When building a website, you do not want your visitors to see what is going on at the backend. In this case, you may decide to place an under construction page or in the case you want to make changes you can place a maintenance page and this can be done in the cPanel.
Steps on how to create an “Under Construction” page in cPanel
To create an “Under Construction/Coming Soon” page in cPanel, you can follow these steps:
- Login to your cPanel account.
- Navigate to the “File Manager” option in the “Files” section.
- Click on the “New File” option in the top menu bar.
- Enter a filename for your page, such as “index.html” or “comingsoon.html”.
- Click on the “Create New File” button.
- Right-click on the newly created file and select “Edit” from the drop-down menu, you can use HTML Editor
- Copy and paste one of the following codes:
This page is under construction
Under Construction page
Coming Soon page - Save your changes and exit the file editor.
Once you have created your “Under Construction/Coming Soon” page, you will need to make it the default page for your website. To do this, follow the instructions in our knowledgebase article.
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