Every customer gets his own password protected userid under Linux. By logging in to his userid, the customer gains access to his web storage space. Every userid "owns" a structure of disk subdirectories in the Linux file system. The "root" of this structure is the "home" directory, found at path "/home/userid".
Note that this is somewhat similar to the MS-DOS directory structure, except that there is no drive letter and forward slashes are used instead of backward slashes. The path referred to above, however is in relation to our own servers. When you FTP to your account using your domain name and userid, you don't need to put in "/home/userid." You will automatically be taken there.

Inside the home directory is a subdirectory named "www". Every customer has his own separate "www" subdirectory. Files placed in "www" are visible to remote browsers over the Internet.

Files that are located in your home dir are not visible to remote browsers. e.g. If you are uploading some web *.htm pages to your home dir instead of the www dir, you can not access them through http://www.yourdomain.com

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- Last modified on 3/16/2003 -