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Your web space on Windows Server

If you selected Windows Server as the hosting platform when you placed your order, your web space will be organized this way.
Web space structure on Windows Server
  1. Home folder
  2. Data folder
  3. Secure web pages folder
  4. Web documents 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 "Users", on a drive called "D:". A user name such as "example" would therefore have a full filesystem path as follows:

    • D:\Users\E\example
  2. Data folder
    This folder is called data, and contains Access database files. Upload your Microsoft Access .MDB database files here.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 use Microsoft FrontPage, your website is automatically published to 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, Default.htm, Default.asp (if the home page is an ASP script), or Default.aspx (if the home page is an ASP.NET application).

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

  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.