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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
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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