Hugh Birkenhead wrote:
> Philip Newton schrieb:
> > > Is it accessible via FTP?
> >
> > I think it's possible to create an extra FTP account.
>
> If you can create an extra account, brilliant, if not, it
> doesn't matter.
OK, you should be able to FTP there (= shavian.org) with username hugh,
password ghoti. However, any files you put there will end up in
http://shavian.org/hugh/ . This makes it a bit difficult to update the main
site.
Would it be OK for you to create a subdirectory under your FTP root
directory to put the main web site in and then sending me email whenver you
want me to copy the pages over into the real website root? That might take a
day or five for me to get around to doing, but I'd feel better at the moment
not giving out the main site password (which would also allow shell access).
Then you could put any of your pages into / and pages for the root into,
say, /mainsite (or whatever).
That way, you can put pretty much any of your own content (within reason)
under your FTP root. CGI scripts should be executable in any directory if
they have a known suffix, for example .cgi .
I put two sample files in that directory: index.html and sample.cgi. So the
following links should work: http://shavian.org/hugh/ and
http://shavian.org/hugh/sample.cgi (which is a really simple script that
just prints "Hello, world!"). One thing to watch out for is that you have to
mark any CGI scripts as executable, for example with "quote site chmod 755
sample.cgi" if you're using the command-line DOS FTP client. (Other clients
probably also have a way to let you execute 'chmod' on the server end.)
> How much exactly is the webspace/domain name combination
> costing you per year?
The webspace (with digitalspace.net) costs me $3/month, billed yearly ($36
per year) and the domain name (with joker.com) costs me EUR 13.92/year. So a
total of round about 50-60 euros per year, depending on the exchange rate.
> > Perhaps I'll put my Verdurian stuff elsewhere to free up some space.
>
> I don't think there should be a problem - the pages you have
> on it don't take up that much space, I'm sure - do they?
About four megs (mostly because of a large number of small image files in
one directory, where each file takes up a whole disk block even though it's
quite a bit smaller). But after finding and deleting a couple of old log
files in the root directory, the entire site now only comprises about 5.5 MB
-- so there should be enough room for growth.
By the way, Reply-To should be set for shavian2@... --
that alias will reach me both at home and at work. I'd appreciate it if
you'd send messages about the site to that address, then I can look into it
wherever I am at the moment, when I have some time. Some things are more
easily done from home [mostly because the company firewall doesn't let out
telnet or SSH connections, nor HTTP connections to ports other than 80] and
some I can do from either place.
Cheers,
Philip
--
Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>
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