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Account Glance
- The Account Glance section of the
Control Panel allows you to view the following basic information
about your account.
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Domain Name: Shows the
domain name of the account that is being used.
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Domain User: Shows the
username for the account that is being used.
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Domain IP: Shows the
Internet Protocol (IP) address of the account that is being used.
This domain IP address is equivalent to the alphabetical domain
name.
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Package: Shows the
package title under which this account is currently set up.
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E-mail: The e-mail
address of the account owner.
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Contract Length: The
duration of time in the contract for which you signed up.
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Status: Shows the
current status of the account. The various statuses are Normal,
Suspended and Grace Period. Occasionally, the status of
Deleted is also used though not necessarily on this screen.
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Signup Date: Shows the
date the contract and account were started.
Account
Management
The Account Management Option will give
you a detailed description of your Account Information. It includes your
username, your package option, your activation date, contract length,
etc. If you need to change any billing information, this is the place to do it.
Administrative
Link at the Top
This link takes you back to the main page
(screen shot above) from any area that you are in when you are within
the administrative suite.
Anonymous
FTP
Not available for all packages. Anonymous
FTP is the ability to upload and/or download files from a server without
having a login username and password.
Archive
Manager
The Archive Manager will allow you to
backup and compress your files. For example, if you have a number of
files for which you wish to keep a backup, you can select all the files,
then create a backup file that contains all of them in compressed
format. Note that the compressed file will count against your disk
quota.
Billing History
This option will show this account's
entire billing history. It will also display your current payment
balance.
Change Password
This will allow you to change your
password. Note that this will change the ftp and Control Panel password,
but *not* the email passwords for your different email accounts. To
change the email password, use the Mail Manager. Also, changing your
password here will not change your Front Page password and if you change
your password in the Control Panel, you will also need to change your
password in your Front Page program.
Control
Panel Language
The Control Panel Language setting allows
you to switch among English and Spanish. Once you have changed this
setting, all of the files in the Control Panel (all the tools, help
pages, etc.) will be displayed in the new language. Simply
reselect the other language to switch back.
Currently, the language
options available are English, Spanish and German. (The addition of
French is planned for the near future.)
1. From the Language
drop-down list, select the language for your Control Panel.
2. Select the Change Language button. The Control Panel reappears in
the selected language.
Counter
From this option, you can verify that the
counter program is installed for your account. Also, you can find
directions for setting up a counter on one of your pages. Finally, after
the counter has been installed on your pages, you can set the value of
the counter from here.
Email
Support
Contact We
Design Web Sites with all of your support questions.
File
Manager
The File Manager is a very powerful
feature. It allows you to manipulate all the files in your web site. You
are able to create, delete, and rename your files. You can also upload
files from your local PC to the server in File Manager. Plus, you can
edit the HTML in any of your files from this option. Everything you need
to manage your site can be found in this feature.
Never delete any file in
your domain that you did not put there. There must be certain files and
folders there in order for everything to work.
NEVER DELETE THE
FOLLOWING FOLDERS IN YOUR ROOT DIRECTORY:
- yourdomain-www
- yourdomain-secure-www
- www
- yourdomain-mail
- yourdomain-logs
- cgi-bin
- stats
Formmail
Formmail allows you to use a form to
receive email from your users. Formmail.pl is already set up in
our global cgi-bin and you call it in your forms like this:
/cgi-sys/formmail.pl Click on your Formmail icon to learn more
about what options you have to use with it. Note
that you cannot use this feature if you have Front Page Extensions
installed.
Mail
Manager
The Mail Manager is where you can manage
all aspects of your email accounts. You can add, edit, and delete email
accounts. You can also change the password on any of your email
accounts. Plus, if you have Mailing Lists installed, you would go here
to set them up. Finally, this is where you go if you wish to set up
email aliases. Click here for
some detailed instructions on how to set up your email accounts.
Mailing
List
This Options allows you to install the
Mailing List program. After it has been installed, you need to create
and maintain your mailing lists with the Mail Manager. You can also
remove the mailing list program after it has been installed if you do
not wish to use it.
Mime
Types
MIME Types allows you to set certain
programs to be used for specific extensions. For example, all files that
end in .ram would be set to use Real Player on the user's PC. Most users
do not need this feature. Note that you cannot use
this feature if you have Front Page Extensions installed.
MS
Front Page
The MS Front Page option allows you to
install Front Page extensions - which are necessary in order to use
Front Page with your site. You can also verify that they are installed,
or remove them if you do not wish to use them anymore. Front Page was
enabled when we set up your account.
