Login Login

Adding a Web Domain

Your guide to pathway services

Revision as of 14:12, 3 February 2014 by Pathway Admin (Talk | contribs)

Jump to: navigation, search

NOTE: Before specifying your website domain refer to the DNS section to make a DNS entry.


To get to the Websites page:


  1. Click on the Sites tab.
  2. From the sidebar locate the Websites section.
  3. Select Website.


Webdomain1.PNG


To create a new website/web domain:


  1. Click on Add new website.
  2. Select the Domain tab. (You should be directed here by default.)
  3. From the IPv4-Address dropdown list, select the IPv4 address for the website. (all available IP addresses) Use as default.
  4. (Optional) From the IPv6-Address dropdown list, select the IPv6 address for the website. (This is currently disabled for all users. IPv6 will be introduced in the near future and we will make an announcement after it becomes available.)
  5. In the Domain field, enter the domain name for your website. (e.g.example.com)
  6. In the Harddisk Quota field, enter the maximum disk space available for your website in MB.
  7. In the Traffic Quota field, enter the maximum allowable traffic per month (in MB) that is available for the web site.  (-1 means unlimited. By default, -1 is not allowed for shared instances of Hostpath.)
  8. Select the CGI checkbox to allow the webhost to execute cgi scripts in the cgi-bin directory.
  9. Select the Perl checkbox to enable perl scripts to run if mod_perl is installed. Run *.pl scripts from within your document root and subdirectories and not from cgi-bin.
  10. Select the Pythoncheckbox to allow the web server to execute Python scripts (file extension .py).
  11. The Auto-Subdomain field is enabled by default and is pointed to www. , if you would like to disable this feature make a selection from the dropdown list.