WEB HELP

CREATING WEB AREA

UPLOADING YOUR WEB PAGES

ONE:

Login and access telnet. When prompted for a host, enter "boulder". At the resulting login prompt, enter your Earthnet user ID, wait for the password prompt, and then enter your password.

At the UNIX shell prompt (boulder.earthnet.net), type mkweb, then [enter]. This will create a directory called public_html that is the home for all of your html files. Within that directory, a sample homepage.html will be created. This is the default name, and your main page must be named homepage.html. To exit telnet, type "exit", then [enter].

TWO:

Access your ftp application. Make sure that:
  1. the profile name selected is "earthnet.net";
  2. you locate the "User ID" and "Password" fields and enter your correct Earthnet user ID and password;
  3. insure that the "Save Password" check-box is selected;
  4. you click on the "Save" button at the top of the screen, then click "OK".

THREE:

Once the ftp software connects with Earthnet, you will see a screen that has a window for your local system on the left and a window for the remote system on the right. You can view, rename, and delete files on the local or remote host. If you want to modify an existing web page, you can rename the individual files already on Earthnet so that they won't be overwritten when you upload your new files; i.e., homepage.html to homepage.bak.

FOUR:

On the remote system, change the directory by double-clicking on public_html. In the same manner, locate the html files on your local system by double-clicking on directories or by using the "ChgDir" button.

Make sure that you select ascii for the protocol to transfer *.html files and binary for transferring images (on Macintosh use raw data for images). Upload your files (*.gif or *.jpg) into your "public_html" directory by clicking the arrow pointing to the right in the middle of the ftp screen.

FIVE:

YOU NOW HAVE A PAGE ON THE WORLD-WIDE WEB!

(If you have any questions regarding these instructions, please feel free to contact us by e-mail at PC Support or MAC Support. Or call us at XXX-XXX-XXXX.)

CREATING A DEDICATED URL

Did you want your URL to be http://www.your_domain.com rather than http://www.earthnet.net/~your_user_id?

Contact Unix Support at Earthnet, you must have a domain name registered and we assign a specific IP address to that name.

CREATING CGI'S

        Inorder to create a cgi script file on Earthnet, you must first
        create a HTML form (name_of_form.html).  When creating this form, 
        you must adhear to the following syntacs:
 
        <FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="/cgi_user/form_"your userid".cgi">
        ...
        <INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT"<>INPUT TYPE="RESET">
        </FORM>

Once your html form is complete run the instant_cgi2 program:

Then you need to email Unix Support to have your form_"your_userid.cgi" moved into the cgi_user area.

IMAGEMAPS

If you want to have an imagemap this is the proper syntax:

<A HREF="https://web.archive.org/web/19980128052505id_/http://www.earthnet.net/cgi-bin/imagemap/~userid/button.map">
<IMG SRC="https://web.archive.org/web/19980128052505id_/http://www.earthnet.net/~userid/button.gif" ISMAP>

and the button.map contains full path URL's for example:

COUNTERS

You can place in your html for a counter:

<img src="https://web.archive.org/web/19980128052505id_/http://www.earthnet.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=userid-page" align=absmiddle>

in your html document. If you have your own domain name you must contact Unix Support at Earthnet to have your domain added to the counter configuration file.