Introduction to Addons

The cPAddons system allows a script to be packaged up so that it can be installed on a user's website, upgraded, uninstalled and otherwise managed from cPanel and WebHost Manager. This manual describes technically how to package a script as a cPAddon and how to maintain that script.

Any script that you wish to install on multiple websites could potentially be a cPAddon script. A guestbook, content management system, blog engine, etc could all be cPAddon scripts. The benefit to having cPAddon scripts is that these scripts can be installed by cPanel users from their cPanel interfaces after the cPAddon script is installed on the server.