NOTE: This FAQ is primarily intended to supply amateur web designers with advanced knowledge of Web site design or professional Web designers with information that they may require in order to design or access a Web site that is hosted on a Westelcom Web server.

Default Home Page Files:
This is the list of files that the Web server searches in order to find which page to show to a site visitor. These files are listed in the order that the web server searches in and the first one found is the one that is displayed to the visitor. These are not case-sensitive.

• default.htm
• default.asp
• index.htm
• index.html
• index.asp
• home.htm
• home.html
• default.html
• default.aspx
• index.aspx
• default.php
• index.php
• index.cfm
• default.cfm

Default Scripts Folder:
The default scripts folder is set up for scripts that require Executable permissions (most times this is only needed by CGI/Perl scripts, but any scripts/files can be placed here).

• cgi-bin

Default Database Folder:
The default database folder is set up for Microsoft Access or other type database files to be put into. The folder is also set up to allow data to be written to the database file through interaction from Web pages.

• _database

Password Protect Your Databases:
It is highly recommended that, if possible, you password protect your databases.  This feature is confirmed as being available in Microsoft Access and Excel, however due to the many types of databases available we cannot confirm all have this feature.  Please contact your database software vendor if you require more information or assistance regarding your database security.

*Westelcom mySQL databases are setup with login credentials by default.

Connect To A Database Using a DSN-less Connection:
Westelcom only supports DSN-less connections to open a connection to your database.  There are a large variety of web sites available on the Internet that can outline how to set up a DSN-less connection using the coding language you have chosen.

Default Upload Folder:
The upload folder is set up to allow files to be uploaded to the server through interaction from Web pages.

• _uploads

Administrative Access Account*:
The domains numeric administrative account is used for a variety of administrative things, including:

• As the domains account for FrontPage access
• As the domains account for FTP access
• As an administrative domain email account via Webmail (example URL: http://mail.domain.com:8383)
• As the access account for LiveStats (http://livestats.westelcom.com)
• As the account for mySQL (http://mysql.westelcom.com)