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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
You have two
alternative ways to upload your site to the server:
- Using PC
based FTP agents, such as CuteFTP or SmartFTP;
- Using the
built-in web-based FTP agent. (See
WebShell for details).
Important:
Don't upload your site to the root of your user directory! See below
for the explanation.
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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