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Welcome to the Freeola Internet customer support pages. This guide is designed to help guide you through setting up a domain name with Freeola. For more internet help topics please visit our main Support Page.
This guide describes in detail the process of hosting a domain and setting it up when purchased at (or transferred to) GetDotted.com. Once you have set up your domain name you will be able to use it for e-mail and a web site.
Please Note
For ease of reading, we've used the domain name 'example.com' throughout this guide. Simply replace references to 'example.com' with your own domain name where appropriate.
Each Freeola User has their own control panel (known as MyFreeola) where you can make changes to your e-mail addresses, host domain names, alter personal details and change passwords etc.
To log in visit MyFreeola and enter your e-mail address and MyFreeola password you used to buy the domain with.
Web pages, however created, are designed in a language called HTML. This stands for HyperText Markup Language.
Web pages are created on your machine initially and are made using web design programs such as Dreamweaver or Microsoft Front Page and can even be made in text editors like Notepad (part of Windows) by those who understand the HTML language.
Web pages are made available to Internet users (or uploaded) using a process known as FTP which stands for File Transfer Protocol. Programs which handle this process are known as FTP clients. Filezilla is recommended by Freeola Support as this is an easy and stable way of transferring your files from your machine to our webserver. We also provide a guide for using Filezilla.
The FTP client connects to the Freeola server in order to upload the web pages you have created and in order to do this you need three settings: the FTP Server, Username and Password. The FTP server name will need to be entered in the Host field, FTP Username in the Username field and the FTP Password within the Password field. Confirmation of all FTP settings can be found within the My Websites section of your MyFreeola account.
Once you gain access to the server you will be placed in what is known as your root folder. Depending on your hosting subscription you will see another folder with the name htdocs or public_html. This folder is where you should place any files you want to be published to the world on the web.
The Freeola server allows you to use the programming/scripting language PHP for advanced web pages. This is a major benefit and there is no extra charge for this powerful service. Filenames need to end with .php for PHP processing to take place. If your index page requires PHP processing use index.php as the filename.
Our Basic Guide to FTP and Webspace article should answer any further questions you may have.