What are your DNS Servers?

DNS servers for web hosting at Provide.Net are:

DNS1.PROVIDE.NET
216.86.64.33
DNS2.PROVIDE.NET
216.86.64.34

How do I upload my website to your server?

You will need to FTP to your domain using your username and password that you specified when you signed up. If you are using Frontpage, you can use Frontpage to upload the site.

Why doesn't Frontpage allow me to login?

Did you tell us to enable Frontpage extensions? You will need to tell our support staff to enable Frontpage extensions for your website.

Where are the locations of Perl and Sendmail?

Perl is located at /usr/bin/perl

Sendmail is located at /usr/sbin/sendmail

How do I use Count.cgi?

You can refer to the counter program from your web page like this:

<img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=username.dat" align=absmiddle>

The string between ? and " is called the QUERY_STRING. Make sure there is no newlines in the <img src= line and no space in the QUERY_STRING. Here in, df=username.dat, df means your counter datafile. The counter stores the hits in this file. The counter program has lots of options, you can make it work and look the way you desire. In the query string, you can use the options described in the table below. The options can be separated by a | or a &. You can use either one or combination of both. Here is an example:
<img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?ft=T&frgb=gold|df=sample.dat" align=absmiddle>

The options can be in any order and not case sensitive.

Here is a good example page.

Digit-mania has many different styles of numbers you can use.

How do I use cgiemail and cgiecho?

We support the cgiemail programs from MIT for collecting form data. This is a very versatile form processing-to-email gateway for the advanced HTML Programmer. Rather than re-invent the wheel, please read MIT's User Manual.

PLEASE READ THIS MANUAL and try to do each of the nine steps before asking for help. They have EXCELLENT example templates that you can use on your webpage. Provide Net has installed this program so that EVERY user can use it for their page. The templates are good starting points, but be sure that you type in the templates with the lines completely left justified. Mail programs require the To:, From:, and Subject:, headers. You can use a program like notepad.exe or wordpad.exe to edit the pure text files.

The location you need to put in your "FORM ACTION" field for these programs is:

For Personal Webspace:

http://www.provide.net/cgi-bin/cgiemail/~userid/template.txt

For Hosted Domains:

http://www.yourhostname.com/cgi-bin/cgiemail/template.txt

WARNING: Do not just use this URL, read documentation first!

If you're new to the Web and HTML documents, the links below should be of interest.

HTML Reference Material

More Advanced Reference Material