Understanding the File System
Domain Name
Each domain name hosted on our system has a "home directory". Within
this directory, you store all the HTML files, images, scripts, databases
and any other content associated with your website. When logged into the
home directory of one of your domains using FTP you will see the
following folders:
htdocs
This is the folder that the website for the domain name points to.
Inside this folder, you should place your index.htm file as well as any
other HTML files, scripts and images that make up your website.
private
This folder is for advanced users. Scripts running on your site have
access to this folder but the folder is not directly accessible form the
web. You should place any databases your site uses in this folder. If you
are using Password Protection for one of your websites, this folder is
good place to put your password text file.
logfiles
Every time someone visits your site, the system updates the current log
file for your website. Your log files are stored in this folder and you
can download them and delete them as you wish.
Your Default Home Page
When your site is accessed on the web using just your domain name,
without specifying a particular web page, the server will attempt to find
a default file in the htdocs folder to display as your home page. The
server will first look for a file called index.html, but if no such file
exists it will look for the following files listed below:index.html,
index.htm, default.htm, default.html, index.shtml, index.shtm, home.html,
index.asp,default.aspHence your home page will need to be given one of the
names in the list above to be displayed by default. If the server is unable
to find any of the listed filenames in the htdocs folder then it will
display the error "Forbidden - You don't have permission to access / on
this server".
Writing your own server side scripts
When writing or configuring scripts, such as Perl scripts or ASP
scripts for your website you may need to know the full physical path to
your website's home directory. This path is as follows:
To find out the paths for your scripts. Download this
perl script and put it in you cgi-bin
directory. Then goto your browser and www.<yourdomain>/cgi-bin/env.cgi
where yourdomain.com is your domain name (without the 'www').
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