This chapter gives a brief description of the different options available in your Control Panel which is available at http://yourdomain/menu . When you receive your IP address, you may also use http://IPaddress/menu until your domain name is ready. Note that not all of the features may be available to you as we consistently update our service.
Click on any of the links below to learn more about each Control Panel feature:
When you enter the control panel, it is divided
into three areas. The upper left hand corner shows your account status, disk
quota, how much disk space you have utilized and how much is remaining in your
plan.
The Account Management Option will give you a
detailed description of you Account Information. It includes your username, your
package option, your activation date, contract length, etc. Not that you will
need to know this, but in the Account Management area is where you can cancel
your account.
The Archive Manager will allow the user to backup
and compress their 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.
This will allow the user to change their
password. Note that this will change the ftp and Control Panel password, but
*not* the email password. To change the email password, use the Mail Manager.
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.
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 move 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.
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.
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 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 to use this
feature. Also, note that you cannot use this feature if you have FrontPage
Extensions installed. You would need to use FrontPage itself to perform this
function.
The MS Frontpage option allows you to install
Frontpage extensions - which are necessary in order to use Frontpage with your
site. You can also verify that they are installed, or remove them if you do not
wish to use them anymore.
MySQL is a database engine that you can use with
your web site. This feature of the Control Panel 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 if you need to. We
do not provide technical support in using MySQL outside of what is provided on
your control panel. Please refer to MySQL's
Web Site for complete tutorials and troubleshooting solutions and
documentation. This is an excellent resource
.
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.
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.
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.
Using this option, you can password-protect any
directory you own. This will prevent users from viewing the contents of a
directory unless they have permission. You can set any number of users using
this feature. Note that you cannot use this feature if you have FrontPage
Extensions installed. You would need to use FrontPage itself to perform this
function.
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 FrontPage Extensions
installed. You would need to use FrontPage itself to perform this function.
This feature will allow you to install and manage
the WebGlimpse Search Engine on your site. This Search Engine will allow your
users to perform searches on your web site.
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.
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 be a subdirectory under
your main domain.
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.
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