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Hey guys, I'm still new to actually owning a website, and I need some help with some things.

First of all, any help with registering my FTP (hostgator) to Dreamweaver would be great, but what's really important at the moment is:

-How do I set up my webhost (hostgator) to my registered domain (Netfirm). Not sure how to do this since everytime I go to my site it says Netfirm.

-I also don't know how to set up a main page. I already have the page and all that made, just don't know how to tell HostGator to make it my index. Thanks, as you can tell I'm a newb and I'm just trying something new.
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RE: need help with hostgator stuff
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-I also don't know how to set up a main page. I already have the page and all that made, just don't know how to tell HostGator to make it my index. Thanks, as you can tell I'm a newb and I'm just trying something new.
just name the homepage index.html or index.php :)
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Interesting thing going on here, I'm going for word by word on the website on how to set up my web disk on Vista, and it says:

Manual connection instructions
1. From the desktop, click on Start and then Computer.
2. Then, click on Map Network Drive.
3. From that screen, click Connect to a Web site that you can use to store your documents and pictures, and then click Next.
4. Click Choose a custom network location, and then click Next.
5. Enter the following in the Internet or network address field:

    * http://holytank.com:2077

6. Enter your WebDisk username and password when prompted.


But when I put in the address it says "The folder you entered does not appear to be valid. Please enter another."

Thanks.

::EDIT::

It seems no matter what I do my FTP isn't working. It keeps telling me it can't connect to my FTP servers, not sure what the problem is.

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RE: need help with hostgator stuff
host gator servers usually have whm installed check this out
http://netfirm.com/whm
if netfirm is your url

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