Your web space on Unix

1. Home folder
2. Secure web pages folder
3. Web documents folder
4. CGI scripts folder
5. Custom error pages folder

1. Home folder
   The home folder has the same name as your user name, and contains all your documents and folders. When you log in to your account, this is the folder you are placed in.

   Home folders are located within a system folder named after the first letter of your user name. In turn, this is located in a folder called "u". A user name such as "example" would therefore have a full filesystem path as follows:

   • /u/e/example
2. Secure web pages folder
   This folder, called secure_html, contains secure web pages. Web pages stored in this folder are encrypted using SSL, or "Secure Sockets Layer", when they are visited.
3. Web documents folder
   Your web documents folder is where you upload your website pages. This folder has the same name as your website. Put all web pages, subfolders, images, media files, and other documents into this folder. If you host more than one website in your account, you will have a separate web documents folder for each site.

   The home page of your website must be a file called index.html, index.htm, index.php (if the home page is a PHP script), or index.cgi (if the home page is a CGI script).

   Caution: Web document folders are special folders. Never delete, then recreate web document folders, as this may make your website unusable.

4. CGI scripts folder
   This folder is called cgi-bin and is located inside the web documents folder. It contains CGI scripts. Any file placed in this folder will be run as a CGI script, regardless of its name, as long as it has the correct file permissions.

   To run CGI scripts located outside of the cgi-bin folder, the script file must have the .cgi file extension, such as script.cgi.

5. Custom error pages folder
   This folder is called error, and is always located inside the web documents folder. Upload your custom error pages here.