| Web Site
Help
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| IMPORTANT
NOTE: CalWeb Technical Support cannot assist you with the design
or debugging of your web site. We can only assist you with uploading
your web site to our servers. Professional design services for
business web sites are available. |
| What
is the URL of my personal web page? |
The URL of your personal
web page is http://www.calweb.com/~userid,
where userid is your login name. (i.e. joeuser). |
| How
do I upload to my web site? |
| You will need to use an ftp
program like WS_FTP to transfer files from your computer to our web
servers. Web pages should be transferred in ASCII format, while
graphics should be transferred in binary format. (Most current ftp
programs handle this correctly.) To upload to CalWeb, you will need
to log into the server ftp.calweb.com with your user name and
password. Once logged in, you will need to change to your web
directory on CalWeb (this is usually referred to as the remote
computer):
Personal Web Page and
Personal Webhosting: /www/home/users/[first
character of your login name]/[your entire login name]
Example: For the user
"joeuser", the directory will be as follows: /www/home/users/j/joeuser
Business Webhosting: /www/home/business/[first
character of domain name]/[domainname] |
| Do
you support CGI or Perl scripts? |
| Yes, we do. All cgi-scripts
and Perl scripts must have the extension of .cgi,
and permissions set to 755 (owner has read/write/execute
permissions, everyone has just read and execute permissions. See
chmod.) Scripts must be uploaded in ASCII mode. |
| Do
you support FrontPage? |
| Yes, we support FrontPage
extensions. You will need to first install the extensions by going
to http://frontpage.calweb.com
. Once installed, you can design your web site on your computer and
then publish to your web site, or do live editing of your web site
from Frontpage.
Publish method:
Once the web is open on your computer, click on File and select
Publish Web. You will be prompted for your web location. Enter the
URL of your web site (either http://www.calweb.com/~userid
or http://www.domainname.com).
You will then be prompted for your CalWeb user name and password.
The web site will then be published to CalWeb's servers.
Live editing: Click
on File and select Open Web. You will be prompted for your web
location. Enter the URL of your web site (either http://www.calweb.com/~userid
or http://www.domainname.com
). You will then be prompted for your CalWeb user name and password.
You can then edit your web site on-line. |
| Can
you give me tips on designing web pages? |
While we cannot
specifically assist you in the design of your web site, here are
some helpful tips on publishing your web site:
- Our web servers are
Unix-based Apache web servers. Unlike Windows, all file names
are case sensitive, thus picture.jpg is different than
picture.JPG. We recommend that you use all lowercase for the
filenames.
- For compatibility and
for quick transfers, pictures should be in the .gif, .jpg, or .png
format. Avoid using .bmp and .tif files.
- Keep the page simple.
Lengthy web pages with many images take longer to load than
short web pages with few graphics.
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| What
is the name of the home page? |
| The file name of your home
page should be named index.html
(preferred) or index.htm
. |
I
just uploaded my web site, but nothing comes up. What's wrong?
I just uploaded my business web site, but it still says
"Coming Soon". What's wrong? |
One of the possible
situations occurred:
- You may have uploaded
your files in your home directory (ie /home/j/joeuser
or /s2/joeuser)
instead of your web directory (see above).
- You probably uploaded
your business web site with the home page titled index.htm
. Our server checks for index.html
first, then index.htm.
You will need to remove the index.html
web page from your web directory.
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| How
can I put a counter on my web page? |
| The Text Counter is fairly
simple to place on your Web Page(s) and uses SSI - Server Side
Includes. The name of the counter is "counter".
To actually make use of
this counter, you will need to put in the following line: You
are visitor <!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/counter"--> to
this page.
After placing the correct
script line in your HTML page the counter will look like the
following: You are visitor 8118
to this page. Please note that it is impossible for CalWeb to modify
the counter counts. |
| Where
can I download statistics on my business web site? |
Web site statistics can be
accessed by going to the following:
- http://www.(yourdomainname).com/webstats.html
- Webstats home page
- http://www.(yourdomainname).com/log/
- http-analyze web stats
- http://www.(yourdomainname).com/log/urchin/
- Urchin web stats
Note: Web site
statistics are part of the business web hosting package, and are NOT
available for personal web hosting sites or personal web sites. |
| For
more information... |
| Try the following
resources:
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Services. |
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