Once you have created your new account with AUSWEB, you can access it using the details provided in your web hosting welcome email. If your domain name is not officially pointing to our servers yet, use the IP address and the Username which was sent to you in your welcome email.

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.

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.

Congratulations on your purchase of your new AUSWEB Hosting solution.
In our Client Area Guide we'll explain the procedures and steps required to access your AUSWEB Client Area and Hosting  Account Details.

We hope you will enjoy our  Tutorials and indepth knowlege of the different aspects of your online business creation

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 cPanel, you can login into in with:

http://www.mydomain.com/cpanel

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/). You may 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 as this could render your site and/or account unusable.

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, use the following template URL:

• http://yourwebsite.com/webmail
• User ID : your email address
• Password : the password you created in cPanel

Outlook Express and Netscape Mail

Example configuration:

• Pop : mail.yourdomainname.com
• Smtp : mail.yourISP-smtp.com
• Username : This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Password : what you created in you control panel

For full tutorials please see Email Tutorials