Your primary access to your webspace is via FTP [File Transfer Protocol], using either a specific FTP client such as Cute FTP or your web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer).
Using your web browser, type in the URL in the following format: ftp://USERNAME@www.DOMAINNAME.
To gain FTP access using Cute FTP for example, you will need to set Host=www.yourdomain.co.uk and use the username and password supplied by Opal when the site was set up. You may also request Opal to change the supplied password if required.
Having gained FTP access to your site you will see a minimum of four directories (folders).
etc - used to control access i.e. stop others entering, so do not change.
bin - similar to the above.
logs - holds the raw log files for your site used to create your website statistics.
public - also known as your web root directory and is where your website lives. Any html pages not in this directory (or below) will not show on your website.
You may create your own directories at this top level, normally to hold passwords or similar data you do not wish users to have direct access to.
File names and conventions
The default page (the one the server looks for when you do not specify a page as in http://www.mydom.co.uk) is index.html or index.htm, thus you should name your starting page index.html in the public directory. If you create any sub directories under public they to should also have an index.html page.
Unix servers are case sensitive and can tell the difference between picture.gif and Picture.gif. We recommend you always keep to lower case for file names. It also helps to keep to letter, numbers and '-' or '_' as spaces, as other special characters can cause problems.
