Accessing your web shell account:
There are three ways to access your shell account (two of them are covered in this document). One way is by FTP. FTP is used to move files from your computer to your shell account. This allows you to create and test your pages on your computer at home and then FTP (move) them to your shell account on QContinuum. For many people this is the easiest way. The following is a step by step for using ftp to install your web pages.
1) Start up the FTP software on your computer. If you don't
have a FTP program on your computer you can get a copy by
connecting to URL "ftp://qcontinuum.com/pub/startup_kit" using
Netscape or some other WWW browser. ws_ftp works great for Windows
3.1 and 95. The following instructions are based on ws_ftp because
its the most used. Any FTP software will work.
2) When ws_ftp starts up you will see a window called Session
Profile. Click on the new button.
3) Fill out the form as follows:
Profile Name: qcontinuum
Host Name: qcontinuum.com
Host type: auto detect
User Id: "insert your username"
Password: "insert your password"
Leave the rest blank and click Connect.
4) The program should be connected to your shell account on
QContinuum. The session profile screen should be gone and the main
FTP screen should be showing. The screen is split into four
sections. The sections on the left are your computer at your house
and the sections on the right is your shell account at QContinuum.
The top sections are directories and the bottom sections are
files.
5) Double click on directories on the left side (your computer)
until you are in the directory you put your files in that you want
to move to your shell account. On the right side double click on
the public_html directory. Note: The public_html directory in your
shell account is were your web pages must to be. You can make
sub-directories within your public_html directory to organize your
work better.
6) Now that you have both your computer and the shell account were
you want them you can move files from one computer to the other by
highlighting the file you want to move and clicking on the arrow
button. You can select more then file by holding down the Shift
key and clicking on more than one file.
7) Now you need to rename the files so they will work correctly.
First the main page must be named "index.html". To rename a file
click on it and press the rename button. Type the new name. All
hypertext files (HTML) most end in a ".html" and not a ".htm".
Since DOS will not let you use ".html" you must rename them after
they are moved.
8) That's it! :) Test your stuff and send us e-mail.
1) mkdir - to make a directory
2) cd - to move to a directory
3) ls - to list what files are in a directory
4) man {command} - Manual/help for commands
5) (There are a lot of editors in the UNIX world. Pico is easy to
learn. To edit [pico {filename}] ie [pico
index.html])
Remember you can test your pages by using URL "http://www.qcontinuum.com/~username" (replace username with your real username)