Here you will find some common steps and procedures for getting your account up and running at TextDrive.

• 1. Welcome to TextDrive
  • 1.1. Default Account Structure
  • 1.2. Account Logins and Important URLs
  • 1.3. TextDrive Status and Forum Feeds
  • 1.4. Moving to TextDrive
• 2. Billing and Account Information
  • 2.1. Changing your account username
  • 2.2. Changing your billing information
  • 2.3. How to upgrade/downgrade an account
  • 2.4. Changing your email address
  • 2.5. Adding a Technical Contact
  • 2.6. Cancelling your account
• 3. Account Access and Configuration
  • 3.1. Changing passwords on your account
  • 3.2. Rules for Creating Good Passwords
  • 3.3. Checking the available disk space for your account
  • 3.4. Will I be warned before I exceed my bandwidth allotment?
  • 3.5. Running shell commands through WebMin
  • 3.6. What version control systems are available?
  • 3.7. Which libraries and modules do you have installed?
  • 3.8. Accessing phpinfo(); information
  • 3.9. Is register_globals on or off in PHP?
  • 3.10. Creating your own php.ini
  • 3.11. How do I switch something to PHP4?
  • 3.12. Using PHP includes
  • 3.13. Enabling Directory Listing
  • 3.14. Setting index.html as the default index
  • 3.15. Password protecting a directory
  • 3.16. Enabling Error Logs
  • 3.17. Enabling Server Side Includes
  • 3.18. Changing the default character set from UTF-8
  • 3.19. Using mod_rewrite with virtual subdomains
  • 3.20. Proxy your Trac site to a tracd with Apache
  • 3.21. How do I publish my users' public directory?
  • 3.22. Server Timezone
  • 3.23. Blocking user agents from stealing your bandwidth and content
  • 3.24. Backing up your site with rsync and SSH
  • 3.25. Can I install and run WebGUI on a shared or business account?
  • 3.26. Can I use FormMail?
• 4. Connecting to your Account
  • 4.1. SFTP Access
  • 4.2. Jailing an SFTP Account
  • 4.3. Fingerprints of Servers’ SSH public keys
  • 4.4. Dreamweaver and WebDAV
  • 4.5. Getting Shell Access
  • 4.6. SSH Tunneling
  • 4.7. WebDAV and Write Access
  • 4.8. What is WebDAV and how do I use it?
  • 4.9. Changing your shell
• 5. Email and Mailing Lists
  • 5.1. Adding/Editing an Email User
  • 5.2. Adding/Editing a Mail Alias
  • 5.3. What is IMAP?
  • 5.4. Setting up your email client for IMAP Access
  • 5.5. What are the email ports?
  • 5.6. What is the email size limit at TextDrive?
  • 5.7. Adding a postmaster@mydomain.com address
  • 5.8. Creating a mailing list
  • 5.9. Changing your mailing list admin password
  • 5.10. Setting up an email auto-responder
  • 5.11. Server-side Spam Filtering
  • 5.12. Mapping one or more email addresses to an existing mailbox
  • 5.13. Transferring email accounts from another host
• 6. Working with Domains
  • 6.1. Adding a Domain
  • 6.2. Changing a Domain Name
  • 6.3. Creating an Alias Server to a Domain
  • 6.4. Creating Virtual Subdomains
  • 6.5. Making a Subdomain independent
  • 6.6. Switching DNS name servers over to TextDrive
  • 6.7. Nameserver IP Addresses
  • 6.8. Previewing a domain prior to moving DNS
• 7. Setting up SSL (HTTPS) on your site
  • 7.1. Conditions and Pricing
  • 7.2. How to Order
  • 7.3. SSL and proxying
  • 7.4. Generating SSL certificates yourself
• 8. Custom and 3rd Party Applications
  • 8.1. Installing Textpattern
  • 8.2. Resetting your Textpattern password
  • 8.3. Setting index.html as the default in Textpattern
  • 8.4. Installing WordPress
  • 8.5. Installing Instiki
  • 8.6. Setting up a proxy for your Rails Application to a domain or subdomain
  • 8.7. Installing Peastat
  • 8.8. MediaWiki and Clean URLs
  • 8.9. Serving MediaWiki from a Subdomain
  • 8.10. PhotoStack and SFTP
• 9. Creating and Working with Databases
  • 9.1. Creating a MySQL database
  • 9.2. Adding MySQL Users
  • 9.3. Deleting a MySQL database
  • 9.4. With what hostname do I connect to MySQL?
  • 9.5. Connecting remotely to a MySQL database
  • 9.6. Importing/Exporting MySQL data
  • 9.7. Repairing a MySQL table
  • 9.8. Backing up a MySQL database
  • 9.9. Creating a PostgreSQL database
• 10. Installing a Rails Application at TextDrive
  • 10.1. Introduction
  • 10.2. Setting up and Configuring Lighttpd
  • 10.3. Setting up and Configuring your Rails Application
  • 10.4. Starting, Stopping, and Restarting Lighttpd
  • 10.5. Starting and Restarting your Rails Application
  • 10.6. Setting up a Proxy to your Rails Application
  • 10.7. Enabling PHP under Lighttpd
• 11. Subversion
  • 11.1. Getting Started with Subversion
  • 11.2. Subversion anonymous access
  • 11.3. Managing Subversion users
  • 11.4. Setting up email notification of Subversion commits
  • 11.5. Connecting to Subversion via https
  • 11.6. Accessing subversion via svn+ssh and permissions
• 12. Troubleshooting Common Problems
  • 12.1. Problems creating a new user
  • 12.2. Subversion 301 errors
  • 12.3. "554: Relay Access Denied" error when sending email
  • 12.4. Subversion "400 Bad Request" errors
  • 12.5. I just uploaded an index.html file, but when I go to my domain it's blank
  • 12.6. I uploaded my site, but all I see is a blank page in my browser
  • 12.7. My subdomain shows or redirects to my main domain
  • 12.8. Mail from your Gmail account is lost
  • 12.9. Password protecting a directory with Digest Authentication doesn't work
  • 12.10. I'm getting 500 (Internal Server) errors when trying to run my script
  • 12.11. Movable Type "Byte order is not compatible" error
  • 12.12. Instiki crashed and times out when restarted
  • 12.13. WebDAV login problems
  • 12.14. Cannot publish iCal data and/or access over WebDAV
  • 12.15. Lighttpd FastCGI is slow
  • 12.16. 502 "Bad Gateway" and 503 "Service Unavailable" errors for sites running Lighttpd
  • 12.17. Problems running cron jobs
  • 12.18. Disabling mod_security
  • 12.19. Delivery failure reports for mail you did not send