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Control Panel Tutorial and
Demo
General Info:
All accounts come with a control panel. You can access your control panel at:
http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel/ or http://youripaddress/cpanel/
http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel/ will not be active until your domain has been transferred to our
nameservers.
You will be asked to enter your user / pass to gain
access to your configuration.
The control panel is pretty much self
explanatory however a little information on the usage of each
section is included below if you get confused along the way:
FTP Accounts:
FTP accounts are used for managing
access to your web space.
The creation of an FTP account
will allow users to log into a sub directory from your main account
without gaining access to your main accounts.
Sessions show any
users that are currently logged into your domain. Settings allow you
to modify access to your anonymous FTP site.
CGI:
We have numerous customizable cgi
scripts that have been pre-installed on the server for you to use
with your own account.
The only thing you'll need to do is select
the script you are interested in using, select the colors, style
etc., and click the "Make HTML" button.
You can then paste
the HTML output into any of your HTML files to use that system cgi
program.
Java:
System Java works the exact same
was as cgi see above for usage.
Web Page Protection:
Web page protection
is used to limit access to any directory to users who enter a
user/pass combo. To protect a directory within your account:
- Click on that directory
- Enter a username / password for access
- Click add.
You can add as many users as you wish to this file. This protection
is for resources accessed via the WEB only, this will not create an
FTP user.
Do not use this if you are also using FrontPage. It is not
compatible. Instead, use the security controls within FrontPage
itself.
E-MAIL:
The E-mail component of the control panel allows
instant creation of e-mail POP3, forwards, and aliases.
A POP3
account is a stand alone incoming e-mail account.
If you create a account names john all mail sent to
john@yourdomain.com will be routed to
the john e-mail account. The user john can then check this mail by
login into mail.yourdomain.com using his user name and password.
An
alias sends mail sent to one address to another POP3 account within
your domain. For example if our recently created john account was
going to receive all mail sent to sales@anyname.net we would setup
sales as an alias to john.
Note: by default all names not configured
will go to the root account. So if you sent a message to testl@domain.com it
would be sent to your main root account unless you had set it up as
an alias, forward or POP3.
A forward account sends mail sent to
user@domain.com to an address completely out of your domain. For
example if john had an AOl account and wanted to check all his mail
there you could setup john to forward to john3435@aol.com.
Access Stats:
Provides access to many
different programs that will analyze your access logs and show you
more information about your web sites traffic.
Password:
Allows you to change your
main accounts password. A good suggestion is to change this password
at least once a month.
File Manager:
Allows you to modify the
files in your web site in real-time via a web based interface. You
can perform many commands such as chmod as well as actually edit the
file and save it directly to the web server.
Java Chat:
Allows you to access your
personal java chat server and supplies the code for you to use the
product on your own site.
Handlers / Types:
You will probably never
need to use this portion of your control panel. A MIME type is
basically what tells the web server that a .html document is a web
page, and that a .gif doc is a gif image etc. If you would like to
configure a custom MIME type such as making .pictures a gif image
file you would enter it here.
Error Editor:
This section lets you
customize the errors that your users will see instead of the generic
server errors. You could setup a 404 page to redirect users to your
main web site instead of the default dead document.
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