what to do before WHM account is created?

[anonalex]

Hi,

I just signed up for a plan and got my account login email. But it said that my WHM account has not been created yet. Is there anything I can do until the WHM account is up? I changed my passwords in the Customer Control Panel but that's about it. Can't figure out if there's a way to get in to my webspace and get some stuff online before the WHM account is set up.

Thanks,
Alex

[Jonathan]

Pretty much can't do anything til WHM is up and running.
They do that by hand, to prevent obvious fruad, etc.

Sometimes its just a few minutes, or up to a few hours.

[anonalex]

confustion about disXXXX account

Thanks for the reply. My WHM is now set up. I created a new package and account without any problems. But I'm a little confused about the "default" disXXXX account. It does not show up in WHM but does show up in cPanel if I log in as disXXXX. Tells me I have 5 megs of disk space available on it. Is there any way to change that? Or is this just a 'dummy' account that needs to exist so that I can create others?

Thanks,
Alex

[-Oz-]

FAQ: http://forums.dathorn.com/showthread.php?t=61

[anonalex]

FAQ

Thanks Oz. That's the FAQ I used to set up the new account. But I'm still a little confused about the default disXXXX account. Just wondering where I can change settings for this default account or even if it's a real account or just exists as some sort of starting point.

[-Oz-]

Oh, i never even used my default account.

I just setup an account and then set my nameservers and stuff to that domain. So i don't know.

[AndrewT]

You should not be using the default account (dis####) for anything other than logging into WHM. You need to create accounts for all of your domains including your own within WHM.

[anonalex]

cleared up

Thanks for clearing that up for me, Andrew.

[Dan]

Or, if you like, your dis-xxxx account is your skeleton directory. Any pages/files uploaded into the public_html folder there will be the default files included in new domains that you create!