| Upon logging into your account, you'll notice several directories which are created automatically. If you are using a plesk server, the following directories are available:
bin/ and pd/
These directories are part of the environment for the domain. They are controlled by the server and cannot be written to. These are not important for day-to-day use by your account.
anon_ftp/
This directory is where your anonymous FTP account is based (it is always there, regardless of whether your accounts supports it or not, and whether or not it's enabled). Under this directory, pub/ can be used to put files into for downloading, while any uploaded files will go into incoming/.
conf/
This directory holds the basic configuration for your domain, needed by the web server. It can only be changed by Plesk itself, or our staff. If you require a change in this directory (for example, to permently change the open_basedir setting), you must Submit a Ticket to the Support Team.
cgi-bin/
This is the master cgi-bin for your website, and can be accessed from http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/. Typically, any CGI or PEARL scripts will go here. Any files run in a cgi-bin/ will be subject to the suEXEC security mechanism on the server. Each script must pass a number of security checks each time it's run.
error_docs/
This directory holds the default error documents for your site (the pages that are displayed on a 404 or Page Not Found error for example). There are a number of restrictions in this directory - you can only change the contents of the files. You cannot add new ones or delete the ones that are already there. These files can be edited to create custom error docs.
statistics/
This directory contains all error and access logs for your domain, as well as compiled statistics (webalizer stats), if enabled. You cannot access this directory directly - only though the Plesk Control Panel by using the Log Manager icon under each domain.
httpdocs/ and httpsdocs/
These directories are where your main website files will be held. httpdocs/ is for the standard website (http://www.yourdomain.com/) and httpsdocs/ is for the secure site (https://www.yourdomain.com/). Note that SSL is not enabled by default, and will not work properly when enabled unless a genuine certificate is installed. For most websites, you will only need to use the httpdocs/ directory.
private/
This directory is used to store any files you want, and they can only be accessed by the master FTP account for the domain (i.e. if you create separate FTP accounts for each sub-domain, user, etc. they can't access the directory).
subdomains/
If you create any sub-domains, their files will be held under this directory, not under httpdocs/. Each sub-domain created has it's own directory (e.g. subdomains/test/ for http://test.mydomain.com/), under which are the directories httpdocs/, conf/ and cgi-bin/. All three have the same purpose as those in the home directory, where subdomains/test/httpdocs/ contains all the files for http://test.mydomain.com/ and subdomains/test/cgi-bin/ is used for for http://test.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/.
web_users/
If you want to create 'personal' spaces for friends, family, employees, etc., but don't want to let them directly access the website, or give them a sub-domain, you can set them up with their own Web User account. Each Web User account will be stored under the web_users/ directory. For example, if you create the user 'username', their files will be held under web_users/username/, and they can access their space using http://www.yourdomain.com/~username/. (Web User accounts can only be accessed by using the ~ mark, as it tells the server to treat them as a Web User.)
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