Uploading Your Webpage

• The home pages are setup in your shell account on QContinuum. When you first got your account on QContinuum your account was setup with a "demo" type page. You can view this page by going to URL "www.qcontinuum.com/~username" (Replace the word "username" with your real username"). What you need to do is replace or modify this page with one you want. After you have it ready you can send e-mail to support@qcontinuum.com and let use know so we can add your page to our server's main pages.

  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.

• Another method is to telnet to your shell account and use unix to edit and create your web pages. There are many advantages to this but it is harder to learn. I am not going to go into the detail that I did above because I can't teach an entire operating system in one short document. There are many books that you can buy on the subject. The same rules for naming file listed above apply here. Here are some commands to get you started. If you are used to this type of operating system you should be able to pick it up from here.

  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)

• The other method is to mount you shell account as a network drive on your computer. This takes some additional setup and is covered in a different document. Click here for instructions on how to Map you shell account.
  
• You can get more help when you get stuck by sending email to Support. There are also many books on using UNIX and making HTML documents at your local book store.