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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
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
After you set up a new account, H-Sphere will create several
default subdirectories. Subdirectories' number and names may
differ depending on the plan that you sign up for, yet some
of them are common for any Unix or Windows plan. Here are
some of the folders in your home directory that may not be
deleted. Depending on your account configuration, these can
be:
- The directories that contain your sites. 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 /webalizer or /modlogan directories. Do not
delete either the directories containing your site
(e.g.www.domain.com) or directories containing logfile
analyzers, Webalizer and ModLogAn (e.g. /webalizer
or /modlogan); your site is too valuable to lose
it 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
Logs directories will cause the loss of the web statistics
accumulated in the course of your site's 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 is used by Anonymous FTP users after you
enable Anonymous FTP Access. There are as many such directories
as dedicated IP addresses. Deleting FTP directories will
cause incorrect operation of Virtual FTP, deleting files
in these directories will not impact FTP functioning, but
your FTP users will lose any files stored in these folders.
Click here for more on Virtual FTP.
- The subdomain directories. When creating new subdomains,
you create a directory for each of them with the subdomain
name as the directory name. Deleting directories containing
the newly-created subdomains will result in the incorrect
operation (Error message 404 "File not found" will appear
every time anyone attempts to access the subdomain). Click
here to read on how to create
subdomains.
- The ssl.conf directory. This directory stores SSLpairs
for all encrypted sites. Deleting ssl.conf directory
will result in incorrect SSL operation.
Warning: It is undesirable to delete ANY of default
directories in your root directory. As a rule of thumb, you
may delete the directories and files that you have uploaded
yourselves or that have been uploaded by any of your Virtual
FTP and Anonymous FTP users. Deleting any other above-mentioned
folders will cause the malfunctions of your account.
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