Accessing
Your Site on the Web
Your account has been assigned a unique IP
address that identifies it from the other
computers on the Internet. It is comprised
of a series of four, numerical fields separated
by dots (e.g. 207.159.xxx.xx). You will be
given this IP address as soon as your order
has been processed. With this address you
will be able to access your web server at
any time through your favorite browser by
simply typing it into the address bar.
Note: This IP address may
change from time to time to support our
network infrastructure and growth.
Because you want your Web
server to be easily accessible on the Internet,
you purchase and register a domain name
(e.g. yourdomain.com) to point to your computer’s
IP address. This is explained in the Registering
a Domain Name section of this guide. Once
done properly, you can access your site
using the domain name instead of IP address
as illustrated below:
http://216.122.55.xxx
http://www.yourdomain.com
Your account, along with
files on your account, is accessible through
a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). Because
your visitors will access your site on the
Internet, the URL is preceded with the HTTP
protocol: http://www.yourdomain.com.
All files placed in the
/htdocs directory on your account will become
available to the public, most commonly index.html,
default.html, etc. If you create folders
beneath this directory and files in those
directories, then visitors to your site
will access those files using a path that
starts with /htdocs. For example an index.html
placed in a sales directory beneath /htdocs
will be accessed using the following URL:
http://www.yourdomain.com/sales/index.html
You do not need to include
the file name in the URL as long as you
provide it with one of the following names:
default.htm
default.html
default.asp
index.htm
index.html
index.asp
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