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Account Management
The Account Management
Option will give you a detailed description of you Account Information. It includes
your username, your package option, your activation date, contract length, etc.
AnonFTP
This
Option sets up anonymous FTP to allow users to upload and download files to and
from your site.
Archive Manager
The Archive
Manager will allow the user to backup and compress their 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.
Billing
History
This Option
will show this account's entire billing history. It will also display your current
payment balance.
Change Password
This will
allow the user to change their password. Note that this will change the ftp and
Control Panel password, but *not* the email password. To change the email password,
use the Mail Manager.
Counters
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.
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 move 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.
Formmail
Formmail
allows you to use a form to receive email from your users. Directions for using
Formmail can be found under this option.
Help
The Getting Started Page is the one that
you are currently in. It gives a brief summary of all the features of the Control
Panel.
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.
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 do not need to use this feature. Also, note that you cannot use this feature
if you have Frontpage Extensions installed. You would need to use Frontpage itself
to perform this function.
MS Frontpage
The MS Frontpage
option allows you to install Frontpage extensions - which are necessary in order
to use Frontpage with your site. You can also verify that they are installed,
or remove them if you do not wish to use them anymore.
MySQL Database
MySQL is
a database engine that you can use with your web site. This feature of the CP
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.
Nameserver
Using
this feature, you can set up your own virtual Name Servers, which allows you to
register your site using name servers with your own domain name.
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, you can use this to see
a snapshot of where the problem is occuring.
Newsletter
This
option will display the different issues of the company newsletter
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.
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.
Protect Directories
Using
this option, you can password-protect any directory you own. This will prevent
users from viewing the contents of a directory unless they have permission. 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. You would need to use Frontpage itself to perform this function.
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.
Shopping Cart
The Shopping
Cart feature installs or removes the AlaCart Shopping Cart program on your site.
After it is installed, you are given directions for managing the Cart.
Site Creation Tool
This
is a graphical web-based program that gives you the ability to set up your web
site from scratch, without any knowledge of HTML, or the use of a program like
MS FrontPage. After the site is created, you can make it your main domain's page,
or you can have it be a subdirectory under your main domain.
Site Statistics
The Site
Statistics feature gives you access to your site's web statistics, such as hits,
transfers, etc.
SSH
If you need telnet access
to our servers, it can only be done using SSH. We have it set up to use RSA authentication.
You will need to create a key using your PC's SSH software, then use this feature
to upload the key to our servers. Once it is uploaded, you will be able to connect
to our servers using SSH.
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