New to cpanel and dedicated servers so bear with me...

Firstly is the site that shows on my IP (the cpanel site saying no site is configured at this address) the site in /usr/local/apache/htdocs?

Secondly my first domain will be pointing at my server soon (NS's changed and SM DNS done)... where will this point? I'm guessing I need a Cpanel user with that domain as it's domain? Does that need to be domain.com or www.domain.com or doesn't it matter?

If I want domain.net and domain.co.uk to display the same site, I just add them as parked domains correct? Does this also sort the email out or do I need to manually add an entry for that, so name@domain.com and name@domain.co.uk both goto the same place and I only get one copy.

Thanks, Ian

Cpanel is the Client Control Panel and is only active for web sites on your servers. If you have not created any website, Cpanel would not work. You would need to use WHM to do that.

It is possible that what you are seeing now is just the placeholder. Once you setup your site to use that ip address, you should see the change in the placeholder. After you uploaded your files to the site, it would change to your content.

Create the domain name as domain.com and not www.domain.com. WHM is smart enough to create a respective pointer for www.domain.com for web access. If you create the site as www.domain.com , it would not be accessible as domain.com and your email address would look a little funny such as yourid@www.domain.com

Yes, you use the park domains for the domain.net and the other variant if you want them to point to the same contents. You set that up in Cpanel itself.

Thanks Eddy.