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AI Connect: Update Your Site with ChatGPT or Claude

What AI Connect is, how it works, and what your AI assistant can and can't do on your CR Servers website.

Connect ChatGPT or Claude with AI Connect

Steps to connect your AI assistant to your CR Servers website, including the setting a ChatGPT business workspace admin needs.

Use AI Connect from Cursor, VS Code, Warp and other tools

Add CR Servers AI Connect to Cursor, VS Code, Warp, Claude Code, Codex or Gemini CLI and update your website from your coding tool.

Manage AI Connect in the Client Area

See which AI assistants can access your site, remove their access, review activity, and require your approval for every publish.

Back up and restore your hosting account

Create a panel backup of site files and databases, download a copy you control, and restore only when you mean to overwrite the live account.

How to Change Your PHP Version

Change the PHP version of a site and manage PHP extensions with the CloudLinux PHP Selector in the web hosting control panel.

Give a Developer Access with Extra Control Panel Users

Create extra users in the web hosting control panel so a developer or colleague gets their own login, limited to the sections and domains they need.

Schedule cron jobs on shared hosting

Create, edit, and delete scheduled commands in the hosting control panel — backups, CMS tasks, and PHP CLI scripts.

Deploy Your Site from GitHub with CR Servers Deploy

Publish a website kept in a GitHub repository to your CR Servers hosting automatically on every push, over an encrypted FTPS connection.

Use the hosting file manager

Use the hosting control panel's file manager to browse your site's html folder, upload or edit files, and set permissions. Use FTP for large transfers.

Force HTTPS: Redirect HTTP to HTTPS

Send every visitor to the secure https:// version of your site with a short .htaccess rule, after the domain has an SSL certificate.

Create and manage FTP accounts

Add FTP users in the hosting control panel, set a home directory under the site docroot, and connect with a desktop client.

Hosting control panel overview

What you manage in the shared hosting control panel: sites, email, DNS, databases, and backups.

Edit the .htaccess file

Open or create .htaccess in your site's html folder to add redirects or access rules. Keep a copy first, and edit it with FTP or the file manager.

Install WordPress with the one-click installer

Install WordPress from the web hosting control panel with Themely, at the domain root or in a subfolder, and remove the default index.html page.

Create MySQL databases and users

Create a MySQL database and user in the hosting control panel, grant or revoke permissions, and delete a database after you have a backup.

How to Create a Node.js Application

Create, deploy and restart a Node.js application from the Node.js Selector in the web hosting control panel on CR Servers shared hosting.

Password-Protect a Folder on Your Site

Require a username and password to open a folder of your site, such as a staging copy or private downloads, from the web hosting control panel.

Hosting control panel password requirements

What counts as a strong password in the hosting control panel: minimum length 8, Strong strength, and which accounts it covers.

PHP, Node.js and Python on Your Hosting

Which web hosting control panel tool to use for PHP versions and extensions, Node.js applications, and Python applications on CR Servers shared hosting.

How to Create a Python Application

Create a Python WSGI application such as Flask or Django from the Python Selector in the web hosting control panel on CR Servers shared hosting.

Install a Free SSL Certificate (and When You Need a Dedicated IP)

Get a free Let's Encrypt certificate in the web hosting control panel, install one you bought, and see when a dedicated IP still helps.

View Hosting Statistics and Recent Visitors

See visits, bandwidth and recent visitors for your domains in the web hosting control panel with AWStats, bandwidth history and real-time graphs.

Troubleshoot Website Errors: 403, 500, 503 and Wrong Site Over HTTPS

What to check when your site shows 403 Forbidden, 500 or 503 errors, another website over HTTPS, or doesn't load after a DNS change.

Turn On Two-Factor Authentication for the Control Panel

Protect your web hosting control panel login with a code from an authenticator app, and turn it off again if you replace your phone.