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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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