Setting Up a Web Site

To set up a Web site:

  1. Go to Home > Domains group title menu > Create Domain.
  2. Select your account and click Next >>.
  3. Specify the following settings:
  4. Specify the domain name that was previously registered with a domain name registrar. Leave the www check box selected if you want to allow users to access the site by a common and habitual URL like www.your-domain.com.
  5. If you have previously created a domain template and predefined all hosting features and resource usage allotments (as described in the chapter Simplifying Setup of Web Sites), select the required template from the Select template menu.
  6. If you have a number of IP addresses to choose from, select the required address from the Select an IP address menu.

    Bear in mind that e-commerce sites need a dedicated IP address (not shared among other sites) to implement Secure Sockets Layer data encryption.

  7. Select the Mail and DNS check boxes.
  8. Select the Physical hosting option to host the Web site on this machine.
  9. Type in the username and password that will be used for uploading Web site content over FTP and Microsoft FrontPage (available only for Windows hosting).
  10. Select the Configure advanced Web hosting settings check box and click Next >>.
  11. Specify the following settings:
  12. Click OK.

Now the server is ready to accommodate the new Web site, and you can do the following:

To learn what else you can do with your Web site through the control panel, see Managing Web Sites.

To learn what else you can do with e-mail accounts through the control panel, see Managing E-mail Services.