*** scratches his head ***

hmmm, the raq3 directory structure is confusing ? All i want to know is where do i upload to, in order to replace the default cobalt place holder page for each virtual site i created on their own IP address ?

I'm not sure if this helps.

I'm on a RAQ machine virtual hosting.

When i FTP to my site, i will be inside this folder

/users/username

inside it, you will see a web folder & inside web a index.html.

TO REPLACE the default cobalt place holder page,

you have to go two directory up which means back to users directory & back again. Then you will see 4 folder called

1. certs
2. logs
3. users
4. web

All the files should be inside THIS web folder & NOT the web folder in the username directory.

If my explanation is BAD, try figuring this out. It is from tera-byte support page :)

file locations
This information applies to Cobalt RaQ accounts only. Files for your web site must go in "/web/", not in a user directory. When you first log in by FTP, you will normally be in your user directory. You must go back the highest level directory possible, then you will see the "web" directory. Each user directory also has a directory called "web/", but files in this directory will not be visible on the main web site. For example, let's assume you register "tera-byte.com" with us and your admin username is "tera-byte". When you log in via FTP, you will be in the /users/tera-byte/ directory. You have to change to the /web/ directory and put files there. If you put files in /users/tera-byte/web/, they will be visible at http://www.tera-byte.com/~tera-byte/, not http://www.tera-byte.com. It sounds confusing at first, but it's really not so bad: just put all your files in /web/ and you'll be fine. You can create subdirectories under /web/ as well.

By the way, how is you new box RAQ 3 with 4webspace?

aaron

To save yourself some hassle, in your FTP program do this:

Remote Starting Directory: /web

This will land you in the right place every time. The RaQ does ahve a odd quirk. It creates a web directory for every user. This means that often people will upload files in two places. One, the hidden-from-the-web-directory just under the USER'S 'web' directory. Or, they click on the 'web' folder and try to upload into the USER'S web directory itself.

(This would be viewable at http://domain.com/users/USERNAME or http://domain.com/~USERNAME)

Make sure the user you create is a siteadmin. Then when you log in via FTP, be sure you are at the '/' and then you can click on 'web' and upload. What I put at the top of this post solves all this, but.

thanks that helped alot ... funny way of doing this :)

this is a non raq related question, but i just ftp from my other server to my raq a 65MB tar file for one of my site's root directories named htdocs.tar

when i untarred it in

/web 2 levels up from the user directory using

tar xvf htdocs.tar

it came out as a folder /web/htdocs

i actually want the content of /web/htdocs or htdocs.tar extracted in /web so as to viewable on the web

how do i untar htdocs.tar and specify it to extract the files into /web ?

Chicken...You say the Remote Starting Directory should be '/web', and I was just wondering how to set that up?

Also, I put another site on my server already and don't want the user navigating througout my entire web structure. Is there anyway to limit their access to certain areas?

I thought you could only rome around if you made the username a admin?.

Opps, your right. Since ym admin name did, I assumed everyone could.

Anyway, does anyone know how to make the '/web' the default when FTP into any account on the server?

Are you using WS_FTP LE by chance? Really it shouldn't matter much, when you are about to connect, there should be options for you to adjust the Remote and Local directories (places where you start on your computer and on the remote server).

Also if you want to see hidden files on the RaQ, put -a in the Remote Mask area as well (you can add it in the white box you'll see on the server side of the directory listing with WS_FTP also. Easier.

Edit: when I open WS_FTP, I get the 'general' tab (one with all the host name, username info). Click on the 'startup' tab and you will see the area to enter all of the information above.

I'm using CuteFTP. It dosen't both me that much, but is there any way to permanetly change it on the server, so other accounts won't have to change directories just to upload stuff?

[Edited by cisites on 12-07-2000 at 02:46 PM]