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World Web Folder
Basic Configuration Instructions

This document details the steps involved in creating and installing your web site on World. It is organized in the following sections:

Setting Up Your Account With The Ability to Host a Web Site
Creating Your Web Site
- Creating Your Site With a Graphical Web Site Creation Tool
- Creating Your Site Manually With an Ascii Text Editor
Important Things to Know When Creating Your Web Site
Uploading Your Web Site to World
- Transferring Your Files Via FTP
- Transferring Your Files Via x-, y-, or z-modem
- Transferring Your Files With Netscape Gold
- Transferring your files with Front Page
Other Important Things to Know
- General
- World Web Folder Usage Statistics
- Adding Your Page To Our Customer Pages Index
- Turning Your Page Off, On/Canceling
- URLS Of Interest

Important Note: There are several sections throughout this document that instruct you to type a command at the "world%" prompt. In order to reach the "world%" prompt, you will need to access your World account in shell mode. You can do this with a communications program such as ProComm, ZTerm, Telix, Microphone, Windows Terminal, Hyperterminal, etc. or any telnet client that works over a Slip/PPP connection. If you are not familiar with accessing your shell account, please contact World staff at 617-739-0202 or support@world.std.com .

1. Setting Up Your Account With The Ability to Host a Web Site

If you have not done so already, the first thing you need to do to set up your account with the ability to host a web site is to type:

world% homepage

This will create a directory called "public_html" where all of your html files will go.

2. Creating Your Web Site

Creating Your Site With a Graphical Web Site Creation Tool
These days, there are many ways to create your web site. Many of our customers are using graphical web site authoring tools such as Netscape Gold, Microsoft's Front Page, HotMetal, Hot Dog, etc. The benefit of these types of programs is that you don't need to know any HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language - the language used to create your web pages) in order to create your web site.
Creating Your Site Manually With an Ascii Text Editor
If you don't have one of these programs, or wish to create your HTML files manually, you can use any ascii text editor you prefer. On World, you can use pico, emacs, vi, etc.; in Windows 3.1 or Windows 95, you can use Notepad (located in the Accessories group); on a Mac, you can use SimpleText or TeachText.

If you are manually creating your site, you should first take a look at our sample "freduser" site located at:

http://world.std.com/~freduser

You can view the HTML source code of this page by choosing View/Source in your graphical browser. Or, you can copy these template files into your public_html directory by typing:

world% cp ~freduser/index.html ~login/public_html/index.html

world% cp ~freduser/hobbies.html ~login/public_html/hobbies.html

Now you can modify these files to contain your personal information. Start with the index.html which contains your name, your mail address, a place for your favorite quote, etc. You can edit this file on World by changing into your "public_html" directory (unless you're already there):

world% cd public_html

and starting the "pico" editor:

world% pico index.html

Next, you will want to modify the hobbies.html document. This is included to provide an example of how to link additional documents to your index.html file. Assuming that you are still in your "public_html" directory, you can edit this file in the same manner:

world% pico hobbies.html

Please note that you should change ~freduser in both index.html and hobbies.html to reflect your own Web Web Folder area. If for example your World account is jones@world.std.com, you should change any instance of ~freduser to ~jones in both index.html and hobbies.html.

3. Important Things to Know When Creating Your Web Site

Your home page (the file that is displayed by default when people access your site) needs to be named "index.html" (all lower case letters).
If you are using a web authoring program that runs under Windows 3.1 (or a 16 bit program under Windows 95), your main page will be named "index.htm" instead of "index.html". This is because files in Windows 3.1 can only have a maximum of 3 letters in the extension part of the file name, in this case, ".htm". To get around this, you can type the following command *after* uploading your files to World:
world% ln index.htm index.html

This is only necessary for the "index.htm" file and does not apply to other files that make up your web site. Just make sure that you are in your "public_html" directory when you type this command (you can use the "pwd" command to see what directory you are currently in). This command only needs to be typed once, just after you upload your "index.htm" file for the first time. It will be in effect from that point forward, even if you upload new or edited files to World.
In the "index.html" file, you will need to include the <BASE HREF> HTML tag somewhere in between the <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags (these should be located near the top of your document - just after the <HTML> tag) like so:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<BASE HREF="http://world.std.com/~login/">
</HEAD>

Just replace the word "login" with your login name. For example, if your login name is "jones", the line will read:

<BASE HREF="http://world.std.com/~jones/">

4. Uploading Your Web Site to World

Unless you have created your web site files solely on World (using one of our online editors), you will need to upload the files you have created to your World account. The method you choose to do this will depend upon the software you use to connect to World.

