Basic overview concerning your web hosting account

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Web Hosting Account Basics
Congratulations on your sign up of your Free Web Hosting package! In this section we'll explain the procedures and steps required to access your web hosting account.

Lets begin!

Hosting Username:

These are stated in the first paragraph of the welcoming email. Until you change them, they're needed to authenticate everything from FTP, to Email access, Control Panel, and MS FrontPage if you're using it. In short, use this Username and Password for any access you're attempting to your account.

Accessing your free web hosting account via FTP:

These accounts are accessed in the generally the same way as above. Again, if your domain name is not officially pointing to our servers yet, use profusehost.net and the Username. If you have additional questions regarding the ins and outs of FTP, please feel free to start a new topic in our support forum - http://www.profusehost.net/forum/support

Example:
ftp to: profusehost.net or yourdomain.com or subdomain.profusehost.net
Login: your_username
password: your_password

The public_html is where your web page files has to be placed

This is the directory, where files you want accessed from the web must be placed. Open the folder "public_html" , which is your "web accessible directory." Upload the files you want accessible to your visitors and feel free to make the appropriate sub-directories you'll require.

Accessing your Web Hosting Control Panel:

To access your control panel account manager, you can login into it with:

http://www.mydomain.com/cpanel or http://subdomain.profusehost.net/cpanel

Again, if your domain name is not pointing to our servers yet, you can use profusehost.net to gain access to your account (example: http://www.profusehost.net/cpanel/). Use your username/password which was included in your welcome letter.

PATHS

WWW directory /home/yourID/public_html

Root directory /home/yourID

Path to PERL /usr/bin/perl

Path to sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail

Where to upload your files:
The Home Directory:

/home/yourID/public_html

Your html files, and or the files you want to make accessible to the World Wide Web must be uploaded to your account. When you first FTP into your account, you'll be taken to your "Home" directory. Don't confuse this with your "web directory." The home directory is "not" accessible to the World Wide Web; it's a private directory where critical system files reside.


DO NOT delete ANY files that have been created by the system, otherwise your web site may disappear into cyber oblivion!

WEBMAIL

To access the webmail just type : http://yourwebsite.com/webmail or http://subdomain.profusehost.net/webmail or http://www.profusehost.net/webmail

User ID : your email address
Password : the password you created in cPanel

To Configure & Setup Mail Readers:

Outlook Express and Netscape Mail

Just configure your software like this :

Pop : mail.yourdomainname.com

Smtp : mail.yourdomainname.com

Username : youremail@yourdomainname.com

Password : what you created in you control panel