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Unix Virtual Server Administrator's Guide
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Chapter 1 Preface
1.1 About This Guide
1.2 Chapter Organization
1.3 Conventions Used in This Guide
1.4 Entering Commands
1.5 How to Get Help
1.6 Documentation Update Service
1.7 Comments and Questions
Chapter 2 Introduction
2.1 Not Just Another Web Hosting Solution
2.1.1 YOU Control Your Internet Services
2.1.2 Spreading the Cost
2.2 Virtual Server Product Comparison
2.3 Accessing Your Virtual Servers Services
2.4 Getting Started
Chapter 3 The Telnet / Secure Shell (SSH) Service
3.1 Connecting to Your Virtual Server with Telnet
3.2 Connecting to Your Virtual Server with SSH
3.3 Logging In
3.4 Teleport A Workaround for Connection Errors
Chapter 4 A Tour of the Virtual Server System
4.1 The Virtual Server File System
4.2 Your Home Directory
4.3 Introduction to UNIX
4.3.1 UNIX Commands Introduced in this chapter
4.3.2 Entering UNIX Commands
4.3.3 Learning More About UNIX Commands
4.3.4 Basic Unix Tutorial
4.4 A Tour of Your Virtual Servers Directories
4.4.1 Getting to Your Home Directory
4.4.2 Other Directories
4.5 Navigating the Virtual Server File Structure with Pilot
4.5.1 Starting Pilot Automatically at Login
Chapter 5 Email Services
5.1 How Your Virtual Server Handles Email
5.1.1 Sending Mail
5.1.2 Receiving Mail
5.2 Setting Up an Email Client
5.2.1 Using POP on Your Virtual Server
5.2.2 Using IMAP on Your Virtual Server
5.2.3 Using Pine as Your Administrative Email Client
5.3 Email Accounts
5.3.1 Creating Email Accounts
5.3.2 Managing Email Accounts
5.4 Email Aliasing (Forwarding)
5.4.1 Creating Email Aliases
5.4.2 Creating Multiple Aliases and Destinations
5.4.3 Creating Aliases for Virtual Users
5.5 Virtual Email Mapping Virtmaps
5.5.1 Creating a Virtmap
5.5.2 The virtmaps File
5.6 Using a Catchall
5.7 Auto-Responders
5.7.1 Setting Up an Auto-Responder
5.7.2 Avoiding "Autoreply War"
5.7.3 Creating an Information Only Auto-Responder
5.8 Spam Protection
5.8.1 Blocking Unwanted Email
5.8.2 Preventing Spam Relay
5.9 Sending / Receiving Attachments via the Command Line
5.9.1 Sending Attachments
5.9.2 Receiving Attachments
5.10 Quick Command Reference
Chapter 6 Managing Mailing Lists
6.1 The Include Method
6.2 Majordomo
6.2.1 Installing Majordomo
6.2.2 Adding a New List
6.2.3 Basic Configuration and Use
6.2.4 Advanced Configuration
6.2.5 Creating a Password-Protected List
6.2.6 Sending Messages to a Mailing List
Chapter 7 FTP Services
7.1 Three Types of FTP Access
7.1.1 Administrative FTP Access
7.1.2 User Authenticated FTP Access
7.1.3 Anonymous FTP Access
7.2 Using Command Line FTP
7.3 Using an FTP Client
7.3.1 Anonymous FTP with a Client
7.3.2 Authenticated FTP with a Client
7.4 Changing Your Administrative FTP Password
7.5 FTP User Accounts
7.5.1 Creating FTP User Accounts
7.5.2 Editing FTP User Accounts
7.5.3 Changing FTP User Passwords
7.5.4 Removing FTP Users
7.6 Anonymous FTP
7.6.1 Allowing Anonymous FTP Uploads
7.6.2 FTP Welcome Messages and Directory Messages
7.7 The FTP Activity Log
7.8 Generating FTP Statistics Reports
7.9 Receiving FTP Statistics Reports via Email
Chapter 8 Virtual IRC Service
8.1 Installing and Configuring the Virtual IRC Service
8.2 Connecting to Your IRC Service
8.2.1 mIRC: An IRC Client Program
8.3 IRC Frequently Asked Questions
Chapter 9 The HTTP / World Wide Web Service
9.1 Setting Up Your Virtual Servers HTTP Service
9.2 Accessing Your Virtual Server through HTTP
9.3 Web Publishing on Your Virtual Server
9.4 Creating Web Pages on Your Virtual Server
9.5 Restricting Access to Files and Directories
9.5.1 Basic Password Restriction
9.5.2 Multiuser Password Restriction
9.6 Creating Custom Error Pages
9.7 Understanding Your Virtual Servers Web Service Log Files
9.7.1 access_log
9.7.2 agent_log
9.7.3 referer_log
9.7.4 error_log
9.8 Analyzing Your Virtual Servers Web Service Log Files
9.8.1 Using the analog Command
9.8.2 WebTrends 3.5
9.8.3 Virtual WebTrends
9.9 Deleting Your Virtual Servers Log Files
9.10 Combining Your Virtual Servers Log Files
Chapter 10 Making Your Virtual Server`s HTTP Service Secure
