Already hosted with another provider? Want to move your website to Ausweb? This tutorial will outline the steps required to migrate your website and email accounts to your new Ausweb account.

.htaccess File Hosting Tutorial

In this tutorial you will find out about the .htaccess file and the power it has to improve your website. Although .htaccess is only a file, it can change settings on the servers and allow you to do many different things, the most popular being able to have your own custom 404 error pages. .htaccess isn't difficult to use as it is really just made up of a few simple instructions in a text file.

Firewall Settings for Common Web Hosting Services.

If you are having trouble accessing cPanel, emails, ftp, etc, you may be having firewall port forwarding issues as certain ports need to be activated for these services to work.

The process of changing host providers is simple and can be accomplished with minimal hassle and downtime provided certain steps are followed in order.

Congratulations on your purchase of your new cPanel Web Hosting package!
In this section we'll explain the procedures and steps required to access your cPanel Hosting Account.

Lets begin here !

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.

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

http://www.mydomain.com/cpanel

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

WWW directory /home/yourID/public_html

Root directory /home/yourID

Path to PERL /usr/bin/perl

Perl modules Click to view

Path to sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail

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!

We follow ARIN guidelines. The only sites that will be sold dedicated IPs are :

Reseller accounts that use Private Name Servers
eCommerce SSL Sites

To access the webmail just type : http://yourwebsite.com/webmail

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

Outlook Express and Netscape Mail

Just configure your software like this :

Pop : mail.yourdomainname.com

Smtp : mail.yourISP-smtp.com

Username : This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Password : what you created in you control panel

For full tutorials please see Email Tutorials