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FAQ's about your WWW sites
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- A. Here is the URL's for your WWW site.
- To access your WWW site from a web browser, go to URL "http://www.hypersurf.com/~username"
- (where 'username' = your username on AIC)
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- A. Each Personal PPP account is allocated 25 MB of disk space for combined personal WWW/FTP directories.
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- A. In order to check your disk space usage, you will have to log onto the user machine via telnet.
- See the help page on Shell Access if you are unclear how to do this.
- From the shell prompt.....
- To check the disk space utilization in your www directory, use the UNIX disk usage (du) command.
- From the shell prompt in your home directory on shell.accesscom.com, type du -kLc www.
- The output should look something like this...
shell [11] du -kLc www
2 www/docs
2 www/private/passw
14 www/private
6 www/gifs
25 www
25 total
shell [11]
- To check the disk space utilization in your ftp directory, type du -kLc ftp.
- The output should look something like this...
shell [11] du -kLc ftp
295 ftp
295 total
shell [11]
- The above examples show a total usage of 25KB in the www directory and 295KB in the ftp directory. The directory structure shown for each of these directories will obviously differ for your directories.
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- A. You can access your personal FTP/WWW directories through Telnet, FTP or WWW
- Telnet - Use a telnet client to log onto 'shell.accesscom.com', using your username and password.
- The directory structure should look something like this.
shell [12] ls -l
total 53
-rwxr--r--- 1 username username 105 Feb 25 1996 .bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 username username 15 Feb 25 1996 .profile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 username username 27 Aug 19 23:53 ftp -> /home/ftp/pub/users/u/username/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 username username 35 Feb 25 1996 www -> /home/users/www/u/username/public_html/
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- FTP - Use an FTP client to log onto 'shell.accesscom.com', using your username and password.
- The directory structure should look something like this - the same as it does for a telnet session.
shell [12] ls -l
total 53
-rwxr--r--- 1 username username 105 Feb 25 1996 .bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 username username 15 Feb 25 1996 .profile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 username username 27 Aug 19 23:53 ftp -> /home/ftp/pub/users/u/username/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 username username 35 Feb 25 1996 www -> /home/users/www/u/username/public_html/
shell [13]
- WWW
- To access your WWW site from a web browser, go to URL "http://www.hypersurf.com/~username/"
- (where 'username' = your username on AIC)
- To access your FTP site from a web browser to go to URL "ftp://shell.hypersurf.com/pub/users/u/username/
- (where 'u' = the first letter of your username and 'username' = your username on AIC)
- NOTE: Web browser access to your FTP site will permit viewing but not editing of your FTP directory.
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- A. You can register a virtual domain name with Access Internet Communications.
- For more detail goto our page about virtual domain name.
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- A. You can upload files (HTML, GIF, etc) to your personal WWW directories through any FTP client.
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- Use an FTP application and set the Host to 'shell.accesscom.com'.
- Provide your username and password.
- Type www (also know as public_html) as the Directory.
- In this directory you should find an html file
named index.html, this is your default home page.
If you want to make a new home page you will need to
replace this html file with a new html file named exactly index.html or
index.htm. After uploading your new home page go ahead a launch your web
browser and go to your URL which would be http://www.accesscom.com/~username/.
If the page doesn't come up the first time try pressing the Reload button.
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- A. You can use either of the following name:
- index.html index.htm index.cgi index.shtml INDEX.HTML INDEX.HTM default.html
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- A. You can upload files (HTML, GIF, etc) to your personal WWW directories using Netscape Navigator Gold.
- Select Editor perferences from the Options menu.
- Select the third tab which should be publish.
- Type ftp://shell.accesscom.com/home/users/u/username/www/ in the space labeled "Publish to (FTP or HTTP)"
- (where 'u' = the first letter of your username and 'username' = your username on AIC)
- Type http://www.accesscom.com/~username in the space labeled "Browse to (HTTP)"
- (where 'username' = your username on AIC)
- Provide your username and password in the next two spaces.
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- A. You can upload files (HTML, GIF, etc) to your personal WWW directories using Netscape Communicator.
- Select Perferences from the Edit menu.
- Scroll down until you get to Composer.
- Select the Publish which is under Composer.
- Type ftp://shell.accesscom.com/home/users/u/username/www/ in the space labeled "Publish to (FTP or HTTP)"
- (where 'u' = the first letter of your username and 'username' = your username on AIC)
- Type http://www.accesscom.com/~username in the space labeled "Browse to (HTTP)"
- (where 'username' = your username on AIC)
- Provide your username and password when you are about to publish your files.
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- A. You will need to follow the following prcedure:
- published to 'http://www.domain_name.com/' (your web site URL)
- connected to our shell server 'shell.accesscom.com'
- path to use '/home/users/u/username/public_html/'
(where 'u' =
the first letter of your username and 'username' = your username on AIC)
- supplied your username
- supplied your password
- It may be necessary to completely 'clean' the ftp site of old files previously uploaded so everything will finally worked. Any left over FP98 'stuff' seems to cause problems.
Note: We no longer support
Micrsoft FrontPage. You will not be able to take advantage of its server
scripts.
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- A. This should help you set up protection on a directory via the Basic HTTP Authentication method. This method also uses the standard plaintext password file.
- So let's suppose you want to restrict files in a directory called
private to username pumpkin and password pie. Here's what to do:
- To create a file called
.htaccess in directory private, issue the following commands at the UNIX command prompt.
shell [13] vi .htaccess
AuthUserFile /home/users/u/username/public_html/private/.htpasswd
AuthName "ByPassword"
AuthType Basic
require valid-user
- AuthUserFile needs to be the full path to the .htpasswd file.
- (where 'u' = the first letter of your username and 'username' = your username on AIC)
- AuthUserFile must be the full Unix pathname of the password file.
- Create the password file
.htpasswd
- The easiest way to do this is to use the
htpasswd program. Do this:
shell [13] htpasswd .htpasswd pumpkin
- Type the password --
pie.
- Check the resulting file to get a warm feeling of self-satisfaction; it should look like this:
shell [13] vi .htpasswd
pumpkin:y1ia3tjWkhCK2
- That's all. Now try to access a file in directory
private -- your browser should demand a username and password, and not give you access to the file if you don't enter pumpkin and pie. If you are using a browser that doesn't handle authentication, you will not be able to access the document at all.
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- A. To change the permissions of files/directoies, issue the command "chmod" at the UNIX command prompt followed by the three digit number and filename.
- Here is a list of what numbers are assigned when setting permissions and the UNIX command.
| Permission type: |
Owner |
Group |
Everyone |
| Readable |
4 |
4 |
4 |
| Writeable |
2 |
2 |
2 |
| Executable |
1 |
1 |
1 |
| Total |
7 |
7 |
7 |
- shell [13] chmod 755 filename
- HTML/CGI files should be set to 755; which is 7 - RWE for Owner, 5 - RWE for Group, 5 - RE Everyone
- If you create a cgi-bin directory to hold all your cgis, that directory will also need to be set to 755.
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- A. User with a web site
can have request to have access log files enabled.
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