{"id":6025,"date":"2018-10-25T14:37:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T14:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siliconhouse.net\/support\/?page_id=6025"},"modified":"2018-10-25T14:37:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T14:37:36","slug":"view-hidden-files-linux-hosting-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.siliconhouse.net\/support\/linux-reseller-web-hosting\/view-hidden-files-linux-hosting-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I view hidden files in Linux reseller hosting cPanel ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dedicated_server_hosting_features_center\">\n<div class=\"reseller_web_hosting_support_navigation\"><aside id=\"bcn_widget-2\" class=\"widget widget_breadcrumb_navxt amr_widget\"><span property=\"itemListElement\" typeof=\"ListItem\"><a property=\"item\" typeof=\"WebPage\" title=\"Go to Silicon House - Reseller Hosting - Dedicated Servers - Cloud.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.siliconhouse.net\/support\" class=\"home\"><span property=\"name\" style=\"color: #232323\"><b>Support Home<\/b><\/span><\/a><meta property=\"position\" content=\"1\"><\/span><\/aside><\/div>\n<div class=\"dedicated_server_hosting_features\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.siliconhouse.net\/linux-reseller-web-hosting-india\">Linux Reseller Hosting<\/a> cPanel provides you user friendly options to manage hosting of your websites. cPanel has been popular control panel used in <a href=\"http:\/\/siliconhouse.net\/\">linux hosting<\/a>. cPanel has been provided with more options that are necessary for the website function. The most important and interesting category is &#8220;FILES&#8221; in cPanel. You can see many options under &#8220;FILES&#8221;. File manager is where you manage your website files, mails and other important configuration files etc. Generally file extensions like php,html, css, js all will be shown in cPanel file manager. To view hidden files, you will have to follow the below procedure.<br \/>\n<aside id=\"text-16\" class=\"widget widget_text amr_widget\">\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><div class=\"reseller_web_hosting_support_advts\">\r\n\r\n<div class=\"reseller_web_hosting_support_advts_left\">\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.siliconhouse.net\/linux-reseller-web-hosting-india\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.siliconhouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/336X280-saffron-unlimited-499-kickstart.gif\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" alt=\"Reseller Hosting Special Offer\"><\/a>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"reseller_web_hosting_support_advts_right\">\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.siliconhouse.net\/linux-cloud-server-hosting-india\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.siliconhouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/336X280-purple-enterprise-cloud-stak-19.jpg\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" alt=\"Enterprise Cloud Stack\"><\/a>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<\/aside><br \/>\n<aside id=\"text-20\" class=\"extendedwopts-md-center widget widget_text amr_widget\">\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><div class=\"reseller_web_hosting_support_advts\">\r\n<div class=\"reseller_web_hosting_support_advts_left\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.siliconhouse.net\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/reseller-hosting-249-offer.gif\" width=\"320\" height=\"100\" alt=\"Reseller Hosting Special Offer\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"reseller_web_hosting_support_advts_right\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.siliconhouse.net\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/reseller-hosting-249-offer.gif\" width=\"320\" height=\"100\" alt=\"Reseller Hosting Special Offer\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<\/aside><\/p>\n<p>Hidden files are the file names that starts with a &#8220;.&#8221; (dot). Eg : .htaccess is a hidden file which is called as apache configuration file. When using File Manager, you cannot see hidden files and folders unless you select the option to show hidden files. The method for displaying it depends on whether you are using Paper Lantern as your theme, or X3.<\/p>\n<p>Please follow the below procedure to show the hidden files in your cPanel.<\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siliconhouse.net\/support\/linux-reseller-web-hosting\/login-cpanel-particular-domain-name\/\">Login to the cPanel<\/a><br \/>\n2. Click on File manager option under &#8220;Files&#8221;<br \/>\n3. Click on Settings option at the top right corner of the interface<br \/>\n4. Small dialog box will be opened<br \/>\n5. Always open this directory in the future by default: &#8220;Choose Document Root for : Domain name&#8221;<br \/>\n6. Enable the check box &#8220;Show Hidden Files (dotfiles)&#8221;<br \/>\n7. 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