MyCP® Administration
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This document is an excerpt from the myCP® General Information document.
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View Account Details
The Account Details provides an overview of your account. The title bar shows your domain name and the account type. Server is the name of the shared server that your website resides on. The IP is the address of your primary domain, which can be used when the domain name is not registered or expired. The Additional Services list your add-on services, including for each service the start date, the end date, the number of months you are paying for the service, the monthly cost, and your total cost for the service for the given term.
File Manager
Our web based file manager has everything you need for fast, secure file management. Simpler to use than standard FTP clients, myCP® File Manager offers complete directory management. The functions in the File Manager are generally self-explanatory, similar to Windows Explorer. You simply click on the name of the file or folder at left to edit, open, rename, modify or delete the file or folder. Once inside any particular folder, you can upload file(s) to that folder.
There are several folders for each of your domains. Some of these are symbolic links (like Windows shortcuts) -- they all lead to the same primary folder. Therefore, just click on the folder with the name of the domain that you want to upload the website material into. Once inside that folder, you must open the folder called public_html and upload your content there.
Permissions (Unix): the File Manager lets you set the permissions for folders and files. The default folder permissions are sufficient if you are uploading standard web material but you may need to set permissions for a file or folder to Wide Open for certain web applications to function, or to Restricted for material which only your user account should have access to. Please be careful when opening up permissions -- if you set them to be too open, it can give hackers an avenue for attack.
Permissions (Windows): the File Manager lets you set the permissions for folders and files. You can set permissions individually for the owner account, the Launch IIS Process Account, and the IIS Guest Account. You can set permissions to No Access, Read Only, Read/Write, and Full Control. The default folder permissions are sufficient if you are uploading standard web material but you may need to set permissions for a file or folder for either of the IIS accounts to Read/Write or Full Control. Additionally, you may choose to restrict read access to certain file and folders to your own user account by changing the permission to No Access for both the IIS accounts. Please be careful when opening up permissions -- if you set them to be too open, it can give hackers an avenue for attack.
If you choose not to use the File Manager, you will need to use an FTP client instead. In some cases this is built in to your HTML editor.
Click here for detailed instructions on FTP usage.
IP Address Resolution (Unix only)
By default, your IP address resolves to the primary domain, which means that entering your IP address into a browser or FTP client will point you to your primary domain. This is useful when you do not have the domain name registered at a registrar but you would still like to upload files to your website or view it in a browser. If you have created other domains in the Domain Manager, you can use this drop-down menu to point your IP address to a domain other than your primary domain.
Rebuild Directories (Unix only)
This will rebuild any main directories, as well as anything else that needs to exist for your website to function properly.
It will rebuild only what is missing, it will not harm any existing files. It is intended to be used when you have accidentally deleted these system files yourself.
For those that allow anonymous Internet uploads through their website, this feature will also change the ownership of all uploaded files to your user.
