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ASE Internet, Incorporated offers storage space for web pages with global public access to those pages over the Internet. We also offer a limited form of program execution known as "cgi-bin." Our computers are 450 mHz machines or better running Apache over BSD Apache responds to web page fetch requests from remote browsers while BSD is one of several variants of the Unix operating system.
Every customer gets his own password protected userid under Linux. By logging in with his userid, the customer gains access to his web storage space. Every userid "owns" a structure of disk subdirectories in the Linux file system. The "root" of this structure is the "home" directory, found at path "usr/home/userid." Note that this is somewhat similar to the MS-DOS directory structure, except that there is no drive letter and forward slashes are used instead of backward slashes. The path referred to above, however is in relation to our own servers. When you ftp to your account using your domain name and userid, you don't need to put in "usr/home/userid." You will automatically be taken there.
Inside the home directory are many files and other directories. The most important one is named "htdocs" the "WWW" directory. These are the files that will be visable from the World Wide Web.
/usr/home/user name/htdocs
Every customer has his own separate "www" subdirectory. Files placed in the "www" directory are visible to remote browsers over the Internet, so this is where you want to place all your html documents, graphics, sounds, files, etc. which you want people to be able to access from the world wide web. For example, when a browser asks for URL http://yourdomain.com/page.html, Apache looks for the file: /www/yourdomain/page.html and sends it out.
The filename of your home page should be index.htm, index.html, or index.shtml. The webserver will automatically send the file at path /www/yourdomain/index.html when a browser specifies http://www.yourdomain.com. When your account is set up, there will be an index.htm page already installed. This just tells anyone accessing your domain that your site is under construction and will be available soon. You will replace this file in the www directory with one of your own creation. If you wish to use any of the cgi features we provide that use Server Side Includes (SSI), you must name your page with the .shtml extension. You can put an index.htm file in any subdirectory that you wish, and it will be the default page served when you don't want your visitors to have to type a full page URL reference, for example, http://www.yourdomain.com/whatever/ instead of http://www.yourdomain.com/whatever/page.htm, or http://www.yourdomain.com/whatever.htm.
Now that we know where the files have to be located in order to be visible from the Internet, just how do we put the files there? There are several ways, depending on your computer system. For the Macintosh, a program called "Fetch" is used. Microsoft Windows systems use WS_FTP. Look further in this manual for detailed instructions on each of these programs.
A name of anywhere from 3-16 letters is legal for email accounts, FTP accounts, and telnet accounts. There is no limitation for file names on the server.
To count accesses, there is a directory called logs in your directory. That file contains all of your web page accesses since midnight of the current day.
To change your password, please e-mail support@aseinternet.com
Some files you may use are in .zip format. You will need a program called Winzip (or similar) to "unzip" them.
We recommend using Eudora as your email client. This is a mail program that runs under MS Windows and Macintosh OS. Eudora connects to the mail server over the Winsock or Macintosh TCP/IP. Mail may be composed and read offline, but make sure that Winsock or TCP/IP is running before attempting to send or receive email. Although your account exists on our server, you won't be able to receive email at yourname@yourdomain.com until InterNIC has activated you in the domain name servers.
After Eudora has been installed, it must be configured to point to your server. To do this, start Eudora and select "Settings" from the menu bar. Most of the options are self explanatory. Here are the steps you need to perform to set up Eudora:
That's pretty much all the configuration Eudora needs. Many of the configuration areas will be filled in when you go to them, for instance it will usually fill in the POP account info where ever it needs it after you enter it the first time. Now, when you select "Check Mail" under the File menu, a window will pop up asking for your password. Enter in your password then click on the proceed button and Eudora will check to see if you have email. You can now send a test email message to yourself and then check to see if it gets returned to you. If you checked "Save Password" as in step 12, Eudora will not prompt you again for your password after the first time. If multiple users have access to your computer, and you don't want them to have access to your email account, make sure "Save Password" is unchecked.
Your default email address is yourdomain@yourdomain.com, and that's where all your email will be sent to, unless other configurations take priority (such as autoresponders and redirects mentioned later).
If you would like additional POP email accounts, ask us and we'll set it up for you. Remember there are additional one-time charges and monthly fees for each additional POP account. To check numerous POP accounts, read the manual or help files that come with Eudora or your email client software for configuration.
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