1.
Introduction
Thank you for choosing Funio
2.
Website creation
Directory
Structure
Structure
of your website
Online Resources
3.
Publishing your website
FrontPage
2000
How
to access your website with FrontPage
Updating
your website
DreamWeaver
4.0
Configuration
Resources
for DreamWeaver
FTP
Clients
FTP
Configuration
List
of FTP clients
4. CGI
scripts
Introduction
to CGI
Script
configuration
Your
website location on the server (Chemin d'accès/Path)
Location
of "sendmail" on funio server
Location
of "perl" on funio server
Location
of "date" on funio server
The
role of permissions (CHMOD)
Important
notes on CGI
Other
resources on CGI scripts
5. Other
options
PHP
Introduction
toPHP
How
to use PHP
Website
statistics
How
to see your website stats
6. Electronic
mail (email)
Introduction
to electronic mail
Email
software configuration
Adding
pop accounts and aliases
Changing
POP account password
7. Management
Interface
Add
service (New domain, new package, etc.)
Cancel
a service
Modify
service
POP
accounts management
Email
aliases management
FrontPage
management
Disk
space usage
Lost
password
Thank you for choosing Funio
Thank you for choosing Funio automated webhosting solution. Funio is well known on internet for it's simplicty, robustness, intuitive user interface and multituded of hosting features. After reading this manual we are confident you will be able to utilize Funio to its fullest potential.
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Directory structure
A webisite normally consists of many files stored in one or more directories.
Root directory: It is the main directory of your webspace. By default all FTP software clients upon successful login goto that directory.
Default Index file: This is the file that is displayed to users by default when they access your domain with the browser. Normally that file is named "index.html" or "index.htm". For example when the user tries to access "http://www.domain.com"
the web server assumes that "http://www.domain.com/index.html" or "http://www.domain.com/index.htm" file was requested. If those files were not found then the content of your root directory will be displayed.
Important note regarding file names: Directory names and filenames are case sensitive. For example "site.html" and "SITE.HTML" are two different file names.
Structure of your website
It is important to structure your site properly. There are 2 main reasons for that.
- It will be easier to users to browse through your website.
- It will be easier for you to maintain and update information.
Few helpful tips:
- Use logical and intuitive names for your files. (Example:
An image file named "family_picture.jpg" makes more sense than a file named "image1243.jpg")
- Use sub-directories to separate files into different classes. For example for images create a directory /images for audio files create a directry /audio.
- Stick to your naming conventions, be consistent with your choices.
Online resources
Below are links to online resources on how to build and maintain websites.
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| 3.
Publishing your website |
FrontPage
2000
FrontPage
2000 - How to access your website with FrontPage.
From the FrontPage main menu open "Files" sub-menu and select "Open Web". A new window will appear. Now enter the full path to your site into the "Web name" field. For example http://www.domain.com
Few seconds later an authetication window will appear and you will be asked to enter your FrontPage account name and password. To configure your FrontPage accounts use funio user interace (WWW->FrontPage).
FrontPage
2000 - Updating your website.
There are two mains you can update your website.
First : You conect to the website and do all the updats live in real time.
Second: Once you connected to the site you do all the site updates localy on your computer then when you ready you click on "Publish" icon to transfer upply changes to your website.
DreamWeaver
5
DreamWeaver
5 - Configuration
From the main menu select "Site" sub-menu, then selection "New Site" option. A new window will apear. Next step is to fill in the fields with appropriate information. Once that is done a new site profile will be added to Dreamweavers configuration files.
Click
on "OK" once you have entered all the neccessary information.
You can now pulish your webpages using DreavWeaver without needing
to use any other software.
DreamWeaver
4 - Resources for DreamWeaver
C:\Program
Files\Macromedia\Dreamweaver 4\Help\UsingDreamweaver\ContextHelp.htm
Publishing
with FTP - FTP
Configuration
All
FTP programs require 3 important pieces of information in order
to be able to connect to any FTP server.
Host
Name: This
is the domain name of your website. Enter it in the folloing
format: www.domain.com
User
Name:
For funio you should enter webmaster@domain.com. Where domain.com
has to be replaced with your domain name.
Password
: This is the password that has been configured for the
webmaster@domain.com.
Publishing
with FTP - List
of FTP clients
WS-FTP -
http://www.wsftp.com
CuteFTP
- http://www.cuteftp.com
FTP Expert
- http:/www.visic.com/ftpexpert
More FTP applications..
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Introduction
to CGI
CGI
(Commun Gateway Interface) is a simple interface that allowes
you to create programms for your website that will use HTTP
protocol for communication. For example an online form for that
sends submitted information via email is a CGI script. CGI scripts
are executed in real time on the servers side and the results
are send to the web browser.
Script
Configuration
Your
website location on the server (absolute path)
The
absolute path of your webspace on funio webserver is as follows:
/www/domain.com/www
where domina.com should be replaced with your domain name.
Example:
If your domain is www.flowers.com, your absolute path on funio
will be:
/www/flowers.com/www
Location
of "sendmail" on funio server
/usr/sbin/sendmail
Location
of "perl" on funio server
The
first line of each and every CGI script should be
#!/usr/bin/perl
That
line specifies the location of the perl scrip interpreter on
our server.
