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Basic Web Hosting
My Web Site Maintenance
Account
Customers who subscribe to Regzilla's Basic Web Hosting offering can
maintain their web site using the Web Site Maintenance Account and
password they supplied in the web hosting section of the domain
management interface.
This name and password may be different from the username and password
used
to access the domain management interface, since it must be unique to
the
web site, and a given customer may manage more than one web site.
It may take several hours for the changes to propagate for new web
sites, but
within about an hour the account name and password will be functional
for
posting web site content.
Uploading content to my web
site
It is recommended that customers use the hostname
"hosting.regzilla.com" for
uploading their content for the first day or so, and use the name
"www.domain.com" (where domain.com is your domain name) thereafter.
This will
allow customers to get their content onto the site quickly, even
before all
of the changes have propagated.
Customers can publish their web sites using FTP. There are several
variants
of this program, from the command line versions that come with
Windows, to the
graphical versions found on the Mac and at web sites like
Shareware.com.
Nearly any FTP client should work, including Microsoft's FrontPage web
publishing software (when configured to use FTP). Regzilla cannot
support
client FTP software, though it is relatively easy to use and often
comes with
online help or user documentation.
Connect using the account name and password you provided (don't use
any
"@domain.com" suffixes).
Once connected, you will see several directories. The two you will
most likely
be concerned with are called "htdocs" and "logs".
The "htdocs" directory is the root of your web site. This is where
all
your content should be uploaded. Content will be available
immediately to
anyone visiting your web site.
The "logs" directory contains the logs from your web site.
The "access_log" file contains the hits you've received, one per line.
The
"error_log" file holds all the errors the web site has encountered.
This can
be used to find broken links or other mistakes, but also contains the
URLs
of pages that people have mistyped or misspelled.
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