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GENERAL FEATURES
1. Web Space
Directory
Structure
Every hosting account gets it's own password protected username
under Linux. By logging in with this username, you will gain
access to your web storage space. Every user "owns"
a structure of subdirectories in the Linux
file system. The "root" or base of this structure
is the "home" directory, found at /home/username.
Inside of the home directory, you will find the "public_html"
subdirectory. Files within the public_html directory are publicly
available over the Internet. A more common name for the directory
used to store public files is "www", so we've created
a directory under this name as well. The www subdirectory is
a symbolic link to the public_html folder, so accessing the
www folder will automatically re-direct the user to the public_html
directory.
For example, when a browser asks for URL http://yourname.com/page.html
, Apache looks for the file /home/username/public_html/page.html
and sends it back.
The "Home" Page
The file name of your home page within any directory needs to
be index.html or index.htm. Apache will automatically send the
file /home/username/public_html/index.html when a browser requests
http://yourdomain.com
The "CGI-BIN"
"CGI" stands for "Common Gateway Interface",
another name for programs running on the web server that can
be invoked from a public page at the browser. The "bin"
part alludes to the binary executables that result from compiled
or assembled programs. It is a bit misleading because CGI's
can also be Unix shell scripts or interpreted languages like
Perl. Every hosting account comes with it's own personal CGI-BIN.
2. FTP Space
Secure FTP Access
Every hosting account comes with at least one password protected
FTP login. By default, this will be setup with your main username
/ password. The main FTP login will have access to all files
and subdirectories within your /home/username directory. Additional
FTP logins are available, which can be restricted to a special
subdirectory under public_html.
Anonymous FTP Access
All accounts come preset with an anonymous ftp area, where files
can be uploaded and downloaded by anyone in the world without
a password. This area is separated from the rest of your files
for obvious reasons. The path to the anonymous FTP area is /home/username/public_ftp.
If you want both upload and download anonymous FTP, then you
may want a read-only subdirectory for distributing files and
a separate write-only subdirectory for receiving files. This
is to prevent files that you are distributing from being destroyed
accidentally, and to prevent files uploaded to you from being
distributed to others before you examine them.
FTP Account Administration
All settings, for both secure and anonymous FTP can be managed
via your online Control Panel. You also have full control over
all FTP sessions in progress, the ability to add and remove
additional FTP logins, and more...
3. Telnet / SSH
Telnet / SSH Account
On our shared web hosting accounts isTelnet for security reasons
disabled.
SSH is basically a secure form of Telnet. To quote
the README file: SSH (Secure Shell) is a program to log into
another computer over a network, to execute commands in a remote
machine, and to move files from one machine to another. It provides
strong authentication and secure communications over unsecured
channels. It is intended as a replacement for rlogin, rsh, and
rcp.
You can download and install SSH software from
http://www.vandyke.com/
On our shared web hosting accounts is SSH disabled.
4. Real Audio / Video
The "Real Server"
The Real Server software is a real time audio and/or video transmission
system. A digital audio or video stream is transmitted from
the server over the Internet to the destination and played immediately,
rather than being stored to disk first and then played. With
this extra added feature, visitors to your website need not
wait for several minutes, or longer, to listen to an audio file,
or view a video file, while the large file is downloading.
Real Server Usage
Each Real audio or video file you wish to transmit requires
two files: a metafile with extension .ram, and the digital audio
or video clip itself, with extension .ra. The .ram file holds
one or more lines of ASCII text, each of which references the
.ra file to be played when the .ram file is accessed by the
browser.
Entries in .ram files have the form:
http://yourdomain.com/realaudio/filename.ra or http://yourdomain.com/realvideo/filename.ra
Place your .ram and .ra files in the realaudio,
or realvideo, subdirectory under your public_html directory.
.ram files must be uploaded in ASCII mode while .ra files must
be uploaded in BINARY mode.
You may then access these files at
http://www.yourdomain.com/realaudio/filename.ram or http://www.yourdomain.com/realvideo/filename.ram
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