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Directories on your account

Directory structure of your account

WARNING: Our system contains many automated scripts and services that create directories and files within your account. DO NOT DELETE or change any of the directories or files that are located on the server that you did not create yourself. If you are ever in doubt about a file or directory, please, contact us to help you identify it.

Your web site is made up of a group of files and directories, much like your Documents folder on your home computer. Only in this case, everyone in the world can see some of your files. To give you an idea of how the directories and files work, we'll look at a view of the file manager.

Here is a list of the initial directories that you’ll find. Where it says domain this indicates your own domain name.

1. access-logs - This contains your access logs used
2. mail - This contains all POP mail accounts. This will also contain any mailing lists that you create.
3. public_ftp - This contains the directories for files that you wish to make publicly available via FTP
4. public_html - This is the folder where you put your website files
5. www - This is a shortcut to the public_html folder. You can treat these as the exact same folder. This one is just easier to type.
6. domain-secure - This too is a shortcut to domain-www except that when the server is requested to use secured pages, it uses this directory automatically.
7. tmp - This is a special directory that contains data for your account traffic. Do not delete this directory.

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