Hey chicken, youve been the man to answer all my other questions, so can you answer this one? Pweeez

Anyway, im just checking up that im doing this adding sites and users write, coz it seems a rather perculiar way of doing things.

So basically, I add the virtual site to the raq, basically adding the domain, then the diskspace, other bits and pieces, dns, etc.

So thats the domain and webspace all done, but then adding users, so I add a user and he has to have site administrator rights. Rite so far ?

Well if thats write, it seems odd, you have to set the quota for the user to be the same as the quota for the site?, or is there another default user for each site that I should know about ?

Its working the way it is, but it just seems too odd a way to be correct too me.

Well, I agree that that part is a bit odd (at least in terms of setting up the site and understanding why you'd have it set one way or another). As you know, there are two forms of users:

Siteadmins (for the domain) and users (domain.com/~user).

The siteadmin actually gets set up the same way as a user (they actually have space in the form of domain.com/~sideadmin ), and really, though it does seem a bit pointless, I guess the space setting covers that as well. If they are the siteadmin, you should give them a healthy amount of space to cover the actual site itself as well as their space (which you most likely won't use).

If you give them all the space, then users wouldn't be able to have any though, so you might not want to give them all the space, all the time.

There's no other default user for a site.

Yeah, thats write chicken, its rather odd this whole cobalt thing, Im dying just to do away with the whole control panel thing, and do everything myself, it would be much easier, but I read so many stories of the cobalt os, I dunno wanna mess around with it too much.


Yeah, the problem ive been having is when setting up a site for a user, and all they want is one user to administer the site and collect email, so im having to make a user and give them site admin and identical quota to that of the site.

This is all good until you come to ftp, people just dont understand that the files they put into /users/admin/web is wrong when uploading to the site, they are looking for the /web directory, because the ftp browsers are puttin them straight into the users directory.

With one user ive used vipw and changed the home directory, so that the ftp comes into the correct directory when they ftp in, thats because I have one site that is out of the ordinary directory structure anyway.

Gah, these cobalts are nice, but there so freakin wierd!

It seems like a real convoluted way of carrying out things and took me a bit to figure out the domain actually needed a user with site administration access, although I can ftp or telnet in as admin and not the user acct. I haven't tried to set ws_ftp do open a dir in the admin account that is nested back up to the web folder for the domain so I can directly edit pages rather than dragging them back to the web folder by cp. I'm assuming that this will work. So far it will not work with one editor that I use that has a built in ftp client.

The Raq is still pretty good and since I don't use it for running a hosting service (although I may after all my friends find out that I have this thing):) I can concentrate on my own site's content. With the control panel that comes with it, it's easier to operate than the radio in my Chevy.

Look for Remote Starting Directory and type /web in that other program you use, if it has somewhere to input this.

What proggy do you mean?, the ftp explorer or VIPW ?