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Using your control panel Contents
Accessing your control panel
To access your domain control panel. Go
to http://cp.<your domain name> and enter your
domain user name and password. You will find these on the Email sent
to you when you singed up with BUILDANDHOST.
You should see a screen similar to this:-
You should see a control panel similar to
this:-
Your control panel allows you to control the
following aspects of you domain:-
- Configure you Domain settings
- Set-up e-mail on the domain name
- Change the password for FTP, if you have
specified an FTP account
- Configure your ODBC database (if you have this option installed)
- Configure your SQL database (if you have this option installed)
- Configure Password Protection (if you have this option installed)
- Change the password for logging onto their
Personal Control Panel
- View Matrix stats on the domain name (if
you have this option installed)
Email
Click on the Email icon to add or change
Email accounts. For full detail on Email account administration
click here.
FTP Accounts - Used to upload your website to the internet
Every BUILDANDHOST account comes with an
FTP account. This can be used for both uploading your web site or
storing data onto your web space. This option allows you to set the
password for you FTP account. Clicking FTP you should be presented
with a screen similar to the one below:-
Your server home directory for
your web pages is ftp://ftp.<your domain>/htdocs.
e.g
ftp://ftp.BUILDANDHOST.net/htdocs The ftp account also has its default
directory set to <your domain root>. This is so that you can use it
to upload your web pages if you upload to /htdocs.
You have 3 directories on you Web
site:-
<your domain root>/htdocs - This is for
web pages.
<your domain root>/private - For advanced users to store database files or
other private files.
<your domain root>/logfiles - Where your site log files are stored.
For help on the File system and
scripting click here.
You can however use you ftp
account to store files and other data in your root <your domain>, or any
other directory you want to make off the root without interfering with
your web sight. To do this you will need to log into your ftp
account using an ftp program.
This has been done to allow
you the flexibility to use your ftp account for other purposes. Note
that the you cannot access the root from within a web browser. This
is to provide protection of you files in the root by requiring you to
enter you ftp username and password to access them.
Note that any files stored
using ftp must comply with our standard terms and
conditions.
Matrix Stats
Matrix Stats is a website analysis package
written by Media House. BUILDANDHOST believes that Live Stats is the
finest statistics package available today and we are proud to be able to
make it available to our customers.
If you have Live Stats installed on your
domain, you will be able to view real-time statistics for that domain name
over the web. You'll get detailed, graphical reports on your visitors
including who is currently viewing your website. You can access these
reports without going through the control panel (see below).
If you would like live stats installed on
your domain.
Click here and fill in the fields in the Email.
Viewing Live Stats Once you have installed
Live Stats on a domain there are two ways you can view your statistics.
- Select 'Matrix Stats' on your control
panel
- Go to http://matrixstats.<domain name>
You should see a display similar to this:-
Note: After you install Matrix Stats on a
domain it will take a few hours for the server to kick in and the report
to become truly live.
Matrix stats
provides its own help and is there for not descried here.
Log Files
Log files are generated at real-time. A new
log file is created each day. Log files older than 5 days are
automatically removed
Analysing your log files
Our log files are standard W3C extended log file format. You can use any
statistics package to analyse them. BUILDANDHOST recommends Webtrends,
which is available from
WebTreands.
To access the log files, ftp://ftp.<your domain root>/logfiles - Where your site
log files are stored.
Change passwords
To change the password of you control
panel. Click on the change password button. You should see a
display similar to this:-
Where you can change your
control panel passwords.
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