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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. |