MySQL
Database
MySQL is a database engine that you can
use with your web site. This feature of the CP will allow you to create
a new MySQL database, and manage it. You will be able to add/edit/delete
tables, fields, and values. You can also run queries on the database.
Network
Trouble Shooter
The Network Trouble Shooter allows you to
perform a traceroute from our server to your local PC. You may also
trace from your web site on our server to any other location on the
Internet. A traceroute shows the path that information travels over the
Internet to go from one location to another. If you are experiencing
slowness or problems when connecting to your web site, you can use this
to see a snapshot of where the problem is occurring. If you can't get to
your site, there are
instructions on how to do a trace route from your computer here.
Newsletter
This option will display the different
issues of our newsletter
PGP
This option will allow you to set up your
PGP key on the server. This allows you to use PGP in your scripts or
with our PGPMail script. You must first have PGP installed on your local
PC, and create a PGP key pair before uploading the key to the server.
PGP is necessary if you use our shopping cart because any information
sent through email is not safe even if you take the information on a
secure server. (see the PGPMail icon for instructions on how to use
it)
PGP
Mail
PGPMail is simply the Formmail script,
except that it encrypts the email via PGP before it is sent to the
client. This option includes directions for using PGPMail. Note that you
must upload your PGP key before you can use this script. Note
that you cannot use this feature if you have Front Page Extensions
installed.
Protect
Directories
Using this option, you can
password-protect any directory you own (make sure you don't password
protect that main directory, though!). This will prevent users from
viewing the contents of a directory unless they have permission (ie. you
give them the username and password). You can set any number of users
using this feature. Note that you cannot use this
feature if you have Front Page Extensions installed. If you have a
directory that you do not want to be password protected, please contact
us.
Redirect
URL
Redirect URL allows you to set up a
redirection so that user that type in one URL will automatically be sent
to another URL. Note that you cannot use this
feature if you have Front Page Extensions installed. If you have a page
that you wish to redirect, please contact us.
Resource
Meter
This shows how much server space and
bandwidth (transfer) you have taken up. To say a little about transfer:
If you have a page that is 25k in size and 3 images that are 25k each
and a midi file that is 75k, then when someone looks at that one page,
it will take up 175k worth of transfer.
Resources
Available
The Resources Available
section of the Control Panel displays how many of your account's
resources have been used and how many remain free. The following
resource statistics are displayed here:
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Disk Quota: Displays the
figure, in megabytes, of how much disk space your account has used
and how much remains available to you.
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E-Mail: Displays the
number of e-mail accounts you already have and the number that are
still free for your use and set up.
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Mailing List: Displays
the number of mailing lists you are currently maintaining and the
number you can still set up.
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Transfer: Displays the
amount of data that has been transferred via the current account.
Search
Engine
This feature will allow you to install
and manage the Web Glimpse Search Engine on your site. This Search
Engine will allow your users to perform searches from your web
site.
Secure
Server
This option is for if you want to install
a secure certificate that you purchase out at http://www.thawte.com/
If you do not want to have your own certificate, you can use ours to
call your domain pages securely.
Shopping
Cart
Not available for all packages. The
Shopping Cart feature installs or removes the AlaCart Shopping Cart
program on your site. After it is installed, you are given directions
for managing the Cart.
Site
Creation Tool
This is a graphical web-based program
that gives you the ability to set up your web site from scratch, without
any knowledge of HTML, or the use of a program like MS FrontPage. After
the site is created, you can make it your main domain's page, or you can
have it as a subdirectory under your main domain.
Site
Statistics
The Site Statistics feature gives you
access to your site's web statistics, such as hits, transfers, etc.
If you are having trouble understanding how to interpret those results,
go to this site: http://www.netstore.de/Supply/http-analyze/results.html
SSH
If you need telnet access to our servers,
it can only be done using SSH. We have it set up to use RSA
authentication. You will need to create a key using your PC's SSH
software, then use this feature to upload the key to our servers. Once
it is uploaded, you will be able to connect to our servers using SSH
after contacting us to enable SSH on your server. You will need to
fax us a copy of your driver's license and your signature before we can
enable it. Please email us for instructions.
Submit
Site to Search Engines
Most of the links here are
outdated. See our Marketing Guide or e for recent and comprehensive search
engine links.
Upgrade
CP
This is the area where you can upgrade
your account automatically at any time of day. If you find out
that you need more space, just click this button and you can upgrade in
a matter of minutes.
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