General Account Information

The default.htm Page

FTP Access

Telnet Access

WUSAGE and Access Logs

Checking Server Space Usage

Changing your Account's Passwords

 

Accessing Your Email

The filename of your home page should be default.htm. The webserver will automatically send the file at the following path:

/home/yourdomain.com/www/default.htm when a browser specifies http://www.yourdomain.com

When your account is set up, there will be an default.htm page already installed. This tells anyone accessing your domain that your site is under construction and will be available soon. You will replace this file in the www directory with one of your own creation. You can put a default.htm file in any subdirectory that you wish, and it will be the default page served when you don't want your visitors to have to type a full page URL reference, for example:

http://www.yourdomain.com/whatever instead of http://www.yourdomain.com/whatever/page.htm or http://www.yourdomain.com/whatever.htm

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Now that you know where the files have to be located in order to be visible from the Internet, just how do you put the files there? There are several ways, depending on your computer system. For the Macintosh, a program called "Fetch" is used. Microsoft Windows systems use such programs as "CuteFTP" or "WS_FTP."

Here is the FTP account information to configure your FTP program:

Host Address:	yourdomainname.com  or IP address
User ID:	your username
Password:	your password

IMPORTANT: If you are using FrontPage, you should NEVER use regular FTP to upload your files. This will damage the server's FrontPage extensions. Stick with one or the other all the time. Please refer to the instructions in the FrontPage section for uploading files.

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A telnet account is just another name for Unix/Linux userID. When you sign up with us, you get a userID and password. Each telnet account for your domain has its own separate home directory, but shares the same www and FTP directories.

You need a telnet program to access your telnet account. Simply enter your domain.com as the host, and connect to the server. When you are connected, you will be prompted for your userID and password.

Some of the programs available at the shell prompt are:

mail:	a primitive email program
pine:	a more powerful email program
ftp:	to FTP onto other sites
telnet:	to telnet to other sites

In general, it's a pretty complete POSIX environment. You access these programs by typing in their names and then following commands relevant to each program. If you need help with any of the programs at the shell prompt, type man and the name of the program to get instructions for that program online. If your problem is not knowing the name of the program, try apropos subject (i.e. apropos mail). It is important to remember that Unix is case sensitive, and that "Default.htm" is not the same as "default.htm."

Note: If you experience problems with your telnet program when accessing the above programs, you will need to make an entry in your login directories .bash_profile file. Just add the following to the last line export TERM=vt100. This will allow you to access all shell programs properly.

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To count accesses and show statistics about your website, there is a directory called WUSAGE in your www directory. To access it, just log on the Internet with your internet browser and go to:

http://www.yourdomain.com/wusage

You will see a webpage with statistics for your domain. If you are a brand new domain, you won't see any statistics there yet. If you go to the link from that page leading to Weekly Reports, you will see a much more detailed report, including pie charts, graphs, etc. These reports are automatically generated for you and are stored in one place so you can compare weekly statistics easily.

If you want to see your raw access logs, then FTP into your Home directory, there you will see a file named access-log.  Download this file and open it in a text editor such as WordPad, to see exactly what files were accessed, what domain the visitor came from, the dates and times of each visit, etc.

If you would like to see domain names in your stats and other programs rather than just IP numbers, put an empty text file in your wusage directory called dns (with no "txt" extension). This will act as a switch and the reverse authentication will be activated for the domain.

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There are several different options available for checking your 
space usage. Read through these quickly to select the one best 
suited to your needs.

Total Space Usage
To find out how much total space is in use by your account you will need to log into your account with Telnet. (Use the Telnet link to learn how)  At the UNIX prompt type the following command:
     du * www/* anonftp/* -c

This will bring up a space report for each of your directories, with a total number of kilobytes used at the end. If you want to check the space reports of each of your main directories individually, refer to the following directions.

File Space Usage
To see space reports for each file in your account, type the following command at the UNIX prompt:
      du * www/* anonftp/* -a

www Directory Space Usage
To see space reports for the files and subdirectories contained within your www directory, type the following command at the UNIX prompt:
     du -s /www/htdocs/yourdomain

Anonymous FTP Space Usage
If you have an anonymous FTP area, (go to Anonymous FTP to learn how) you can check the space it is using by typing the following command at the UNIX prompt:
du -s ~ftp/yourdomain.com

Home Directory Space Usage
To check how much space is being used by files in your home directory, type the following command at the UNIX prompt:
     du -s $HOME

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To change your account password for FTP, Telnet, Mail, FrontPage
and the PowerScripts Plusmail WebControl Panel, use the following instructions for any or all aspects of your website:

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We recommend using MS Outlook or Eudora as your email program. These are mail program that run under MS Windows and Eudora for the Macintosh OS. Eudora connects to the mail server over the Winsock or Macintosh TCP/IP. Mail can be composed and read offline, but make sure that Winsock or TCP/IP is running before attempting to send or receive email. Although your account exists on our server, you won't be able to receive email at yourdomain.com until InterNIC has activated or redirected your domain name to our name servers.

Use the following information to configure any email client program you wish to use. For our example, we will say that your domain name is "fred.com"

SMTP:	fred.com (this is your outgoing                 mail setting)
POP3:	fred.com (this is your incoming                 mail setting)
Username:	fred (this is your assigned         username)
Password:	password (this is your assigned                 password)

If you would like additional POP email accounts, ask us and we'll set it up for you. Remember, there might be an additional one-time charge for each POP account depending on your account. To check numerous POP accounts, read the manual or help files that come with MS Outlook, Eudora or your favorite email program's software, for configuration.

 

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