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| Q: Now that I have an account . . . what next? A: The first thing you should do is log into your control panel and change your administrator password. This ensures that you are the only one with access to your control panel. You can access your control panel at http://www.yourdomainname.com/admin Q: When I log in by FTP, where do I upload the files for my web site? A: Files for the main web site must go in the "/var/www/html/" directory. When you first log in via FTP, you will be in the your user's directory. You will notice a directory called "mainwebsite_html". This directory is an alias for /var/www/html/. You will also notice a directory called "mainwebsite_cgi". This is where you will put any cgi scripts that you need to execute. This directory is accessible on the web at http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin. Q: When I try to access my domain in my browser, I receive an error. A: This is usually caused when the domain information has not been populated across the Internet yet. After you register a domain, it can take up to 72 hours for the domain to be available. In the mean time you can access your website via the address given in your welcome message. Be sure to also check that your name servers are set correctly in your DNS record. Q:Where do I install cgi scripts? A: By default, your account will be set up to run cgi (Perl) scripts in the cgi-bin directory. When you ftp into your site, this directory will be aliased to "mainwebsite_cgi" which translates to "/var/www/cgi-bin". It is probably a good idea to use subdirectories within the cgi-bin directory to keep your scripts organized.<P>Your cgi-bin directories absolute path (required in some instances) is '/home/virtual/yourdomain.com/var/www/cgi-bin'. It can be accessed th Q: How do I password protect a directory? A: There are many scripts available to help you password protect a directory. For the most part, they all use .htaccess and .htpasswd files to accomplish this. You also have access to password protect directories through your control panel. Q: I can't connect via Telnet! Why? A: Telnet sessions are not encrypted, therefore hackers are able to "sniff" your username and password as you log in. Because of this, usmhosting.com has instituted SSH in it's place. SSH is very much like Telnet, however it is encrypted. It does require a client program, and we recommend Putty. It is available for free at: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/. You will need to change the default SSH version to 2 also as usmhosting.com servers will not accept version 1 due to some security holes. Q: What are your name servers? A: primary: ns1.usmhosting.com 74.52.98.98 |
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