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What are all the files and directories in my home directory? public_html................This is your web directory. Place all your web files in there. www................This is the same directory. They are aliased/linked to each other. public_ftp................This is your anonymous ftp directory. Users can only download from this directory the files that you place there. public_ftp/incoming................This is the anonymous user upload area. public_html/webstore................This is the WebStore Shopping Cart directory. public_html/webstore4................This is the WebStore 4.0 Shopping Cart directory. _private................ This is part of MS Frontpage Extensions. DO NOT TOUCH. _vti_*................ These are parts of MS Frontpage Extensions. DO NOT TOUCH. public_html/cgi-bin................This is your cgi-bin directory. Put all of your own scripts here. This is not the location of the preinstalled scripts. cpanel..........This is your Control Panel. DO NOT TOUCH. You may utilize the control panel thru: http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel/login .xfm..........This is your part of your Control Panel. DO NOT TOUCH. You may utilize the control panel thru: http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel/login .lists..........This is your Mailing List information. DO NOT TOUCH. You may utilize the control panel thru: http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel/login .mail..........This is your Mail information. DO NOT TOUCH. You may utilize the control panel thru: http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel/login How do I run my own CGI programs? Put your CGI programs in the cgi-bin directory.
A special note - this does not apply to frontpage webs, follow normal cgi instructions The location of preinstalled scripts is /cgi-sys.
How do I use cgiemail, and Formmail ? CGIemail:This is a program that will email you the forms filled out from the web.
<FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="http://yourdomain.com/cgi-sys/FormMail.cgi"> Be sure to replace yourdomain, with your real domain name. How do I use
counters, clocks, and calendars ? How do I use the anonymous ftp site? This is preset up with every account. Your anonymous FTP account is the public_ftp directory in your root directory. You can create user specified logins in your public_html directory thru the browser control panel interface. How do I create email aliases and forwarders? Please use your control panel to create an alias/forward. http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel/login How do I use the auto-responders? Please use your control panel to create an auto-responder. http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel/login How do I see who is using my auto-responders? The original email that that your visitor sent to receive your auto-responder message will wind up in your default mailbox, unless you set up a pop or forwarder of the same name as the auto-responder. You can then see who requested an auto-responder, by the email that you have received. How do I create a mailing list? Please use your control panel to create mailing lists. http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel/login There may be extra charges if your mailing list is very large - more than 1000 subscribers). How do I use Real Audio(tm) and Video(tm)? Real Audio(tm) and Video(tm) is available for a small extra charge Information was supplied in section 1.2.10 How do I change my login password? Please use your control panel to change your passwords. http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel/login Telnet to your domain. After you've logged on, type "passwd" to change your password. You can exit the telnet session by typing "exit". How do I check the web usage stats for my domain? Please use your control panel to check your stats. http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel/login I need to configure my mail reading program so I can access my emails. What are the proper settings? Assume your domain is fred.com Smtp = mail.fred.com What is the correct path to perl(and other programs)? perl5: /usr/bin/perl perl5.003: /usr/bin/perl5.003 perl5.004: /usr/bin/perl5.004 sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail date: /bin/date java: /usr/bin/java python: /usr/bin/python Domain paths
What are the basic Frontpage settings? assume your domain is fred.com location to publish to: fred.com (note if the domain is not active use
the ip# we assigned) How do I use the SSL server for my order form? Normally, any text(such as your credit card number) sent from your
browser to the web server is sent as plain text. This means that a hacker
could potentially intercept(however unlikely) the information sent from
your browser and read it.
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