1) Enduser ftp accounts, web sites
and emails
Creation of client ftp
account
Go to
http://66.36.238.26/admin and give
reseller user name and password allocated to you.
1) On
the hosting control panel click on the Accounts link on the
left.
2)
Click on the button on right called Add.
3) Give your User name and
password to be used for FTP and also your email id. It is preferable that
the user name be given as the domain name ie mydomain (without
extension)
4) Set the disk quota, account quota = 1, odbc dsn = 1 and
sql = 0
5) Do not add or delete any other items.
6) Click on the
button Add User.
7) Go back and check that your account ie mydomain has been created.
8) Note that this account name/user
name mydomain
will be ftp login name for the concerned domain and
also the hosting controller login for your client.
Website
Creation and Subdomain creation ex. info.mydomain.com
1) Click
on the link called Domains on the left.
2) Click on the button Add Site
on the right.
3) Type the name of your website for ex: mydomain.com. Do
not use "www".
4) Select the user from the drop down menu, that was
created in account creation steps before namely mydomain.
5)
Type the password (mail password) for accessing emails via web interface
and via mail client such as outlook express.
6) Do not add or delete
any other items.
7) Click on button called Add Site.
8) Proceed
towards mail creation by clicking on button > Next.
9) Give default
email user quota as 10 or whatever quota u wish to allocate.
10) Finish
the website creation.
1) Click on the link
called Domains on the left.
2) Click on the button Sub Domain on the
right.
3) Type the name subdomain
ex. info
and select the
website in the dropdown box.
4) Select the user from the drop down
menu, that was created in account creation steps before namely mydomain.
5) Type the password (mail password) for accessing
emails via web interface and via mail client such as outlook
express.
6) Do not add or delete any other items.
7) Click on button
called Add Site.
8) Proceed towards mail creation by clicking on button
caller Next.
9) Give default email user quota as 10 or whatever quota u
wish to allocate.
10) Finish the creation of the website
info.mydomain.com.
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2)
Testing FTP and Web based emails.
FTP
access
1) Use a suitable ftp client such as ftp voyager,
cute ftp or ws ftp,
2) Use host name as mydomain (if mydomain.com is
pointing to our server) or 66.36.238.26
3) Login name and password : as
given during account creation.
4) Your ftp root will show mydomain.com.
Double clicking on this will display 4 directories name www, db, special
and Log.
5) Directory www is for all your web pages, db is for
databases. Special and
Log should not be used at all.
Web
based Mail Access
1) http://66.36.238.26:8383/
2) Type
user name as : mailto:username@mydomain.com and
password : mail password given during website creation ie step 2
above.
3) This account is the host administrator account using which
you can create several other users.
4) For accessing emails via Outlook
Express use Incoming mail server POP: mail.mydomain.com.
5) Outgoing
(SMTP) server use your ISPs outgoing server.
NOTE :
Trying
to access mydomain.com (or any domain created by you) on the browser or
accessing mail via outlook express will not be functional UNLESS your
domain nameservers are updated to point to our servers.
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3)
Creation of DSN for connecting to MS Access database
1) Using a suitable ftp client
connect to the concerned website (mydomain.com)
2) Go to the db
directory.
3) Upload your MS Access database in this directory
4)
Close the ftp client and login to client's hosting control panel using
login mydomain
5) Go to the link ODBC DSN and give dsn
name (ex
mydsn), description: ms access.
6) Do not add anything else.
7)
Click on Add DSN
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4) MS SQL
database creation, DSN creation and testing.
1) Go to clients control
panel in hosting controller. ie the users under your reseller area.
2)
Goto sql server link on left
3) Click on add. Incase you get a message
that sql quota is unavailable then login to the reseller area in hosting
controller, quota link and allocate 1 sql quota to this client.
4)
Giver database name and password (ex
mydb)
5) Browse and select
db directory inside the domain.
ie path shud be
username/domainname/db
6) Click on Submit.
5) Next go to ODBC DSN
link on the left
6) Select SQL server in the drop down box on the
left.
7) Give DSN name (ex mydsn), Description as MS SQL
8)
Give SQL Database name ie mydb which was created earlier.
DO NOT
give give any extenison ie mydatabase_Data.mdf
9) No other additions or
changes.
9) Click on Add DSN
10) Now the database which is created
in the username/domainname/db
To test
the database connection via DSN upload the files emailed to you to the
www/tools directory (create tools directory) under the concerned
website.
ie : www.mydomain.com/mssql
Type www.mydomain.com/tools/dbtesting.asp
.
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5) Creation
of cgi-bin directories
1) Ftp to concerned domain and go to
www directory.
2) Create directory call cgi-bin under the www
directory.
3) Upload your scripts to this directory.
4) Incase it
does not work then login to hosting control panel as reseller.
5) Go
to the link called domains, select the concerned domains and click on
properties on the right.
6) Enable Executable permission for the
website which activate the execution of perl and php
scripts.
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6) Creation
of Web Statistics
1) Login as reseller in hosting
control panel.
2) Click on statistics link on left bottom
3) Click
on create.
4) Select the concerned website ie mydomain.com
5) Select
default account name under which the site is hosted.
6) Click on
submit.
7) For testing the url is www.mydomain.com/stats
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7) Branding
Hosting control panel with your logo
1) Make sure that the image already
exists in your website and is of the same size as the existing hosting
controller logo on the top left.
2) Login to reseller control
panel and Go to settings link on left.
3) Click on Displays.
4)
Check the box Allow Change Displays
5) Give image path : http://www.mydomain.com/mylogo.gif
6)
Give link path as : http://www.mydomain.com/mylogo.gif
7)
Refresh the control panel and see that your logo has replaced the hosting
controller logo.
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8) Using
your Private Name Servers
1) Go to settings link on
left.
2) Click on DNS settings.
3) Check the box Enable Reseller DNS
Settings.
4) Give DNS Primary Host ns1.mydomain.com and DNS Secondry
Host ns2.mydomain.com
5) Give Administrative Contact admin.mydomain.com
(note do not use @ )
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9) Changing passwords for reseller
account, ftp and email accounts
Changing reseller account
password
1) Login and
click on accounts.
2) Click on button called password on the
right
3) Follow instructions for changing passwords
Changing end-user ftp account password
1)
Login and click on accounts.
2) Select the end user account for which
password is to be changed
3) Click on button Properties on the
right
4) Select the checkbox "Change password also" and give new
password
5) Finish
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10) Managing
email accounts
Changing
end-user email hostadmin password
1) Login to your website :
http://mydomain.com:8383
2) Type login name and password and
login
3) Click on user administration, select user and change
password
4) The same procedure is to be followed for changing passwords
all other users
Adding email users
1) Login to your
website : http://mydomain.com:8383
2) Type login name and password and
login
3) User adminstration
4) Add user , give user name and
password.
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11)
Enabling JSP and Servlets and connecting to MS SQL database using JDBC
driver
1) Create your website as per instructions earlier.
2) Create
mssql database in db directory
3) Create dsn
4) Contact us for
setting up java access for jsp, servlets and jdbc.
5) Use
following for connecting to jsp to MS SQL database.
Replace
sql_dsn_name, sql_login_name, sql_password
below are as per the details given while creating the
database
###########
Connection connection =
null;
Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
connection =
DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:odbc:sql_dsn_name","sql_login_name",
"sql_password");
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Incase
you have any difficulty please contact your service
provider
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