Web Pages on Laidback.org

Uploading files

Once you have written your web pages, if they are not already on the Laidback server, you must FTP them.
If you are using a Windows based FTP client, connect to tornado.laidback.org, using your login name and password. If there are ASCII and Binary buttons or options, make sure the Binary one is selected or your pictures may not work properly. When the window comes up with your files on Laidback, double click on the www directory. There should already be a file there, called index.html. Select the pages from your harddisk and drag them over into the www folder on the server. If you have a file called index.html, it may ask if you want to overwrite the one that is already on the server - yes, you do. If you don't have a file called index.html, but are using index.htm, simply delete the index.html file from the server.
Using DOS or UNIX ftp, cd into the directory that contains the web pages on your system, then type ftp tornado.laidback.org and wait for the login screen. Enter your username and password. At the ftp> prompt, type cd www press enter, then bin, enter. To move the files, type mput *.* . Some clients do not allow mputs, so each file must be uploaded one at a time using put. See the example below...

unix-box:~$ cd web
unix-box:~/web$ ftp tornado.laidback.org
Connected to tornado.
220 tornado FTP server (Version wu-2.4(4) Wed Oct 15 16:11:18 PDT 1997) ready.
Name (tornado.laidback.org:lusername): user42
331 Password required for user42.
Password: <password invisible>
230 User user42 logged in.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using ASCII mode to transfer files.
ftp> cd www
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> bin    
200 Type set to I.
ftp> put index.html
local: index.html remote: index.html
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for index.html.
226 Transfer complete.
1453 bytes sent in 0.0433 secs (33 Kbytes/sec)
ftp> put backgnd.gif
local: backgnd.gif remote: backgnd.gif
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for backgnd.gif.
226 Transfer complete.
6616 bytes sent in 0.0529 secs (1.2e+02 Kbytes/sec)
ftp> quit
221 Goodbye.
unix-box:~/web$ 

By default, all user web pages are visible via the web. Initially there is a page in your web directory saying that you do not yet have a web page set up. If you delete this file, the server will look for index.html, then index.htm if the first one can't be found.

If for some reason you can't see the web pages you have put on the server, check the following...
1 - Your main page is called index.html or index.htm and in the www directory. This is case sensative, Index.html or INDEX.HTML will not be found...
2 - The file permissions have not been changed on your home directory. Type ls -la ~ and check that the following two lines are present in the listing...

drwx--x--x   3     users        2048 May 29 01:01 .
drwxr-xr-x   2     users        2048 May 25 16:28 www

^^^^^^^^^^ important bit

If the lines marked with the ^^^^^^^^^^'s are different, type the following command...

chmod 711 ~
chmod 755 ~/www


3 - The address you are typing is correct. Note that the address is all lower case!

http://www.laidback.org/~example/
http://www.laidback.org/~Example/
http://www.laidback.org/~EXAMPLE/

Are all different addresses!

4 - If you are still having prolems, email webmaster@laidback.org and someone will try to solve the problem...