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Adding i8k nameservers to your domain name at your registrar :
Before you web site is ready for the world to see, you must add our nameservers
to your domain name. This is done by logging into your account at the registrar
you registered your domain name with. Within your account you have a section
to add the nameservers. The nameservers you should use are specified in the
account notification email you received after signing up.
If reqired, you may have to enter the IP addresses of the nameservers also,
depending on your registrar. IP addresses are also included in your account
notification email.
This procedure generally takes 48 to 72 hour to propogate, at which time your
web site will be available via the world wide web.
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Creating and/or updating your web site :
All site management is done via the Site Administrator Control Panel.
Before your domain name has propogated with our name servers and your
registrar, you can access your accounts control panel be clicking the link
provided in your account notification email, or you can simply create a
shortcut in your web browser to the server administrator login page.
Once your domain name has propogated, you can access your site
administrator control panel from : http://yourdomain.com/admin
To login you enter your user name, domain name (without www.),
and password.
Once you have logged into the server administrator control panel, click
Site Summary, located on the left in the admin menu. This displays detailed
information about your account, including a link on top to change your
administrator password, and also the summary displays a link to the place
holder for your web site, which you can use to view your site while you are
editing it, before our nameservers propogate with your domain's registrar.
Your Server Administrator Control Panel includes a File Management System.
click Files, located on the left in the admin menu to access the file manager.
HTML Files should be transfered to var/www/html
PERL/CGI Files should be transfered to var/www/cgi-bin
Within the file manager, clicking an icon next to a filename allows you to
set the file permissions for each file. Clicking directly on the filename
allows you to download the file. Clicking on the pencil icon located on the
far right of filenames allows you to edit and save the file instantly with the
built in editor. Clicking the trash can icon next to the pencil icon deletes the
file. You can also use the checkboxed to manipulate multiple files at once.
Please see the FTP section of this F.A.Q. for detailed information on
uploading multiple files via FTP.
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Setting up Sub Domains on your web site :
Recently, we have upgraded our servers to allow the use of Sub Domains.
This feature is not enabled by default, you must submit a request asking
to enabled sub domains for your web site, using our support system.
Sub Domains are domains that reside within your main web sites html
folder, and can utilize additional words, before your domain name.
Example : anything.yourdomain.com
Please note, you cannot utilize : http://www.anything.yourdomain.com,
you can only access a sub domain from : http://anything.yourdomain.com.
Setting up and utilizing sub domains is as easy as adding a new user.
Add a new user via your control panel. The username you select will be
the name of the new sub domain created.
Example : we create a user named : anything
The user 'anything' now owns a sub domain : anything.yourdomain.com
which is accessible from http://anything.yourdomain.com.
To add content to the sub domain login to the user account via FTP and
upload your content.
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Monitoring your site's statistics :
Your account not only includes detailed monitoring of web, email,
and bandwidth from within your control panel, you also have a complete
statistical display of your sites activity at http://yourdomain.com/stats
The webalizer statistics are updated daily and display detailed
information about all activity, including visitors ip's, their browser
types, and even their locations.
Special note : If you do not want your site statistics to be accessible by
everyone, you should password protect the stats directory.
To do this login to your control panel, click the Services icon, then Click
the Configure icon for Apache Web Server. Here you can get detailed help
about setting up a password protected directory, and this is where you
configure them also.
Note - If your site has frontpage extensions enabled, you must utilize
the directory protection feature provided by frontpage instead of
apache password protection.
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Accessing your domains Control Panels :
Until your domain name has propogated, you
can login to your control panel by clicking the
link provided in your account notification email.
Once your domain has propogated, you can
access the site admin control panel from :
http://yourdomain.com/admin
Users you add to your domain can access their
user control panel from :
http://yourdomain.com/user
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Logging into your site via Telnet and/or SSH Shell :
Due to recent security related issues we have disabled all telnet access.
To access your site via shell you should use SSH instead. This is similar to
telnet but is much more secure. Secure CRT is a very good SSH client,
there are of course others available you may prefer to utilize.
