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.
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
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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. |
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.
