In this post I will explain how to ensure your WHM/CPanel installation is access securely using SSL. WHM and CPanel support SSL out of the box, as long as you connect to the right port. However, the words whm, cpanel, and webmail are a lot easier to remember than port numbers like 2087, 2083, or 2096. So, I prefer to log in by putting them at the end of the URL. Unfortunately by default these URLs point to the insecure ports, and not the SSL ones. Sure, you can you use “/securewhm” instead of “/whm” or “/securecpanel” instead of “/cpanel”, but that’s more typing, and there is no “/securewebmail” alias by default. Besides, why would you ever want to log into these services without SSL? Fortunately, you can change this behavior and have all of these URLs point to the SSL ports.