10.1 What is a Digital Certificate?
10.2 Using WebSite Works' Digital Certificate
10.3 Obtaining Your Own Digital Certificate
10.3.1 VeriSign
10.3.2 Thawte
10.4 Renewing Your Digital Certificate
10.5 SSL–Secure Socket Layer
10.6 Frequently Asked Questions About SSL
Chapter 11 Microsoft® FrontPage® 98
11.1 Installing the FrontPage® Server Extensions
11.2 Obtaining the FrontPage® 98 Client Program
11.3 Publishing Your FrontPage® Web
11.4 Managing Subwebs (Child Webs)
11.5 FrontPage 98 Limitations
Chapter 12 HTML Pre-Processing Engines
12.1 PHP : Hypertext Pre-Processor
12.1.1 Configuring PHP
12.1.2 Using PHP For CGI Programs
12.1.3 Using PHP as a Database Interface
12.2 Miva Empresa
12.2.1 Miva Mia - Miva on Your Windows PC
12.2.2 Miva Merchant: A Miva-Powered Shopping Cart
Chapter 13 DNS - Domain Name Service
13.1 An Introduction to DNS and Name Servers
13.1.1 DNS Registration Records
13.1.2 DNS Tables
13.2 The Domain Registration Process
13.2.1 Checking the Availability of a Domain Name
13.2.2 Registering a New Domain Name
13.2.3 Transferring a Domain Name
13.2.4 Deleting a Domain Name
13.3 International Domain Registries
Chapter 14 CGI - The Common Gateway Interface
14.1 Using CGI on Your Virtual Server
14.2 Running CGI From Other Directories
14.3 An Introduction to Perl
14.4 The Virtual Server C/C++ Compilers
14.5 PHP as a CGI Environment
14.6 Debugging Techniques for CGI programs
Chapter 15 WebSite Works Software Library
15.1 vinstall - The Virtual Package Manager
15.2 Available CGI Programs
Chapter 16 Using Databases on Your Virtual Server
16.1 Database Basics
16.2 mSQL Database Engine
16.3 MySQL: Lightweight Database Engine for Web Servers
16.3.1 Installing MySQL
16.4 MySQL Tutorial
16.4.1 Creating MySQL Databases
16.4.2 Showing Database Relationships
16.4.3 Creating MySQL Tables
16.4.4 Adding Records To Database Tables
16.4.5 Extracting Information from Database Tables
16.4.6 Modifying Table Records
16.4.7 Deleting Table Records
16.4.8 Deleting ("Dropping") Databases
16.5 Web Interfaces for MySQL
16.5.1 PHP Interface for MySQL
Chapter 17 Virtual Hosting
17.1 Virtual Hosting Limitations
17.2 Setting Up Virtual Hosting
17.2.1 The vaddvhost Command
17.2.2 Virtual Host Entries
17.3 Registering Domains for Virtual Hosts
17.4 Restricting Virtual Host Disk Usage
17.5 Canonical Domain Names as Virtual Hosts
17.6 Virtual Hosting and Email/FTP Accounts
17.7 Removing a Virtual Host
Chapter 18 Internet Commerce
18.1 Setting Up an Internet Merchant Account
18.1.1 Signio Internet Transaction Processing Service
18.2 Shopping Cart Programs
18.2.1 ShopSite
18.2.2 Miva Merchant
Chapter 19 VAdmin - The Virtual Administration Suite
19.1 Installing and Connecting to VAdmin
19.2 Server Status
19.2.1 Checking Your Server Status
19.2.2 Checking your Active Server Processes
19.3 User Manager
19.4 Event Manager
19.5 Email Manager
19.5.1 Adding an Alias
19.5.2 Creating a Catch-All Alias
19.5.3 Managing Mailing Lists
19.6 Software Manager
19.7 File Manager
19.7.1 Uploading Files
Chapter 20 Real Media Streaming
20.1 Methods For Streaming Real Media Files
20.1.1 Streaming Real Media through HTTP
20.1.2 Streaming Real Media with RealAudio Basic Server
Chapter 21 WebSite Works' NetVoice Service
21.1 Signing Up for WebSite Works' NetVoice Service
21.2 Recording a Message
21.3 Changing the Account Access PIN
21.4 Linking/Listening to a Message via the Internet
Chapter 22 Windows File Sharing (SAMBA)
Chapter 23 Advanced Virtual Server Administration
23.1 Virtual Server Start-up Files
23.2 Changing Your Virtual Server`s Time Zone
23.3 Automating Tasks with Cron
23.3.1 Loading the Cronfile
23.3.2 Sending Daily FTP Statistics
23.4 Understanding Your Web Server Configuration Files
23.4.1 httpd.conf
23.4.2 srm.conf
23.4.3 access.conf
23.4.4 mime.types
23.5 Maximizing Web Server Performance
23.5.1 Reducing File System Lookups
23.5.2 DNS Lookup
23.5.3 Parsed File Types
23.5.4 Invalid Virtual Host Names
23.5.5 Limit the Number of Virtual Hosts
Chapter 24 Glossary of Terms
Chapter 25 Appendix A: WebSite Works Usage Policies

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