Visitors may access your site at http://www.webcom.com/youruserid/ through the Web, or at ftp://ftp.webcom.com/pub(#)/youruserid/ through FTP (visitors should not use this address to access your site with a Web browser). Your site may also be accessed through our home page, by people browsing our Customer Index.

When you have successfully logged on to the FTP server, you will automatically be placed in your home directory. Your WebCom home directory is also your FTP directory, and contains your www subdirectory as well.

All files uploaded to (written to) your WebCom directory by you or other users (should you choose to permit this) will be set up so that only you can access them initially (except files under your www subdirectory, which are always publicly readable on the Web, regardless of the file permissions). To change a file so that it can be read via FTP, you will alter the file's permissions. If you do not understand permissions, see our FTP file permissions tutorial.

We have already set up a number of files for you in your WebCom directory:

The www directory under your home directory is where the WebCom Web Server looks for files. For instance, accesses to "http://www.webcom.com/userid/filename.html" or "http://www.your_domain.com/filename.html" will access filename.html in this directory. Any files you wish to make available through the Web should be placed under the www directory.

If you create another directory in your home directory (where you wind up when you log in), and place files in it, people will not be able to access them through the Web. All directories intended to store files for distribution through the Web should be placed under the www directory and its subdirectories. Renaming, deleting, or moving the www directory will also prevent any Web access to your files.

The logs directory under your home directory is where a file named log, containing a record of all accesses to your site, through FTP or the Web, is stored. Records of accesses are not written to the log file in real time, but intermittently after a certain number of accesses have accumulated. The file and directory are set up so that only you may access it.

If you do not wish to use disk space for a personal access log, delete the logs directory. You may restore it at any time, and a record of accesses from that moment will begin to accumulate. You can also delete the log file at anytime, and (if you don't delete the logs directory) the system will create a new log file next time data is scheduled to write to the log file.

The form directory under your home directory is only used by the WebCom forms processor. If you do not use the forms processor you will not need this directory. We have only created it for the convenience of those who plan to use the form processor. For more information about the forms processor, see our forms processor documentation.

The default.htm file under your www directory is a temporary file placed in your account so that people browsing WebCom do not get "dead" links. It contains this graphic and the message "This site under construction." The name you specified as the "Site Description" when opening the account will also display as the page's title.

Replace this file with your own page when you are ready. Make sure the replacement is named "welcome.html" or one of the other files that our system looks for by default. The system looks for this file by default if the person browsing your site enters the URL of your site without any specific filename (e.g., http://www.yourcompany.com or http://www.webcom.com/youruserid/ if you don't register your own domain name). would result in the system attempting to display the welcome.html file in your www subdirectory).

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