Urbancolo Shared Hosting Account FAQ's

1. How do I log into the Site administrator Control Panel?
2. How do I set up new Email users in Outlook or Outlook Express
3. What are Urbancolo's DNS Servers?
4. How do I access my Urbancolo MYSQL account?
5. How do I set up mailing list?
6. How do I check my websites traffic statistics?
7. How do I set up new site administrators
8. How do I access my users personal webpage
9. How can I change my password as the site administrator?
10. How can I change my password for my email account?
11. What kind of scripting languages does my account support?
12. How can I access my sites CGI BIN?
13. How do I upload files to my website?
14. Technology Key Word Glossary

1. How do I log into the Site Administrator Control Panel?

All Urbancolo Virtual hosting accounts come with an easy to use graphical user interface. The Control panel can be found at : http://www.yoursite.com/cp/


2. How do I set up my email in a POP3 Client?

Open Outlook Express

• Go to Tools --> Accounts.
• In the 'Internet Accounts' window, click on Add -->Mail

Follow the steps through the Internet Connection Wizard:
• Enter your name, click 'Next'
• Click the option 'I already have an email address...' and enter "your username"@yoursite.com.
• Click 'Next' Choose the 'POP3' option for server.
• Enter yoursite.com' as the incoming mail server and yoursite.com' as the outgoing • Click 'Next' Enter"(your username)" for 'account name' and enter your password. You may also check the box for 'remember password'.

• Click on next --> Enter User name & Password
• Click 'Next' Click 'Finish'


3. What are Urbancolo DNS Servers?
ns1.urbancolo.com IP Address:66.250.32.194

ns2.urbancolo.com IP Address:66.250.32.195


4. How do I access mysql Account
http://www.urbancolo.com/phpMyAdmin/index.php


5. How do I set up a mailing list for my website?
Log into your control panel at http://www.yoursite.com/admin/, click on list manager.Create new list,name the list, save the list,and add your email addresses.


6. How can I check the traffic statistics for my Website?

Log into your control panel at http://www.yoursite.com/admin/, click on the site atatistics button,and the sites traffic stats will appear.


7. How do I set up new site administrators?
Log into your control panel at http://www.yoursite.com/admin/, click on the user management button, add new user,and click on the site administrator before saving the new user.


8. How do I access my users personal webpage?
Log into your personal webpage control panel at http://www.yoursite.com/users/username/


9. How Can I change the password for site administrators?
Log into your control panel at http://www.yoursite.com/admin/, once you have logged in, click on the user management button. Click on the blue buton next to the user to change the users settings.


10. How can I change the password for my email account? Log into your personal webpage control panel at http://www.yoursite.com/users/username/,once you have logged in, simply change the password in the password field, and save.

11. What kind of scripting languages does my account support?All Urbancolo accounts come with Perl support, Unix hosting account come with PHP,Windows accounts support PHP, and ASP.

12. How can I access my websites personal CGI BIN?
All Urbancolo Accounts some with Perl support, simply create a folder called CGIBIN in the main web folder of your site.


13. How do I upload files to my website? You may FTP into your site with any of the standard FTP applications. The address is yoursite.com (No ftp in front) Use your login name and password for entry.Fow windows user we suggest using Aceftp, it's free,powerful, and very simple. For macintosh users we suggest using the Fetch client.

14.Glossary of Commonly used Technology Word

Applet: A small application executed through a Web browser, typically written in Java.

Active Server Pages (ASP): A Web page that uses the ActiveX scripting technology to create dynamic sites.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS): A standard that gives designers more control of how text and links are displayed in a Web browser.

Common Gateway Interface (CGI): A specification for transferring information between a World Wide Web server and a CGI program. CGI programs are the most common way for Web servers to interact dynamically with users.

Extensible Markup Language (XML): XML is designed especially for Web documents. It enables the definition, transmission, validation, and interpretation of data between applications and organizations.

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP): HTTP defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions Web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands.

Java: Java is a general purpose programming language with a number of features that make the language well suited for use on the World Wide Web.

JavaScript: A scripting language developed to enable Web authors to design interactive sites.

Open Source: A certification standard issued by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) that indicates the source code of a computer program is made available free of charge to the general public.

Perl: Perl is a programming language especially designed for processing text and is the most popular language for writing CGI scripts.

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. A script language embedded within a Web page along with HTML used to interpret and perform various operations.

Structured Query Language (SQL): SQL is a standardized query language for requesting information from a database.

SSL Encryption: Secure Socket Layer - Commonly used for managing the security of message transmission.

Web Server: A computer that delivers (serves) Web pages. Any computer can be turned into a Web server by installing server software and connecting the machine to the Internet.