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General Account Information

The Index Page

SSL (Secure Pages)

9+ Character Names

Webstats and Access Logs

Checking Server Space Usage

Changing Your Password

Password Protection (.htaccess)

File Manager

Merchant Shop v1.5

General Account Information

To access the control panel using SSL (Secure Web) use the url https://www.domain_name.com:2083

To recap, port :2082 is your control panel using http (non secure web)
and port :2083 is your control panel using https (secure web).

To allow your email users to check their mail using webmail use the url:
http://www.domain_name.com:2095 , thats port :2095 for webmail users.

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General Account Information

Every customer gets his own password protected userid under Linux. By logging in with his userid, the customer gains access to his web storage space. Every userid "owns" a structure of disk subdirectories in the Linux file system. The "root" of this structure is the "home" directory, found at path "/home/userid." Note that this is somewhat similar to the MS-DOS directory structure, except that there is no drive letter and forward slashes are used instead of backward slashes. The path referred to above, however is in relation to our own servers. When you FTP to your account using your domain name and userid, you don't need to put in "home/userid." You will automatically be taken there.

Inside the home directory are many files and other directories. The most important one is named "public_html". Every customer has his own separate "public_html" subdirectory. Files placed in the "public_html" directory are visible to remote browsers over the Internet, so this is where you want to place all your html documents, graphics, sounds, files, etc. which you want people to be able to access from the world wide web. For example, when a browser asks for URL http://yourdomain.com/page.html, Apache looks for the file: /home/username/public_html/page.html and sends it out.

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The Index Page

The filename of your home page should be index.htm or index.html. The webserver will automatically send the file at path /home/username/public_html/index.htm when a browser specifies http://www.yourdomain.com. When your account is set up, there will be an index.html page already installed. This just tells anyone accessing your domain that your site is under construction and will be available soon. You will replace this file in the public_html directory with one of your own creation. If you wish to use any of the cgi features we provide that use Server Side Includes (SSI), you must name your page with the .shtml extension. You can put an index.html file in any subdirectory that you wish, and it will be the default page served when you don't want your visitors to have to type a full page URL reference, for example, http://www.yourdomain.com/whatever instead of http://www.yourdomain.com/whatever/index.htm, or http://www.yourdomain.com/default.htm.

You may use any of the following for a homepage of a directory:
index.htm , index.html ,  index.php , index.phtml , index.shtml , index.php3 , default.htm , default.html
default.phtml , default.php , default.php3

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SSL (Secure Pages)

You can secure your website using our 128bit Thwate Super cert.
To secure your site you simply need to access it via

https://private.vosn.net/~username
For example for site joe.com and your username is joe
http://private.vosn.net/~joe

If you do not know what secure number to use please contact support to request that information.

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9+ Character Names

A name of anywhere from 3-26 letters is legal for email accounts, FTP accounts, and telnet accounts. There is no limitation for file names on the server.

Web Stats and Access Logs

To count accesses, there is an online section of your CP called stats. To access it, just log on the Internet and with your web browser, go to:

http://www.yourdomain.com.cpanel
click the stats menu

You will see a breakdown of the various tools available to your for measuring traffic and tracking users. If you are a brand new domain, you won't see any statistics there yet.

You will also see links in the stats area to view your log files. You can access these file and open it in any browser to see exactly what files were accessed, what domain the visitor came from, the dates and times of each visit, etc.

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Checking Server Space Usage

You can find out how much space is in use by the www files for your domain by using your CP. At your main page when you log in you will see the space used and space available to your site. Another way is to telnet to log into your account and then from the Unix prompt, typing the following:

du -s /home/username

This will give you a report back of the number of kilobytes (k) all files in your www directory add up to.
 

Changing Your Password

To change your password login to your CP and click the change password feature in the menu. Another way is to telnet to your account. After logging in with your username and password, at the Unix prompt, type: passwd

A script will ask you to type in your old password, then the password you want it changed to will be asked for twice to verify. This will not work for POP-only accounts. To change the password for a POP you need to click the email link in the left menu, the click add/remove accounts. You will see a list of accounts on your site along with options to the right to delete the POP and change your password for that pop.

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Password Protection

This is also another feature that can be accomplished in the CP by clicking the Password Protection link in the left menu.
1. You will then be taken to your main web dir of your site with a listing of the folders in it.

2. Click the link to the folder you wish to pprotect or click the folder itself to open that folder and navigate to a dir under it.

3. To protect the dir once you have clicked the link of that dir , click the lock icon and give your area a name in the box labeled "Prtected Resource Name".

4. Next scroll down to the bottom of that page, there you will find input boxes to enter the usernames and passwords
of users you wish to have access to that dir.

Or to password protect via telnet:

If your home directory is yourlogin, create a file named .htaccess in your web directory that contains the following:

    AuthUserFile /home/yourlogin/yourdirectory/.htpasswd
    AuthName Secure
    AuthType basic
    require valid-user

Then in your home directory, type htpasswd -c /home/yourlogin/yourdirectory/.htpasswd pumpkin.
You will be prompted to enter a password and verify it.

This will enable you to secure the directory so that only user pumpkin can enter this directory.

 To add additional id/password pairs to the file, leave off the -c, which means 'create a new file'. For example, htpasswd .htpasswd linus. You may well want any of the user/password combinations you created in your .htpasswd file to allow access.

 Note that you want to store the .htpasswd file in your home directory so it is hidden from others. The one drawback to putting your .htpasswd file in your home directory is that you will have to slightly lower the security of your home directory. Go to /home (cd /home/yourlogin) and type chmod +x yourlogin. The WWW server needs execute permission on to read the .htpasswd file.

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File Manager

Included with your site is a script that allows you to edit your files and create password protected dirs thru your browser. This script is installed and ready for use simply by clicking the "File Manager" link in the left menu.

Click on the folder to navigate through that dir, click a file to edit,delete, rename, or modify it.