Starting With Your Account.

This document covers the following topics:

• How to login to your control panel
• Uploading your site
• Contents of your home directory

Logging In

You can login to your account securely using ssl by typing https://cp.host.ie . If you are behind a firewall, and cannot access this, you can try this http://cp.host.ie:8080

On the right hand side of the Control Panel login page you will see two text fields - for your username & password.
As can be seen in Screenshot 01 below.

Uploading your site

Whenever possible, upload your site using the utilities that come with your web-site development software. For instance, if you made your site with SiteStudio, FrontPage or Dreamweaver, use their integrated web publishing tools. If you made your site with simple text editors, or if your site-building software does not have a publishing utility, use freestanding FTP clients, such as CuteFTP, SmartFTP, or the built-in web-based FTP agent (WebShell3)

Contents of Your Home Directory

Your home directory contains several default subdirectories. Their number and names will differ depending on your plan (hosting package), yet some of them are common for all plans. Here are some of the directories that are automatically created and may not be deleted:

• Directories that contain your sites. Each of your sites is put in a separate directory. The name of the directory is the same as your site's domain name. Please refer to Example 1. If you have more than one site, you will have several such directories. These are the directories where you will upload your .html files or any other files that you want to make accessible from the Internet. Do not delete either of these directories! Your site is too valuable to lose at a touch of a button.
• The Logs directory. It contains directories for every site with transfer log enabled. Each such directory contains its own set of log files that are required to write and read the data about all visits to your sites (statistics). Deleting the Logs directory will cause the loss of the web statistics accumulated in the course of your site operation.
  
• The ssl.conf directory. This directory stores SSL pairs for all encrypted sites. Deleting the ssl.conf directory will result in incorrect SSL operation.

Warning: Don't delete ANY default directories in your root directory, as this will cause malfunctions of your account. As a rule of thumb, you may delete only directories and files you have uploaded yourselves or that have been uploaded by any of your Virtual FTP and Anonymous FTP users.

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