Location
of "date" on funio server
/bin/date
The
role of permissions (CHMOD)
It
is very imporant to set right permissions on your CGI scripts
and other files.
The
majority of FTP clients allow you to do that.
To
make your scripts executable you should always set their permissions
to 0755
Files
that are going to be modified by your CGI scripts should have
their permissions set to 0666
For
more information please visit this
page or www.perl.com
Important
notes on CGI
Everytime
a CGI script is executed it consumes resources, because of that
the following scripts are NOT allowed on funio:
-
Banner rotation scripts
- Scripts
like "TopSites.cgi"
- Scripts
that consume alot of resources and affect the performance
of the webserver.
Online
resources on CGI scripts
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Introduction toPHP
Example:
1
2 <html>
3 <head>
4 <title>Example</title>
5 </head>
6 <body>
7 <?php echo "Hello, Im PHP script!"; ?>
8 </body>
9 </html>
10
The beauty
of PHP is that it allows you to easily blend your PHP code into
HTML pages.
How to use PHP
To
let the webserver know that the file contains PHP code to be
executed you should always give those files .php extentions.
PHP code stored in files with .html extentions will not be executed.
How to see your website stats
You
can easily access your website statistics by going to http://www.domain.com/usage
where domain.com should be replaced with your domain name.
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Electronic mail (email) |
Introduction
to electronic mail.
Electronic
Mail is the most common networking application, allowing users
across the globe to communicate with each other. Electronic
Mail (or email as its it often abbreviated) works across many
different types of networks, however users do not need to be
aware of how a message actually gets sent.
Email
will let you exchange messages with other users inside Bradford,
or people at Universities throughout Britain, or with a large
and rapidly growing number of people in education and commerce
throughout the world. Sending mail around the world is just
as easy as across the campus, provided you know the `address'
of the people you want to sent to.
Email
software configuration
To
find out how to configure email client software please consult
this section"Software
Configuration".
Adding pop accounts and aliases
You
can add email POP accounts and aliases from the client hosting
interface.
The
difference between POP accounts and aliases: A POP account
is an email account with a username and password assigned to
it. It is a final point of destination for incomming emails.
An email aliase is a valid email address on the internet, however
all the emails that are sent to it get redirected to the POP
account for which that alias was created.
Example:
info@domain.com can be configured an alias to information@domin.com
email POP account. Meaning that all emails sent to info@domain.com
will be automatically redirected to information.com.
Changing POP account password
In
order to change the password for the POP account you should
log into the hosting user interface. Once you logged in go to
"E-mail -> Pop Accounts".
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Add
service (New domain, new package etc..)
One
of many advantages of funio managenet interface is that you
can use the same user identification to purchase as many domains
as you want. There is no need to enter the same personal information
for each and every domain you purchase with us.
Once
you decide to register a new domain with funio or purchases
a new hosting plan go to "Add service setion" in the
management interface, then select a desired service, online
configuration form should appear. The last step is the online
service payment that is done in real time. Note: Please make
sure that your billing information is up to date before purchasing
a new service.
Cancel a service
To
cancel a service that you have purchased with funio use "Remove
Service" option in the management interface. Once you have
cancelled your service please note that the service will be
removed only on the date of its rebill date. If for example
you have cancelled a hosting package with the monthly payment
option, the service will be flaged to be removed, but wont be
actually removed until the end of the month it has been already
paid for.
POP accounts management
Each
funio hosting plan offeres you a certain number of available
email accounts. If you decided to configure a new POP email
account go to "Email -> Pop-Accounts" from the
user domain management menu.
Email aliases management
Email
aliases are valid email addresses that redirect all emails that
are sent to them to the specific POP account. For example if
info@domain.com is and alias for information@domain.com then
all the emails that are sent to info@domain.com will be redirected
to information@domain.com If you would like to configure your
email aliases go to "Email -> Email Alias" from
the user domain management menu.
FrontPage management
Introduction
to FrontPage 2000:
FrontPage
is a software application that is used for to create and modify
webpages in real time. FrontPage is very user friendly and has
an intuitive user interface. You do not even need to know HTML
to be able to use FrontPage it is that easy. Note: In order
to be able to take full advantage of FrontPage 2000 you must
have FrontPage extentions installed on your website.
FrontPage
2000 Configuration:
Before
you start using FrontPage 2000 you need to configure FrontPage
username/password from the user domain management menu. For
that select "WWW -> FrontPage extentions".
Disk space usage
Each
hosting package comes with a limited disk space usage. The disk
space (web space) is messured in MegaBytes. To check the disk
space that your site is taking please visit "WWW ->
Disk Space Monitor" from the user domain management interface.
Modification of your information
This
option allows you modify your peronal information like email,
address, zip, state, etc. Here you can also modify your credit
card information. Note: it is very important to make sure your
personal information is always up to date else you might have
billing problems.
Forgot your username/password?
If
you forgot your username/password you can either email our staff
or use our online lookup forms to retrieve your information.
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Forgotten password
If
you have forgotten your password, please contact customer
service
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