If you accidentally remove the ‘www’ shortcut to public_html folder in cPanel, please follow tutorial below to recreate it.

1) Go to cPanel user folder

cd /home/user/

2) Create back the symbolic link

ln -s public_html www

3) Change the ownership of the www sym link to the cPanel user’s ownership

chown -h user.user www

4) Done. Do a ls -al to double check the sym link.

ls -al