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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.
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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