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This document covers the following topics:
Your Temporary Index Page
You will be able to access your Web site right after you
register your account. To do this, you will have to use an
instant domain alias . Instant Domain Alias is an additional
web address which lets you access your site during the first
several hours after the domain name registration, the time
when the site is yet unavailable at the newly registered domain.
Over the next few days DNS servers all across the Internet
will update themselves with your new site name. Once that
happens, you will be able to access your site at the domain
you have registered.
The moment your account is registered, a temporary index
page is added to your site's directory. It will look like
this:
It will be there until you upload your site and replace
it with your own index page (e.g. yoursite/index.html).
Meanwhile, from this temporary page you can:
- administer your 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.
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.
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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