What is it that Themis wrote that is incompatible with setting it up on
your user?
DirectAdmin by default serves websites from:
Code:
/home/USERNAME/domains/EXAMPLE.COM/public_html
Simply go ahead and set up your username and your domain name (even if you don't own it yet), and then on your local system (the one you're testing from) add the entry you need to your hosts file so your browser will go to your IP# when you type in your domain name.
If you're trying to find the yofo user under ftp you can't, simply because the security model of both Linux and FreeBSD is that only root can navigate to other users' directories, and root cannot use ftp. You need to log in as the user. That puts you into the user's root directory and then you navigate to
domains/EXAMPLE.COM/public_html, of course replacing EXAMPLE.COM with your own domain name.
Again, the domain name doesn't need to exist anywhere except on your server as long as you set up your hosts file properly. I just spent ten minutes googling to find a page to show you how to do this; I couldn't find one
. So unless you tell us what your local system is, I can't tell you how, but if you do it, and then set up on your server as if you've already bought your domain, all just works.
Don't worry if you don't know your domain name yet; you can change it later.
Jeff