| What are your DNS Servers? |
DNS servers for web hosting at Provide.Net are: DNS1.PROVIDE.NET |
| 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: 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. 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
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