ivCity Website Hosting & Design

User Manual & FAQ

This manual was designed to give assistance with setting up your site and using the various features we offer. We will continue to update this manual as more questions arise.

Logging into your account using online control panel (cPanel)

Accessing your POP3 email accounts using other programs

What is the path to...?

mySQL

Using Formmail - Used for emailing forms

Using FTP

Using SSI (Server Side Includes)

How do I change my billing information?

How can I link to ivCity WebHosting?

Logging into your account using online control panel (cPanel)

In your cPanel, you are able to manage things such as your files, subdomains, custom error pages, CGI scripts, and email accounts. You may login to your cPanel using one of three ways:

Using the login botton on our site, labeled "cPanel"
Or http://www.ivCity.com/cPanel
Or http://www.yoursite.com/cPanel

Accessing your POP3 email accounts using other programs

Note: For security reasons, such as to keep others from sending email through your SMTP server, you must first check/receive your email before sending a new message. Here are the paths to POP3 & SMTP:

What is the path to...?

Basic paths:

Paths to perl and other:

mySQL

mySQL is installed, however, it is generally not supported due to the complexity of the program.

Using Formmail - Used for emailing forms

This a very useful CGI script, and is a very easy to use form processor. Simply modify this code with your domain:

This form can be greatly customized. Please refer to Matt's Script Archive for lots more information on form configuration.

Using FTP

Two of the best and most popular FTP clients are WS_FTP and Cute_FTP, which can both be download FREE. Your FTP account can be reached by using the following:

Using SSI (Server Side Includes)

SSI is another great, very useful feature. It is important that any files you use SSI tags in, must end in .shtml, not .htm or .html. Here are some of the most popular tags:

Browser Output (on screen) SSI Command Code

The Current Date and Time:
Tuesday, 30-Sep-2008 18:49:37 CDT The Current Date and Time:


The Previous Web Page:
(none) The Previous Web Page:


Your IP Address:
38.103.63.60 Your IP Address:


Your Browser Type and OS:
CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html) Your Browser Type and OS:


This Web Page File Name:
manual.shtml This Web Page File Name:


This Web Page File Size:
11k This Web Page File Size:


This Web Page Last Modified Date:
Sunday, 20-Jan-2008 22:44:38 CST This Web Page Last Modified Date:

If you want your date to look like this: Tuesday September 30 2008

<!--#config timefmt="%A %B %d %Y" -->

<!--#echo var="DATE_LOCAL" -->

If you want your date to look like this: 09/30/08

<!--#config timefmt="%m/%d/%y" -->
<!--#echo var="DATE_LOCAL" -->

Here is the entire list of Time Format codes:

Full Name	Abbreviated Name
%A Full weekday name	%a Abbreviated weekday name
%B Full month name	%b Abbreviated month name
%Y Full year	%y Abbreviated year
%D Date as mm/dd/yy	%d Day of the month
%H Hour as 1 - 23	%I Hour as 1 - 12
%M Minutes 0 -60	%m Month of the year 01 - 12
%R Time as %H: %M	%r Time as %I: %M: %S: %p
%p a.m. or p.m.	%T Time as %H: %M: %S
%S Seconds as 0 - 60	%Z Time zone name

The last major one that you may want to use, is the include function:

This is great for creating a single file that contains, for example, all your menu information. This way, when you change a menu item, you just change this one file.

How do I change my billing information?

To change your billing information, login to your PayPal account that you created at sign up.

How can I link to ivCity WebHosting?

Simple! You may either create your own text link to www.ivCity.com, or you may use this graphic: