Homepage Questions
What's going on?
Each home user gets 5Mb of web space with their standard dialup
account, to request the setting up of your account please e-mail
help@fastnet.co.uk with
the username you would like to use. FTP access to your sites
is permitted and, once your account is setup, you will be given
a username and password to access your site.
Please note that this is a discretionary service and misuse of this
service may result in its withdrawal.
What's the address then?
Your web page (once it setup) will be accessible via the URL:
http://home.fastnet.co.uk/username
Your username, by default, is the left-hand side of your e-mail
address (username@fastnet.co.uk) although you can request a
different username just for the homepage service.
Ok, I've got some pages together, how do I upload them onto my site?
To access your site you will have to use a piece of software called an
'FTP Client', this will enable you to login to our server remotely and
upload files into the directory on our server. Remember to login with
the username and password given to you rather than logging in anonymously.
I can't see my webpage!
If you are having problems accessing your site, and you have requested
*and recieved acknowledgement* that your site has been setup please
check the following:
- Usernames and passwords on our systems are case sensitive (e.g. this does not equal THis)
- Usernames are limited to 8 characters and are case sensitive
- Passwords must be typed in exactly as given to you
- There will already be a file in your directory called index.html, you will have to
delete it before you upload your files.
- index.html takes precedence over index.htm, i.e our server will look for the file
index.html first and will then fall back to index.htm
- Files in your directory are case-sensitive, it is best to keep all filenames
and links in your web page lowercase.
I can't upload my file - I get some kind of password error!
It may be that your account hasn't yet been setup on the home page server.
if you get password errors on first trying to login to the sytem please
e-mail help@fastnet.co.uk to
verify that your account has been setup.
Can I find my friends homepage?
Sure - try
our search engine that will look up FastNet homepages. Or perhaps
it's in our list of
active homepages.
Where can I find an FTP client?
The Win3.1 version of WS_FTP can be found at :
Look at www.cjnetworks.com
for Fetch, the Mac FTP program.
Win95 has a terminal-based FTP program called "ftp" you could try.
If you want a graphical alternative, try
WS_FTP.
You can also try CuteFTP for a better Win3.1 and Win95
FTP program.
How do I make a home page anyway?
See
the NCSA HTML Primer for an introduction, or any good book on HTML from a high street
bookshop should do the trick.
Can I use Microsoft Frontpage?
Yes, you can, but the server does not support the Microsoft Frontpage
Extensions. Have a look at
Chris Skardon's Frontpage help page for more information on using Frontpage.
How do I do forms then?
We have a highly configurable forms processor called CoolMail, for
information on how to use CoolMail please see the manual page.
Can I use cgi-bin scripts in my own directory?
Yes you can, place the program within a directory called
cgi-bin (create it if it doesn't already exist) and change
the permissions on the file to 755, you can do this in
CuteFTP by going to Commands/Change File Attributes.
Your file must also have a .cgi extensions.