Entering http://www.examples.com/products into the Redirect from field and http://www.examples.com?param1=yes in the to field, will take all the http://www.examples.com/products visitors to the http://www.examples.com?param1=yes page.

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If you leave the

Redirect from field empty, visitors will be redirected from any location in the site. In the

to field, you can enter URLs with parameters, as illustrated in the screenshot above.

Leave

Redirect status as is unless you want to change the default:

 Permanent: returns a permanent redirect status (301) indicating that the resource has moved permanently.

 Temporary: returns a temporary redirect status (302). This is the default and indicates to the client that the resource has moved temporarily.

 See other: returns a “See Other” status (303) indicating that the resource has been replaced.

 Gone: will cause a visitor‟s browser display “The requested resource is no longer available on this server and there is no forwarding address. Please remove all references to this resource.

” message when trying to go to the „to‟ URL.

Windows-based accounts

In Windows plans, redirect works in a slightly different manner:

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 The exact URL entered above redirects requests for any files in the indicated directory to one file. For example, to redirect all requests for products.html file to the following URL: „www.example.net‟, enter www.example.net/products.html in the

To field and select this option.

You can redirect requests to URLs with parameters, for example www.examples.net/?param1=yes

*Note: you can redirect requests for files and directories both to your own site and to any other external URL.

 A directory below this one redirects a parent directory to a child directory.

- For example, to redirect your „examples.net/products‟ directory to a subdirectory named „news‟, enter „excample.net/products/news‟ in the „to‟ text box and select this option. Without this option, the Web server will continually map the parent to itself.

 A permanent redirection for this resource sends the following message to the client: „301 Permanent Redirect‟. Redirects are considered temporary, and the client browser receives the following message: „302

Temporary Redirect ‟. Some browsers can use the „301 Permanent Redirect‟ message as the signal to permanently change a URL, such as a bookmark.

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Directory Indexes

This tool allows you to set your own index pages instead of those specified in the default settings. In other words, you can tell your visitors ‟ browsers which page to load as they hit your domain. Usually, it ‟s /index.html by default, but you can set any other custom welcome page.

Example: If a visitor goes to your site http://www.example.com, the first page to open will be http://www.example.com/index.html. However, if you set

/welcome.html as the directory index, the page to open will be http://www.example.com/welcome.html.

Warning: your custom index pages won ‟t add to the defaults; they will replace them.

Therefore, make sure to enter the full list of indexes you would like to have in your configuration.

 To set your custom directory indexes:

1 Go to

Domain Setting > Web Options for the domain you need.

2 Scroll down to find the

Directory Indexes option and click to enable it.

Agree with the charges if any.

3 In the box that appears, enter the names for files that will be treated as indexes. Put file names in the descending order of priority and separate them with spaces (for example, index.html cgi.bin about.html).

4 Skip this step if you are using a Windows-based plan. At the top of the

Web Service page, click the Apply link for the Server configuration to change. The changes will take effect within 15 minutes.

5 To edit the list you have made, click the

Edit icon next to the Directory

Indexes option: with spaces (index.html cgi.bin about.html).

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If you are using a Unix-based plan, click the Apply link at the top of the Web Service page.

Error Pages

Use this utility to define what will be done if a requested page on your site is missing or fails to open for any other reason. In order to specify your own Error Documents, you need to be slightly familiar with the server returned error codes:

Successful Client Requests

200 OK

201 Created

202 Accepted

203 Non-Authoritative

Information

204 No Content

205 Reset Content

206 Partial Content

Client Request Redirected

300 Multiple Choices

301 Moved Permanently

302 Moved Temporarily

303 See Other

304 Not Modified

305 Use Proxy

Client Request Errors

400 Bad Request

401 Authorization Required

402 Payment Required (not used yet)

403 Forbidden

404 Not Found

405 Method Not Allowed

406 Not Acceptable (encoding)

407 Proxy Authentication

Required

408 Request Timed Out

409 Conflicting Request

410 Gone

411 Content Length Required

412 Precondition Failed

413 Request Entity Too Long

414 Request URI Too Long

415 Unsupported Media Type

Server Errors

500 Internal Server Error

501 Not Implemented

502 Bad Gateway

503 Service Unavailable

504 Gateway Timeout

505 HTTP Version Not

Supported

 To configure Error Pages:

1 Go to

Domain Setting > Web Options for the domain you need.

