Starting
with your account
This document covers the following topics:
Your Temporary Index
Page
Right after the registration, a directory for your site is created
on the server. This directory contains a temporary index page that
is accessible from the internet and allows you to:
- administer your user account. Enter your control panel login
and password into "Login to your Control Panel".
This login and password are e-mailed to you at the address you
specified at signup. Use the Control Panel to view your bills,
change your contact/billing information, change passwords, get
more disk space, report problems to the technical support staff
and much, much more.
- create a web site in a matter of minutes right from your browser.
Use the option "Launch Site Builder". Initially,
the password to log into the site builder is the same as that
for the control panel.
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Uploading
Your Site
Whenever possible, upload your site using the utilities that come
with your web-site development software. For instance, if you made
your site with SiteStudio, FrontPage or Dreamweaver, use their integrated
web publishing tools. If you made your site with simple text editors,
or if your site-building software does not have a publishing utility,
use freestanding FTP clients, such as CuteFTP, SmartFTP, or the
built-in web-based FTP agent.
Please note that site publishing tools don't remove your old web
content from the server. For instance, if you used SiteStudio to
upload a site with 15 pages and later you published an updated 7
page version of this site, your directory on the server will have
all the new pages and the old pages that haven't been overwritten.
If you publish many versions of the website, the site may become
cluttered with old files. Warning: If you have a complete
website, be careful not to overwrite it with a publish command.
Don't upload your site to the root of your user directory!
Instead, put it to the specific directory. See below for more information.
Related: Sharing access to your home directory
with others.
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Contents
of Your Home Directory
Your home directory contains several default subdirectories. Their
number and names will differ depending on your plan, yet some of
them are common for all plans. Here are some of the directories
that are automatically created and may not be deleted:
Directories that contain your sites. Each of your sites
is put in a separate directory. The name of the directory is the
same as your site's domain name. If you have more than one site,
you will have several such directories. These are the directories
where you will upload your .html files or any other files that you
want to make accessible from the Internet. Each of these directories
may contain their own /webalizer or /modlogan directories. Do
not delete either of these directories! Your site is too valuable
to lose at a touch of a button.
The Logs directory. It contains directories for every site
with transfer log enabled. Each such directory contains its own
set of log files that are required to write and read the data about
all visits to your sites. Deleting the Logs directory will cause
the loss of the web statistics accumulated in the course of your
site operation. Click here for
more on web statistics.
The Virtual FTP directory. Its name is the dedicated IP
address. This directory is created when you enable Virtual FTP Server
and can be accessed by virtual FTP users to list and download its
content. There are as many such directories as dedicated IP addresses.
Deleting Virtual FTP directories will cause incorrect operation
of Virtual FTP. However, you may harmlessly delete individual
files in these directories. Click here
for more on Virtual FTP.
The subdomain directories. When you make a subdomain, a
new directory is created with the subdomain name as the directory
name. If you delete a subdomain directory, internet visitors
will get the 404 "File not found" error when attempting to access
the subdomain. Click here
to read on how to create subdomains.
The ssl.conf directory. This directory stores SSL pairs
for all encrypted sites. Deleting the ssl.conf directory will
result in incorrect SSL operation.
Warning: Don't delete ANY default directories in your root
directory, as this will cause malfunctions of your acount. As a
rule of thumb, you may delete only directories and files you have
uploaded yourselves or that have been uploaded by any of your Virtual
FTP and Anonymous FTP users.
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