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 How do I get started?
 Domain transfer
 Is my domain active?
_ _ 403 Errors
_  _Site Viewing
f    My Page Shows Blank
 E-mail setup
_  _Outlook Express
_  _Netscape

 Web Based Email
_  _What is it?
_  _Sending Email
_  _Deleting Email
_  _Address Book
_  _Languages
  __Signatures
_  _Mailbox locked
 PHP
_  _What is it?
_  _Examples
 FTP
 Control panel
_  _Password protecting
_  _File permissions
_  _Updating details
 Custom errors
 Perl/CGI scripts
 SSI (Server-side      includes)
__  Syntax
__  Example
 Frontpage
 Database use
 Securing your data
_  _Backing up
_  _Protecting your       password
 JSP (Java server       pages)
 Account Information
_   System Abuse
 CDO for NTS
 Site statistics
 Send Mail
 How do I
       Check disk-space?
       Unix/Linux-NT4
       Win2k
       Check bandwidth?
       Install custom          
          components?



 


Control Panel

Adam Moffett Design now offers Web Based control panel for all clients. Our implementation supports the following features on each platform.

Win2k

  • Ability to change file permissions
  • Change Password
  • Create DSN's
  • Change NTFS permissions
  • Password protection
  • Enable JSP support
  • Backup and Download Site
  • Re-install FrontPage 2002 server extensions


Common to each platform are

  • Email Manager
  • Check Disk Space
  • Change Password
  • View Site Statistics

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Login

To login to the control panel you will need to visit https://control.nshosts.com/. Please note the control panel is located on a secure page. You will notice the secure padlock


Main Menu
Once logged in to the control panel you will be presented with the following graphic.
This is the main menu of the control panel and gives you an overview of your account and a description of what each of the buttons do.
It also shows the following items of importance.
Domain User Name : - The domain username is used to log in to many servers such as FTP, Statistics, Mail and SQL servers.

Server IP : - The IP Address of the server in which your domain is being hosted on. You can use this if ever your domain is not resolving to access your data via HTTP and upload via FTP. Please note you can not use the IP address to publish via FrontPage, your domain must resolve.

 

Manage Domain

The email manager allows you to set up and manage email accounts for your domain. This includes setting up creating and removing accounts. Please see Click here for more details on creating and managing accounts. See Click here for help with Outlook Express, Click here for help with Netscape and Click here for help on using Web Based Email.
Use this button to check the amount disk space used by your account. All accounts get 100mb free each month and additional usage is charged at $5US per 50mb and you will be automatically notified by email at the end of the month of any extra space your domain consumes.
We recommend that you change your password on a regular basis and do not disclose this to anyone.

Adam Moffett Design runs a comprehensive statistics program for our users. It includes logging of referrers, hits, session and more. Visit the control panel to view your statistics. Your Server ID to login to the statistics is your username and this can be found in your welcome email.. The statistics are usually about 6 hours behind in displaying your statistics for Windows accounts and 24 hours for UNIX clients. If you wish to password protect your statistics you can do so by logging in to the statistics and clicking on 'Virtual Admin'.

Please note that our Statistics Server runs off TCP port 81. If you have problems accessing your statistics server from the control panel ensure that you have TCP port 81 open in your firewall.

Use this button to create an ODBC connection. Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a widely accepted application programming interface (API) for database access. You will need to include the DSN name the database type and the path. If the database type is not listed (such as FoxPro or MS SQL) please open a ticket and request this to setup.

We do recommend in all cases that you use a DSN-LESS connection. Please click here to see a list of connection strings.

This process gives the NT user 'IUSR' read and write access to any files or directories you specify. It effectively gives a specified file the ability to be replaced or updated by a process such as an ASP script. It is most commonly used for Access Databases. Ensure you apply these permissions not on the database but on the folder so that any temporary files created by the database can be written.. If you are using password protection and are accessing the database via Windows authentication you will need to contact us to change the permissions.
This process gives the NT user 'Everyone' read and write access to any files or directories you specify. It effectively gives a specified file the ability to be written over or replaced by a process such as a cgi or asp script. If you are using password protection and are accessing the files via Windows authentication you will need to contact us to change the permissions.

Click on this button to password protect files. This will actually create a Windows user, please make sure you record the user/pass and make sure you keep the first two letters of your domain as the first two letters of the username. This does NOT create an FTP account, it password protects a file or directory for HTTP (web) access.)

You can not remove the password protection or change the user name and password with out contacting us. If you require passwords to be constantly set up and change we suggest you use a script to do this.

Use this button to enable JSP on your domain. This will automatically create a virtual mapping to the server scripts directory (you cannot have an existing directory called scripts or it will become unavailable) which contains the necessary DLL to support JSP. It also adds a host entry for your site into the configuration file of the JSP engine. Once you have done this any .jsp file will run in your domain.
Click here for more details on JSP.
Click here to install or re-install FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions on your website. Once re-installed your will be able to publish to your domain. Please see Click here for more details on FrontPage Publishing.
Ensure you always have a local backup of your data at all times. Click on this button to download a backup of your site. Your domain must resolve to our servers to be able to download your backup zip file.

Help

If you require a method of getting from a form to an email address then you can use our free form mail script. If you have any problems getting this to work please start off with just our code alone and then work from there. Pay special attention if you are running this off the SSL server.
If you require a clock or hit counter on your site click here to find out how to implement this.

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