2 Scroll down to find the

Error option and click the Add icon on its right.

3 In the form that appears, enter the error document settings:

 For Unix accounts:

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 Error Document Code: choose the one you need from the drop-down box.

 Message or URL: the path to the page with ERROR message

IMPORTANT: if ErrorDocument 401 is chosen in Error Document Code, the path must be relative to the local user

‟s site home root

 Type: Specify if the text in the previous field must be treated as a URL (Redirect) or as a text message ( Message).

For Windows accounts:

Users will get a slightly different form to enter the path to the custom error page. Note that the path should be relative to the home directory, not to the virtual host directory.

If you check

FILE:

 only static error page files can be used;

 the same error page files for this domain can be shared with other account domains.

For instance, with the following file path, all account domains will share this error page: pages\404_error.html

 use the “\” character as a delimiter in the file path;

 do not start the file path with “\”.

If you check

URL:

 it will allow you to use scripts (php/ASP) to dynamically generate error pages

(alternatively, use static error page files for each type of error page);

 error page files for this domain can ‟t be shared with other domains;

 “Path to Custom Error page” must be relative to the virtual host and start with “/”.

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Server Side Image Map

This feature allows your server to regard files with a specific extension as map files. In other words, the server checks the file with the specified extension to define the links of an image (unlike a client-side image map, which uses the information inserted into the

HTML code) and reports back to the browser where to go.

 To add an image map file extension:

1 Go to

Domain Setting > Web Options for the domain you need.

2 Scroll down to find the

Server Side Imagemap option and click the Add icon on its right.

3 Agree with the charges.

4 Enter the file extension beginning with a dot:

MIME Types

This utility allows defining file formats that are not defined in web browsers. This enables the browser to display or output files that are not in HTML format, just like it displays simple text files, .gif graphics files and PostScript files.

 To add a definition for your own file format:

1 Go to

Domain Setting > Web Options for the domain you need.

2 Scroll down to find the

MIME Type option and click the Add icon on its right.

3 Agree with the charges.

4 On the page that appears, enter the extension for this file type:

5 Begin file extension with a dot. The MIME type must comply with

MIME type specifications, for example, text/rtf or video/mpeg.

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WAP Support

WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) is a secure specification that allows users to access information instantly via handheld wireless devices such as mobile phones, pagers, two-way radios, smartphones and communicators. Although WAP supports HTML and

XML, the WML language (an XML application) is specifically devised for small screens and one-hand navigation without a keyboard. WAP also supports WMLScript.

To add support for WML or WMLScript, add the following MIME Types (on page 49):

Content

WML Source

Compiled WML

WMLScript source

Compiled WMLScript

Wireless Bitmap

MIME Type text/vnd.wap.wml application/vnd.wap.wmlc

File Extension

.wml

.wmlc text/vnd.wap.wmlscript .wmls application/vnd.wap.wmlscriptc .wmlsc image/vnd.wap.wbmp .wbmp

Reverse Traceroute

This net troubleshooting tool allows you to ping any Internet host from your hosting server. In other words, you can use this tool to determine if a host is reachable and how long it takes for the signal to go all the way through.

 To launch the Reverse Traceroute tool, do the following:

1 Select

Trace Route link in the Domain Settings menu.

2 In the form that appears, enter the host name or the IP address of the server you would like to ping:

3 Select the time-out period. If you see the connection is slow, select a bigger period.

4 Click

Trace and wait for the result. The next page will show all the hosts that were passed to reach the target server.