How to setup a domain
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[edit] How to setup a domain
- Click on Domains as shown in the picture:
- Click on
Add New Domain
- Select a Client from the list and click OK.
- Type your domain name into the box provided.
- If you have more than one IP address select the appropriate one from the drop down list.
- Click OK.
- Select Hosting Type and click OK.
Physical hosting
With this type of hosting, a web space will be created inside the Web server's directory, and necessary user accounts will be created on the server.
Frame forwarding
Frame forwarding allows you can forward your domain name to a site hosted elsewhere, but the forwarding will not be visible as the target address is masked.
Standard forwarding
With this type of forwarding the address bar reflects the URL of the actual site being forwarded to.
- If you select Physical Hosting, you will be presented with the following options:
- SSL support - To allow the domain to use Secure Sockets Layer encryption.
- Use a single directory for housing SSL and non-SSL content - With this optioned ticked you can place the secure content of your website in one folder.
- FTP Login* - Enter the login you would require to access your webspace for this domain.
- Old FTP password - If you already have the hosting setup enter your existing password.
- New FTP password - Enter a password of your choice, this will be used to access the webspace for this domain.
- Confirm password - Repeat password that you entered above.
- Hard disk quota - Specify the amount of disk space in megabytes allocated to the web space for this site.
- Shell access to server with FTP user's credentials - Allow user SSH access to the server with the FTP details defined above.
- Tick to enable the languages shown to suit your needs.
- You may wish to enable Web statistics, this will log traffic and other data.
- Once you are happy with the options, click OK to complete the domain setup.
- Click here on instructions on how to setup email accounts.
