Title: API key Problem with Cpanel Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # API key Problem with Cpanel * [arntxee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arntxee/) * (@arntxee) * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-key-problem-with-cpanel/) * Ok, I know this has been asnwered many times but with those answer I can’t solve my problem. * I am hosting my site with totalchoicehosting. Now they provide cpanel and I installed wordpress through cpanel. [http://www.presenthut.net](http://www.presenthut.net). * Now my username and password were registered via cpanel and I can use that information for long in to my wordpress account. So I can’t get API key. When I go to profile, it doesn’t show any API key. So it doesn’t let me use wordpress.com stat. * When I registered at wordpress.com for new API key and when I enter that API key using original username from cpanel, it says I am not the owner if API key. And when I use wordpress acount long in, it says I am not associated with blog. * What should I do to get this thing work? * Thanks a lot Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-key-problem-with-cpanel/#post-583941) * When you register at wp.COM you get an email… with username, pw. Did you read it? * Thread Starter [arntxee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arntxee/) * (@arntxee) * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-key-problem-with-cpanel/#post-583955) * Yes I did. * It has an API key but when I copy and paste that key, it says you are not an owner of this API key and it doesn’t accept. * If I use the long in information in email and paste the API key, it says I am not in access list of this blog. When blog was registered, other API key was used. I mean it’s weired because I never got API key as I was registered through cpanel. * [drmike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drmike/) * (@drmike) * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-key-problem-with-cpanel/#post-583958) * You don’t get an API key when your blog is hosted elsewhere. The only place you get the key is from an wp.com account. * Is the email address you have in your blog hosted at totalchoicehosting the same as the one you registered with wp.com? I bet that’s the issue. * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-key-problem-with-cpanel/#post-583959) * You do NOT get any kind of API key (or free beer) on your own hosted WordPress installation. And I am not sure I can follow all those blog here, blog there jumps… * _There are 3 things – not related to each other_: * your **own blog** with admin as user and your own password (what you like to call cPanel blog); no API there but you will use the key that you get below: * your wordpress.**com** account with the username you chose at registration and the pw sent to you – that’s where you get the API key * your account here in the forum (at wordpress.**org**) – you don’t get anything here * Thread Starter [arntxee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arntxee/) * (@arntxee) * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-key-problem-with-cpanel/#post-583964) * Ok guys, thanks for quick replies. I understand what you are saying, I will try to explain my problem again. * I know I can’t get API key from Cpanel created username (X) and password. I can use that information to longin to site admin site of my blog. * I created another account at WP.com just for username (Y) so that I can get API key. And I got API key. * Now if I use cpanel username(X) and password to long in to site admin and then activate wordpress.com stat and Akismet, Akismet readily accept the key but wordpress. com says I am not the owner of this key. * And when I long in using WP.com account username (Y), I can’t get access to blog. * So I am not sure why Akismet accepts the key but wordpress.com doesn’t. And what should I do to resolve this problem. * I have only one blog. * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-key-problem-with-cpanel/#post-583968) * OK, let’s separate then the issues. 1. You could activate Akismet and it is working, right? If yes, don’t even mention it anymore, it’s just confusing 🙂 * 2. You also want the stats plugin in your hosted blog, right? and that’s also asking for API key, as far as I remember. You activate the plugin and a “Blogstats” submenu appears. You click on it and it asks you to login. Use the wp.COM username/ pw combo! * Thread Starter [arntxee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arntxee/) * (@arntxee) * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-key-problem-with-cpanel/#post-583980) * Thanks guys, somehow it didn’t work with my last account but I created another WP.com account and that key worked out fine. * Thanks again. Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘API key Problem with Cpanel’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [api key](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/api-key/) * [cPanel](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cpanel/) * 7 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [arntxee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arntxee/) * Last activity: [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-key-problem-with-cpanel/#post-583980) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics