Control Panel Features

Control Panel Overview

The Administration Suite (or Control Panel) makes managing your web space fun and easy.  This extraordinary interface offers you a way to quickly view account-related information and provides easy access to the wide variety of tools and utilities that come with your account.  With the click of a mouse, you can administer your web space, e-mail accounts, directories, cgi-bin (program script storage area) and all the special features offered, including site statistics and shopping carts.  You can even add additional features to your account whenever you need them.  Gain control and flexibility to make changes within your own time frame and according to your own particular business needs.

Account Information

The Account Information section will give you a detailed description of your account information.  It includes your domain name, your domain user name, your domain IP, any parked domains associated with your domain, your contract length, the status of your account and your account signup date.

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:

Disk Quota: Displays the figure, in megabytes, of how much disk space your account has used and how much remains available to you.

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.

Mailing List: Displays the number of mailing lists you are currently maintaining and the number you can still set up.

Transfer: Displays the amount of data that has been transferred via the current account.

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.

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. Always remember that for your files to show up on the web, they *have* to be in the "www/" folder (or "yourdomain-www/", which is the exact same folder).

Do not ever delete anything that you did not put there. There must be certain files and folders there in order for everything to work.

Folders to never delete in your root directory are:

"yourdomain-www/"
"yourdomain-secure/"
"yourdomain-mail/"
"yourdomain-logs/"
"www/"

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.

Mail Blocker

The Mail Block in your Control Panel allows you to block spam at the server level one address at a time.

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.

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. Please note we cannot provide support for Mailing Lists.

MS Frontpage

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.  If you are going to be using Front Page to publish your site always make sure you install the extensions first before doing your initial upload.

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.

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.

Formmail

Formmail allows you to use a form to receive email from your users. Directions for using Formmail can be found under this option. 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.

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 Frontpage Extensions installed. You would need to use Frontpage itself to perform this function.

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 Frontpage Extensions installed.

Search Engine

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.

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.

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 will not need to use this feature. Also, note that you cannot use this feature if you have FrontPage Extensions installed.

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)

PGPMail

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.

MySQL Database

MySQL is a lightweight and popular relational database that you can use with your web site. This feature provides a grphical user interface that 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.

SSH

If you need telnet access to our servers, it can only be done using SSH. You will need to fax us a copy of your driver's license and your signature to 205.680.4691 before we can enable SSH for your account.

Web Site Builder

This interactive tool is available to help you build your web site from scratch.

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, a traceroute may help in debugging these issues.

Submit to Search Engines

This script will automate the submission of your site to several search engines.

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