Site Manager 

Your control panel includes a powerful Site Manager application that allows you to control almost all of the traditional UNIX-environment commands from a convenient, web-based interface. You can even create/edit web pages and upload files from the Site Manager. We hope that the Site Manager is essentially self-explanatory. A few things to consider when using the application include:

1. The Site Manager browses and controls only those files and subdirectories within your www subdirectory. You cannot access files or directories within your home directory structure -- telnet and/or FTP are still the best options to control this area of your account.



2. While it is possible to create/edit your web pages and/or to control all uploads to your account from your Site Manager, the application is designed primarily as a way to make "quick and easy" changes to your account. There are much simpler and more efficient ways to handle large-scale editing and uploading. Extremely large file uploads may be subject to server timeouts. We strongly recommend purchasing a good FTP program for large-scale publishing.



3. Certain portions of the Site Manager (and other portions of the entire WebControl system) may be temporarily disabled from time to time due to newly-discovered security or other issues. We make no guarantees or warranties regarding the usability of any function of the WebControl system.

Navigating within the Site Manager

The "Subdirectories" column displays one level of subdirectories at a time. When you first access the Site Manager, you'll see a listing of all subdirectories one level below your www directory, and in the "Files" column, you'll see all the files that reside in your www directory. To view subdirectories or files within a subordinate subdirectory, simply click on the directory name, and you'll move into that subdirectory.

Clicking on the directory name will display all subdirectories and files within that particular directory.

You can continue navigating deeper into that subdirectory using the same technique, or you can return to the www directory by clicking on the "[higher level directory]" link.

File or Folder Properties

To view the properties of any file or folder, and/or to change permissions on the file or folder, click on the icon ( or ) next to the file or folder name.

That will bring up the Properties dialog box.

A Note on File Permissions

File Permissions may be specifed numerically (e.g., 755, 777) or alphabetically (e.g., rwxr-xr-x). The Site Manager's "Set Permissions" function uses the alphabetic specification. In the alphabetic method, the first three characters refer to Owner permissions, the second set of three characters refers to Group permissions, and the third set of three characters refers to World or Everyone permissions. Some common numeric to alphabetic translations include:

777 755 700 666 600

rwxrwxrwx rwxr-xr-x rwx------ rw-rw-rw- rw-------

Example: To set file permissions on a file named anypage.html to 755, check the following boxes:

	Read	Write	Search/Execute
Owner:
Group:
Everyone:
File name: /www/yourdomain/anypage.html

Another way to translate numeric to alphabetic is to understand what the numbers represent. In the three-digit numeric permissions setting, the first digit refers to the Owner, the second digit refers to the Group, and the third digit refers to the World/Everyone. Use the following table to translate the permissions:

Digit	Permissions
0	None
1	Execute Only
2	Write Only
3	Write and Execute
4	Read Only
5	Read and Execute
6	Read and Write
7	Read, Write and Execute

 

 

 

Source: http://www.hostingmanual.net/plusmail/sitemanager.shtml