Website Management

Secondary Domains are “full-fledged” domains, that are not attached to the master domain in any way except that the feature limits are shared between the master domain and secondary domains. This means that if a hosting account has the ability to create 10 e-mail boxes, the master domain could have 5 e-mail boxes, and a secondary domain could also have 5 e-mail boxes, and that would be the limit for these accounts. Secondary domains have their own statistics pages, bandwidth recording, and web space.

How to: Add a Secondary Domain

Subdomains are domains of the form sub.mydomain.com. They point to the mydomain.com/sub folder when they are created.

How to: Add / Edit .htaccess Access Control

Click the Hosting Features menu item if it is not already open.
Click the Htaccess menu item.
Click the [ Access Control ] link for the directory you’d like to manage.
Choose the Access Order. The choices are “Deny first, then allow”, and “Allow first, then deny”.
Deny first, then allow – The ‘Blocked Hosts’ list will be evaluated first.
Allow first, then deny – The ‘Trusted Hosts’ list will be evaluated first.
Enter hosts or IP addresses on the Trusted Hosts and/or the Blocked Hosts text boxes.

Click the Hosting Features menu item if it is not already open.
Click the Htaccess menu item.
Locate the Per Directory Options section.
Choose the directory you want to create this .htaccess file in from the Directory drop-down menu.
If you would like this new .htaccess file to be immediately enabled upon creation, choose “Enabled” from the Status section.
Click the ADD button.

How to: Add a MIME-Type

Click the Hosting Features menu item if it is not already open.
Click the Htaccess menu item.
Click the [ MIME-Types ] link for the directory you’d like to manage..
In the “MIME-Type” column, enter the MIME-Type you would like to use for the given extensions. As you type, the field will auto-complete with various known MIME-Types. MIME-Types must be in the form: “<type>/<subtype>”.
In the “Extensions” column, enter a space separated list of extensions.
Click the ADD button.

How to: Edit a MIME-Type

How to: Add a Redirect Rule

Click the Hosting Features menu item if it is not already open.
Click the Htaccess menu item.
Locate the Global Directory Options section.
Click the [ Redirects ] link.
In the Redirect From column, enter the path, relative to webroot, that you would like to redirect.
In the Redirect To column, enter the URL you would like to redirect to.

How to:  Add an Apache Handler

Click the Hosting Features menu item if it is not already open.
Click the Htaccess menu item.
Click the [ Handlers ] link for the directory you’d like to manage..
In the “Handler”column, enter the Apache handler you would like to use for the given extensions. As you type, the field will auto-complete with the various default handlers in Apache.
In the “Extensions” column, enter a space separated list of extensions.
Click the ADD button.

How to: Edit an Apache Handler

How to: Add an Error Document

Click the Hosting Features menu item if it is not already open.
Click the Htaccess menu item.
Click the [ Error Documents ] link for the directory you’d like to manage..
In the “Error Code” column, select the error code from the dropdown list.
In the “Error Page” column, enter the path to your custom error document, relative to the web root. Alternatively, you can enter a fully-qualified URL to another page.
Click the ADD button.

How to: Edit an Error Document

Click the Hosting Features menu item if it is not already open.
Click the Htaccess menu item.
Locate the Per Directory Options section.
Click the checkbox next to the directory or directories you want to delete the .htaccess file from.
Using the drop down at the bottom of the list of directories, select “Delete …”.

Click the Hosting Features menu item if it is not already open.
Click the Htaccess menu item.
Locate the Global Directory Options section.
Click the DELETE button.
You will see a confirmation page. Click the DELETE button to confirm.

Click the Hosting Features menu item if it is not already open.
Click the Htaccess menu item.
Locate the Per Directory Options section.
Click the checkbox next to the directory or directories you want to disable the .htaccess file in.
Using the drop down at the bottom of the list of directories, select “Disable”.

Click the Hosting Features menu item if it is not already open.
Click the Htaccess menu item.
Locate the Global Directory Options section.
If a domain wide .htaccess file is currently enabled, you will see aDISABLE button. Click this button to disable the .htaccess file.

How to: Enable a directory specific .htaccess file

Click the Hosting Features menu item if it is not already open.
Click the Htaccess menu item.
Locate the Per Directory Options section.
Click the checkbox next to the directory or directories you want to enable the .htaccess file in.
Using the drop down at the bottom of the list of directories, select “Enable”.

Click the Hosting Features menu item if it is not already open.
Click the Htaccess menu item.
Locate the Global Directory Options section.
If a domain wide .htaccess file is currently disabled, you will see an ENABLE button. Click this button to enable the .htaccess file.

Click the Hosting Features menu item if it is not already open.
Click the Htaccess menu item.
Click the [ Hotlink Protection ] link for the directory you’d like to manage.
In the “Hotlink Protection Status” drop down, choose if you want the protection enabled immediately, or not. This option is useful if you’d like to turn your hotlink protection settings on or off quickly to see the difference, without deleting your hotlink protection settings and having to re-create them.

Click the Hosting Features menu item if it is not already open.
Click the Htaccess menu item.
Click the [ Index Management ] link for the directory you’d like to manage.
In the “Default Index Files” text box, enter a list of default index files, on per line. This setting affects when a browser requests a URL that ends in a ‘/’ (a directory). Apache will use this list of files to determine which file to serve. Apache will serve the first file found in the list, from top to bottom.

Click the Hosting Features menu item if it is not already open.
Click the Htaccess menu item.
Click the [ PHP Variables ] for the directory you’d like to manage.
For each option, there is an “Inherited” setting. When “Inherited” is selected, the PHP variable will inherit its value from the parent directory above. The displayed value shown next to the “Inherited” option is the value that will be used for that directory.
Adjust the PHP settings as desired.
Click the UPDATE button.
Available PHP Variables

How to: Set a Default Character Set

Click the Hosting Features menu item if it is not already open.
Click the Htaccess menu item.
Click the [ Default Character Set ] link for the directory you’d like to manage.
In the Default Character Set column, enter the default character set you’d like to use. As you type, the field will auto-complete with some of the more commonly used character sets.
Click the ADD button.
How to: Edit a Default Character Set

.htaccess is a file that you create in a web accessible directory to override default Apache settings on that directory and all of the directories inside of it. [If you don't want this, you need to create another .htaccess file in the subdirectory changing the setting you changed back to the default.] If the directory is writable by the web server you can create a .htaccss file from the File Manager.