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NOTE: This page describes the features of posting
to cstel.net for personal Web pages.
Once you have designed and tested your Web pages on your local system,
the next step in making those pages accessible to the Web world at large
is to post them on a Web server. This process will differ from server to
server, due to the connection mechanism, the server platform, and several
other factors. This pages describes the specific steps required for an
cstel.net user to set up a Web directory and post their Web files there.
The key point to emphasize is that these files must be copied to a specific
directory, which must be created prior to copying the files. Furthermore,
the directory cannot simply be created by the user, but must
be set up using an automated process that runs on the host system used
by cstel.net, which is hosted by InfoAve.Net. This process not only
creates
the appropriate directory, but also assigns its ownership and access
permissions so that the Web server can serve your Web files to
other users.
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NOTE: If you do not create your Web directory using
the defined procedure, your Web files will not be accessible to anyone,
including yourself.
Creating the WWW directory
Your Web files must be stored in a special subdirectory of your account
on the host system. This subdirectory must be named /WWW. Once it
has been created, you may then create subdirectories of /WWW if
you wish. These subdirectories can be created in any manner you wish, including
using FTP.
To create the /WWW directory, you will need to log directly into the
host system.
The simplest way to accomlish this,
using the software distributed by cstel.net, is to select the Telnet
application, which has already been configured for our host system (PACS).
If you are using another Telnet application, the server you need to connect
to is cstel.net
After connecting to the PACS host, either through a separate terminal
emulator or via a Telnet session, you will see the Info Avenue Enhanced
Terminal Services Main Menu, illustrated here.
Terminal Services main menu
This menu is the primary interface for users connecting directly to
our host system (including those users without a TCP/IP account).
Note: If this is the first time you have logged
onto the Info Avenue host system via Telnet, you will first see our Terms
and Conditions document. You may read through this document using
your arrow keys, or exit it by pressing X. At that point, you will
then enter the Terminal Services menu shown above. After your first Telnet
session, you will no longer be presented with the Terms and Conditions
page, but will go directly to the Terminal Services menu.
From this Main Menu, select the TOOLS option. (Options are selected
either by moving the arrow in the left column up and down using the arrow
keys on your keyboard, or simply by typing in the option word -- such as
TOOLS.
In either case, press the Enter key to invoke the option.) From
the subsequent screen (see below), select the WWWDIR option. You
will be prompted for a Personal name, which will be used as a header on
the template document that is created in your new WWW directory (see below).
The creation process will display a series of brief system messages regarding
the creation of the new directory, and then return you to the menu. At
this point, you may exit from the Info Avenue Enhanced Terminal Services
Menu and terminate your Telnet session.
Terminal Services TOOLS menu
Testing the creation of your WWW directory
When the above procedure creates your WWW directory, it also places a single
HTML file into that directory. This file can be used as a template for
your home page, or simply to test that the directory got created successfully.
To test your directory using this template file, start your browser
and point it to http://web.infoave.net/~username, where username
should be replaced with your actual login account name. (Don't forget the
tilde character [~] before the username.) Your template file should appear;
this completes the testing of your Web directory creation.
Moving files to the Web server
Now it is time to copy your Web files -- all of the HTML files, as well
as any graphics or other related files -- to the
newly-created directory. The easiest way to do this is with FTP. The
steps are as follows (this example uses the
FTP application distributed with the Internet Tool Kit software kit,
and illustrated below.
Using FTP, connect to ftp.cstel.net but not
via an Anonymous login. Instead, disable the Anonymous login button, and
enter the Username and Password you are currently using for your own account.
When FTP makes the connection to Info Avenue, you will be placed in your
top-level directory. There will already be one or more subdirectories shown
on the Remote host side, such as WORKSPACE. One of these directories will
be WWW. Change to that subdirectory (most simply by double-clicking on
the WWW directory name).
You will see that a file called index.html has already been
created for you, as a boilerplate HTML file. This is the template file
used in the above testing of your new WWW directory. If you have a file
by the same name, copying it to your new WWW directory will overwrite the
template file. You may wish to rename one or the other before doing the
file transfer.
Copy all relevant files from your system to your new WWW subdirectory.
(This would include all of your HTML files, as well as any graphics or
other files that are referenced within those HTML files.) Be sure to
copy all HTML files in ASCII mode! You can now access these files across
the Net using any WWW browser.
IMPORTANT!!
When copying your files to the Info Avenue Web
server, it is critical that text and binary files be treated separately.
All of your HTML files are text files that must be copied in ASCII (or
stream) mode; any binary files (which includes all graphics, executables,
compressed files, etc.) must be copied in fixed Binary mode. (This
means that you should not simply select all of your files and transfer
them at once; at the very least, separate the text and binary files and
transfer each group in its proper format.)
Every FTP program has a slightly different user
interface with regard to specifying how a file is to be copied. If files
are not copied in the correct format, they may not be accessible on the
Web. (E.g., HTML pages may not come up; graphics may not display.)
Accessing your files from the cstel.net Host
The URL for your new files is:
http://web.infoave.net/~username/filename.html
where username is your Username and filename.html
is the name of any HTML file you wish to access.
**Note that if your "home page" file is named
index.html,
you do not need to specify the filename; you may simply open the following
URL: http://web.infoave.net/~username