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Posted by hkps
hkps
4,071 Points

Can't access cPanel on my new site

I just bought a domain through webhostingforstudents while following the "How to Make a Website with Wordpress" course. While I am able to access the front end of my site with the FTP Address, I can't access the cPanel page. I cleared my browser cache and flushed the local DNS cache and it didn't change--and any of my pings timed out. Is cPanel what usually takes a couple hours to access?

Chrome is showing an ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT

3 Answers

richardwheeler
richardwheeler
8,332 Points

Unless you got some weird error message, it CAN sometimes take a few hours to process to allow you access. I had the same issue. You should have gotten an email with instructions, just follow those after wainting a couple of hours.

richardwheeler
richardwheeler
8,332 Points
richardwheeler
richardwheeler
8,332 Points

You would think so but that's the same thing that happened to me. Have you tried switching browsers by chance?

hkps
hkps
4,071 Points

Yeah, just tried, same result

hkps
hkps
4,071 Points
hkps
hkps
4,071 Points

There weren't any error messages, but the front end of the website with the webhostingforstudents logo is up, which means, from what I can tell, cPanel should be working too?