To access your shell accounts, enter the required information as follows :
Host : yourdomain.com
User Name : your_login_name@yourdomain.com
Password : your site admin password.
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Logging into your site via FTP :
To login to your site using an FTP client use the following procedure :
Before our name servers have propogated your domain name :
Host : The IP address specified in your account notification email.
User Name : your_login_name@yourdomain.com
Password : your admin password
After your domain name is accessible :
Host : ftp.yourdomain.com
User Name : your_login_name@yourdomain.com
Password : your admin password
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Setting up and utilizing PERL / CGI scripts :
Special Note : Uploading scripts via the control panel is not recommended,
you should use an ftp program set to ascii mode when uploading scripts.
PERL/CGI Files should be transfered via ftp to var/www/cgi-bin
Login to your Server Administrator Control Panel. Click Files, located
on the left in the admin menu to access the file manager.
Within the cgi-bin folder, click the icon next to the filename you
want to set the file permissions for.
When setting permissions you should remember the general
permissions rules, which apply to all three groups, they are :
Read = 4
Write = 2
Execute =1
This system works as follows :
A CGI file that is CHMOD to 755 would be set :
Owner : Read / Write / Execute (4+2+1 = 7)
Group : Read / Execute (4+1 = 5)
Other : Read / Execute (4+1 = 5)
It is important to learn this when working with the control panel,
it is easy, and much faster than having to access your account
via shell, change to the proper folder and type 'chmod 755 filename'.
Select the appropriate check boxes, and click the Update Permissions button.
Running your cgi scripts :
The path to perl is : #!/usr/bin/perl
There are also variables available to all cgi scripts :
$SITE_ROOT = The absolute path of your domain
( Example - */var/www/html )
$SITE_CGIROOT = The absolute CGI path of your domain
( Example - */var/www/cgi-bin )
$SITE_HTMLROOT = The absolute HTML CGI path of your domain
( Example - domain.com/cgi-bin )
You will notice that in actuality your cgi-bin folder
does not physically reside within your html folder, it actually
resides in the folder before your html files for added security.
However, any and all cgi scripts you utilize will still be called
as if your cgi-bin folder resides in your html directory.
Example :
http://yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/yourscript.cgi
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Configuring and utilizing email accounts :
Use the following to configure and utilize your email services :
POP3 mail server : mail.yourdomain.com
SMTP mail server : mail.yourdomain.com
User Name : your_login_name@yourdomain.com
(utilize # if @ is not allowed)
Password : your admin password
Outgoing Main Authentication is required to send mail, this options
should be checked in the properties of programs such as outlook express.
Your users configure their mail in the same way :
POP3 mail server : mail.yourdomain.com
SMTP mail server : mail.yourdomain.com
User Name : their_user_name@yourdomain.com
(utilize # if @ is not allowed)
Password : their password
You also have web based email. Site admins access the web based
email from the Site Summary page within your control panel. Your
users access their mail from their main control panel menu.
You and your users can also access the web based email from :
http://yourdomain.com/webmail
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Adding users to your web site :
Login to your site admin control panel. Click the Mailboxes/Users link,
located on the left side in the main menu. When the Mailboxes/Users
window is displayed, click the Add User link on top.
Enter the required information, setup the services you are offering
them, and click the Add button to add your new user.
You can also save a default configuration, to add user quicker.
Provide your users a link to the User Admin login :
http://yoursite.com/user
Your users must enter their login name, yourdomain.com (without www.), and
their password to log into their control panel.
Your users utilize this procedure for accessing Telnet and/or SSH,
if available to them :
Host : yourdomain.com
User Name : their_user_name@yourdomain.com
Password : their password
Your users utilize this procedure for accessing FTP, if available to them :
Host : ftp.yourdomain.com
User Name : their_user_name@yourdomain.com
Password : their password
Your users also have their own web site on your server.
They can edit their web content by accessing their storage space via FTP,
their html folder path is : /home/their_user_name/public_html
Their web content should be uploaded within their public_html folder.
To access their site from a web browser they enter :
http://yoursite.com/~their_user_name/ or http://their_user_name.yourdomain.com.
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