maindomain.com
When creating the account enter:
Domain: demo.maindomain.com
User: demo
Pass: demo
Or whatever username/password combo you want.
Then via WHM set it to a demo account.
Be sure to set the disk allowance to less than 1mb so that nothing can be uploaded. When you log into : http://demo.maindomain.com/cpanel using it's username/password you should find that most features will only work in part and will display a message that they are not available as it's only a demo.
Create a new account with it's own valid domain name, or as a subdomain of your own. i.e demo.maindomain.com
When creating the account enter:
Domain: demo.maindomain.com
User: demo
Pass: demo
Or whatever username/password combo you want.
Then via WHM set it to a demo account.
Be sure to set the disk allowance to less than 1mb so that nothing can be uploaded. When you log into : http://demo.maindomain.com/cpanel using it's username/password you should find that most features will only work in part and will display a message that they are not available as it's only a demo.
That's a bad idea. There's a bug in there that allows users to send emails from a demo account web-based email. If you set it to a real domain, god bless you.
I created one with a fake domain name, i.e. demo.com. It is accessible with the username and password via the IP address of the server:
http://xx.xx.xx.xx/cpanel
http://xx.xx.xx.xx/cpanel
Create a new Package: Demo
(NO shell access, zero POP3, zero FTP, 1 MB space, etc.)
Create a New Account:
Domain: demo.com
UserID: demo
Pwd: demo
Assign to the Demo Package.
Make it a demo account via "WHM/Account Functions/Disable or Enable Demo Mode on an Account".
When setting up even a fake Domain as a Demo Account, and using the http://IPaddress:2082, you can run into a problem with FTPing into the site (even if allowing 0 FTP accounts and less than 1 MB space). I simply logged in via SSH and chmod the account root (/home/demo) to 000 .
Hope that helps!
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(NO shell access, zero POP3, zero FTP, 1 MB space, etc.)
Create a New Account:
Domain: demo.com
UserID: demo
Pwd: demo
Assign to the Demo Package.
Make it a demo account via "WHM/Account Functions/Disable or Enable Demo Mode on an Account".
When setting up even a fake Domain as a Demo Account, and using the http://IPaddress:2082, you can run into a problem with FTPing into the site (even if allowing 0 FTP accounts and less than 1 MB space). I simply logged in via SSH and chmod the account root (/home/demo) to 000 .
Hope that helps!
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Recursive chmod?
@Host4u2
Edit - just read a thread dated back in July last year that explains the chmod -R 000 command and it is used as recursive.
How to make the SSH Telnet item not accept passwords as I have seen on some cPanel demos? Apart from disabling it of course which defeats the object of having a demo panel.
Thanks for help on this. Its a bit of a head ache trying to secure a branded cPanel demo.
@Host4u2
Did this secure your demo and was the chmod -R 000 (recursive)?
Edit - just read a thread dated back in July last year that explains the chmod -R 000 command and it is used as recursive.
How to make the SSH Telnet item not accept passwords as I have seen on some cPanel demos? Apart from disabling it of course which defeats the object of having a demo panel.
Thanks for help on this. Its a bit of a head ache trying to secure a branded cPanel demo.
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