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.
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