Transferring Your Files Via FTP
If you are connecting to World via Slip/PPP and are using a graphical FTP program such as Fetch, WS_FTP, CuteFTP, etc., you can simply tell your FTP program to connect to world.std.com with your login name and password. Once you are connected, change into your "public_html" directory and put your files there. You will need to transfer your files in two batches: one batch for your html files, and one batch for your graphics files. You will want to transfer your html files as "ascii text" and your graphics files as "binary".
Transferring Your Files Via x-, y-, or z-modem
If you are using a terminal emulator or communications software such as ProComm, Telix, ZTerm, Microphone, Comit, White Knight, etc., you will need to upload your files using either x-, y-, or z-modem. First, you will need to change into your "public_html" directory:

world% cd public_html

You can then upload all of your html files by typing:

world% rz -a

Then tell your software to send the files. When that's done, you can upload all of your graphics files by typing:

world% rz

Then tell your software to send the files. If your software supports x-modem instead, you will need to replace the "z" in the above commands with "x" and include the name of the files you are uploading:

world% rx -a filename (to upload html files)

world% rx filename (to upload graphics files)

Once all the files are uploaded, you will need to type:

world% chmod a+r *

If you have created any subdirectories (perhaps to hold images or collections of related files), you will need to set permissions on the directories by typing:

world% chmod a+rx subdirectory_name
Transferring Your Files With Netscape Gold
To publish with Netscape Gold, the only thing you need, technically, is the "Publish location." To set the publish location, you have to know the name of your home directory. To find out, log in to the World shell and run:

world% pwd

(which stands for print working directory). If your login name is "jones", You'll see something like:

/home/ghar/jones

Depending on which version of Netscape Gold you have, there are two possible notations for "publish" location.

In the most recent version of Netscape Gold (3.0x), you are allowed to enter your name and password, under "Options", "Editor Preferences", on the "Publish tab". If your copy allows you to put in a User Name and Password, the publish location is:

ftp://world.std.com/home/ghar/jones/public_html

Just replace "/home/ghar/jones" with the name of your home directory. If you are using a version of Gold that doesn't allow for that, your publish location is:

ftp://jones@world.std.com/home/ghar/jones/public_html

Just replace "jones" with your login name and "/home/ghar/jones" with the name of your home directory. In those versions, Gold will ask for a password when it connects to World's web server.
Transferring your files with Front Page
First, a quick note about Front Page: due to security issues, World does not support the Front Page extensions which allow you to upload your files to World via Front Page. The latest version of Front Page (Front Page 97) allows two methods for uploading your files: one which uses the Front Page extensions, and one which does not. Because we do not support the Front Page extensions, you will need to choose the latter.

If you are using an older version of Front Page, you will need to transfer your files via either FTP or x-, y-, or z-modem (see above).

That said, here are the settings you will need to upload your files using Front Page 97:

FTP Server: world.std.com
Target Directory: ~/public_html
Your Login Name: your World login name
Your Password: your World password
Your URL: http://world.std.com/~login/

where "login" is your World login name.

5. Other Important Things to Know

General
The URL (Uniform Resource Locator) that people will use to access your home page is:

http://world.std.com/~login/

where "login" is your login name.

Please note that World Web Folder does not provide anonymous FTP space, nor a directory where you can install your own CGI programs. A few popular CGI programs (counters, form-to-mail processors, etc.) are available for use by customers using World Web Folder, for examples and documentation, see:

http://world.std.com/~wexample

The Kiosk "Website" service provides anonymous FTP space and a directory in which you can install your own CGI scripts; for information see:

http://www.std.com

For further details on html configuration use the following URL with lynx or your graphical user interface software:

http://world.std.com/help/topic/www/

Special care must be taken with images, Java applets, etc. as they tend to be large, expensive and slow during transfer. If you're publishing a page with large graphics or an applet that you think will be highly popular, be aware that everyone who visits your site downloads the graphics/applet thus increasing your byte transfer total.

World Web Folder documents count against your World disk quota. If you need additional space for World Web Folder documents, you will need to obtain a disk quota increase. See "help rates" for details.
World Web Folder Usage Statistics
The following commands will give you hit statistics for your home page:

world% charges -w

world% wwwacct

world% wwwsum

You can use the command:

world% charges -w

or

world% wwwacct -t

to get a summary of the current day's hits and charges.

world% wwwacct

alone will give you a list of the accesses and transfers for the current day.

world% wwwacct -d mm/dd/yy

will give you the same information for a particular day.

world% wwwsum start-date [ end-date ]

will give records from start-date to end-date.

You can get more information on the above commands with:

world% man charges

or

world% man wwwacct

or

world% man wwwsum

or by pointing your browser to:

http://world.std.com/help/cmd/charges/

or

http://world.std.com/help/cmd/wwwacct/
Adding Your Page To Our Customer Pages Index
We have an index of customer home pages on our main page (http://world.std.com). You can add your page to that list if you like.

In order to add your personal homepage to the index list, send mail to:

majordomo@world.std.com

with the message of:

subscribe hpa-index you@world.std.com (put a short description here)

You *must* put parentheses around the text.

Make sure you fill in your own World account name. The description field in the parentheses will show up next to your login name on the page index. If you don't fill anything in, the name that appears on your account will show up instead.

Every 24 hours, the system will take the list of mailing list subscribers and generate the new index list. If you wish to remove your home page from the index list, send mail to:

majordomo@world.std.com

with the message:

unsubscribe hpa-index
Turning Your Page Off, On/Canceling
To disable your World Web Folder, use:

world% homepage off

You will be able to access files in your area (via FTP or the UNIX shell), but Web service is inactive. This stops hit and transfer byte charges from accruing.

To re-enable your World Web Folder, use:

world% homepage on

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from your World Web Folder service simply type:

world% homepage cancel
URLS Of Interest
Index of World Customers' World Web Folder pages

http://world.std.com/~hpaindex

A Beginner's Guide to HTML

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html

Composing Good HTML

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tilt/cgh/

CGI programs available to World customers

http://world.std.com/~wexample

Happy Webbing!