Southern Star - Personal Web Site Information

General

This is some general information about administrating your personal web site.

First you will need to have your personal web site info.

Hostname
Username
Password

To view your web site surf to http://www.sstar.com/<username>. Initially all that is there is a default start-up page. What's needed is for you to to put your web site files on the server.

For FTP or SFTP updates use the above information to log in to the host. Then change to the "web" directory before uploading your web site files. Note: This is the web directory in the log in directory. Type "cd web" to get to it. Also, when transferring the files, make sure to use the correct mode. Use "ascii" for text files and "binary" for image files.

In addition, you can manage certain aspects of the site yourself and see various information, by pointing your web browser to http://www.sstar.com/personal/. Log in with the username and password.

Features

In case you are curious, the web server is a Sun/Cobalt RaQ XTR. It is based on the Apache web server running on the Linux operating system. Software features include:

HTTP 1.1
CGI scripting with Perl, PHP 4, and Chili!Soft ASP
Java support for Sun's Java run-time environment 1.3
Backup/Restore functions
SSL, Telnet, SSH, FTP and SFTP WebMaster access

For additional information, both the web server user manual and the ASP manual are available online.

Notes

The username and password are both case sensitive.
File and directory names are case sensitive.
The startup file should be "index.html". You might want to save the one that is there already before you replace it.
CGI, PHP, and ASP are enabled.
For CGI scripts use filename extension ".cgi" or ".pl". Set permissions to 775. Place in the cgi-bin directory.
For PHP scripts use filename extension ".php". Set permissions to 664.
For ASP scripts use filename extension ".asp". Set permissions to 664.
For Perl scripts use path "#!/usr/bin/perl".
For sendmail use path "/usr/sbin/sendmail".
Let us know if you need shell access. You can use either Telnet or SSH. The log in info is the same as for FTP.
If you need more disk space it is available for a fee.
Make sure to backup your web site. We do not make a backup of it here.