These
instructions assume the following:
-
You
are the Site Administrator
-
You
have set your initial remote directory
in your FTP client to /var/www as specified in
your "welcome" email.
After
we send you the information that contains your IP address,
username, and password, you are ready to start uploading
files into your account. There are a number of FTP programs
on the market that can be used to upload your files,
but we suggest using the free WS_FTP (for PC), our File
Manager in the Ensim Webppliance control panel,
or Fetch for Macintosh. When using any type of FTP program,
there are four essential things to keep in mind when
connecting to your account:
-
Your
host name would be your IP address or domain name
as specified in the Welcome letter that we sent
you. (no
http:// in front, just the IP or domain name as
your hostname). If your
domain name has not yet propagated, you will need
to use the IP address of your new site to connect.
-
Your
username is the username we provided in the Welcome
letter that we sent you.
-
Your
password is the password we provided in the Welcome
letter that we sent you.
-
You
should never delete or edit any of the files
or folders that are throughout your home directory
unless you know exactly what you're doing. Even
then, think twice.
WS_FTP
This
is what your initial login screen should looks like:
Initial Directory:
Once
you logon you will be in your domain's /var/www directory.
There may be several files and directories already sitting
in this directory. Each directory has its own purpose,
but the only two you really need to worry about while
starting out are
-
/var/www/html
- This is your main html directory, and is where
you will put all the html files for your domain.
-
/var/www/cgi-bin
-
This is where you will put your executable CGI (*.cgi,
*.pl) files.
In
your /var/www/html directory will be your default
index.html file. The default index.html is the
"under construction" homepage that you see
when you access your site for the first time. index.html
is sometimes called default.htm or index.htm depending
on what program you're using. If the program you're
using calls your homepage by a name other than index.html,
be sure to delete the default index.html so that you
don't have duplicate homepages.
Note
to Microsoft FrontPage Users
Customers with FrontPage extensions installed on their
site should use FrontPage publishing feature to transfer
files. Using regular FTP can corrupt the extensions
unless you know what you're doing. If FP extensions
do become corrupt, we can always delete and reinstall
them without deleting your site.
File
and Directory Permissions
There
are three levels of file permissions: read, write and
execute. In addition, there are three groups to
which you can assign permissions: file owner, user group
and everyone. The command chmod followed
by three numbers is used to change permissions.
The first number is the permission for the owner, the
second for the group and the third for everyone.
Here are how the levels of permission translate:
| 0
= --- |
No
permission |
| 1
= --X |
Execute
only |
| 2
= -W- |
Write
only |
| 3
= -WX |
Write
and execute |
| 4
= R-- |
Read
only |
| 5
= R-X |
Read
and execute |
| 6
= RW- |
Read
and write |
| 7
= RWX |
Read,
write and execute |
Here are the most common file permissions used on
an Ensim server:
| chmod
644 [filename] |
Standard
permissions for HTML file |
| chmod
755 [directory name] |
Standard
permissions for directories |
| chmod
755 [filename] |
Standard
permissions for scripts & programs. CGI
scripts run under Ensim must have their
permissions set to 755 |
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