So, you've got a hosting account with us. Wonderful! Read this page through and you should have your web site running in no time. Skip through it and you're going to be doing a lot of research whether you are a beginner or an advanced user.

The first steps were paying for your hosting service and getting the DNS records set to our server. If you bought your domain from us it automatically set the DNS records to our server. If you bought it elsewhere you will need to log in to the .

For our examples we're going to use a hypothetical domain and passwords as follows:

Domain: http://www.example.com
Login: trythis
Password: try222this
Details: 25 MB disk space, 500 MB bandwidth, 5 email accounts etc.
FrontPage: Activated. Username: tryfp; Password: try222fp.
Shared IP: 207.44.194.14
Activation:
Email Activated: bob@example.com

Initial Upload

To begin with you'll want to upload your site. However it takes anywhere from 12 to 24 hours from the time the DNS records are "set" until the various nodes around the world update to recognize it and make your domain available. If you use FrontPage or another custom upload-assist program you'll have to wait. However if you use an FTP program (Dreamweaver does use FTP) you can upload immediately by using the IP instead of your web site. So where you would normally put example.com, you can put in 207.44.194.14 for the domain name, trythis for the login, try222this for the password, and you'll want to type in httpdocs for the folder to put your files into. Now you can upload before the domain has resolved. After the domain has resolved the only change you'll want to make is to replace the IP number with your domain name.
Your front entry page needs to be named either index.html or index.htm. In setting up your domain we put a home page there called index.html. When setting up your name we gave it a dummy front page called index.html:

If you haven't overwritten it with your own index.html page you will need to delete it.

Once you have uploaded your web site you can immediately look at the pages even before the domain has resolved by going to http://207.44.194.14/~trythis in your browser.

FrontPage Extensions

If you are using FrontPage you can NOT use the IP address (207.44.194.14) at any time, which means you can't upload until the domain has resolved. When setting up, your domain is www.example.com; username tryfp; password try222fp. If you have access to FTP, do not use it if you plan to use FrontPage extensions because FTP tends to corrupt FrontPage, and you'll have to delete them and upload them again in order to use FrontPage on the site.
Unlike FTP, with FrontPage you do not need to input the httpdocs folder to load your site into: FrontPage defaults there automatically and will get confused if you tell it to go there.

Domain Control

You have great control over your site through our cPanel control panel. Make sure you familiarize yourself with the users manual. You can access your personal control panel at http://yourdomain.com/cpanel. (substitute your domain name for the words 'yourdomain'.). Your user name and password were in the introductory email sent to you when you first signed up.

As you can see the panel is filled with various features. The users manual will describe each of them for you and give step-by-step use instructions.

Email

One initial email address has been set up for you. Usually it would be your first name. Please note that for email your user name is the name of the email account you are wishing to access. So if the email address you want to reach is bob@yourdomain.com your username would be bob.
Through your control panel you can set up more email addresses (up to your assigned limit), and you can alter the one created for you. Three different things to note about email passwords:

1. On the initial email address your password was set the same as your FTP password. This was done for simplicity and is NOT desirable for long term security.
2. To be able to read your various email addresses correctly you must never use the same password for more than one email box.
3. For security passwords must have a mix of numbers and letters and must not contain the username. To access your email go to http://www.example.com/webmail. There your username is bob and your password is try222this. Note that your user name is the name of the email box--each email account you create IS its username.

Don't let this confuse you: you read, sort, send, and receive email here in your webmail panel. But you create and alter email addresses in your cPanel control panel.

Finally, a reminder that you can have all your email automatically downloaded into your regular email program on your computer, and send through your Evanly WebHost account from your computer email program as well. See our help file titled 'Receiving Your Email In Outlook Express'. It also works for other email programs.

Basic Server Paths

Here's a few notes on the paths for specific types of files uploading to the server for those who desire to use features requiring them.

Where to put Perl/CGI scripts:
/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/YourDomain.com/cgi-bin
In other words, the CGI-BIN folder is outside the main folder. However note that you can execute CGI scripts in any directory, not just the cgi-bin directory.

The path to Perl:
/usr/bin/perl
In most CGI scripts the standard path line is therefore: #!/usr/bin/perl

The path to sendmail:
/usr/lib/sendmail
/usr/sbin/sendmail

More Help

We've provided this quick start intro but it doesn't end there: we have more help files; there is our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page; and most importantly the cPanel users manual. While our support is ready to assist we do request you do a quick check prior to emailing us with your questions and doing so will probably be just as fast.