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Hosting Personal Web Pages on Your Web Server

You can host on your Web server personal Web pages for individuals who do not need their own domain names. This service is popular with educational institutions that host non-commercial personal pages of their students and staff.

These pages usually have web addresses like http://your-domain.com/~username, however, you can set up personal web pages with alternative web addresses like http://username@your-domain.com, if you like.

To accommodate a personal web page on your server, allocate a separate web space and set up an FTP account for publishing:

  1. On your Home page, click the Web Users icon.
  2. Click Preferences.
  3. If you wish to allow access to personal web pages by alternative web addresses like http://username@your-domain.com, select the Enable webuser@example.com access format check box.

    By default, personal web pages have addresses like http://your-domain.com/~username.

  4. If you wish to allow execution of scripts embedded in personal web pages, select the Allow the web users scripting check box.
  5. Click OK.

    The settings you have defined at the steps 3 and 4 are common for all personal web pages you might host on your web server. Therefore, you will not need to perform steps 3 and 4 next time you set up a web space for a personal web page.

  6. Click btn new user Add New Web User.
  7. Specify a user name and password that will be used for accessing the web space through FTP and publishing the web page.

    You can use only lowercase alphanumeric, hyphen and underscore symbols in user name. The user name should begin with an alphabet character. It cannot contain white spaces. The password cannot contain quotation marks, white space, user's login name, and should be between 5 and 14 characters in length.

  8. Specify the programming languages that should be supported for the Web page.

    For example, if the web page is written in PHP, select the PHP support check box.

  9. If you wish to limit the amount of disk space that can be occupied by the Web page content, type the desired value in megabytes into the Hard disk quota box.

    When the specified limit is exceeded, the Web page owner will not be able to add files to his or her web space.

  10. Click OK.

Now you can tell your user the FTP account credentials, so that he or she can publish their web page.

To change FTP password for a web page owner:

  1. On your Home page, click the Web Users icon.
  2. Click the user name you need.
  3. Type the new password into the New password and Confirm password boxes.
  4. Click OK.

To allocate more disk space to the web page owner:

  1. On your Home page, click the Web Users icon.
  2. Click the user name you need.
  3. Type the amount of disk space in megabytes into the Hard disk quota box.
  4. Click OK.

To remove a web page owner's account together with his or her web page:

  1. On your Home page, click the Web Users icon.
  2. Select a check box to the right of the user name you wish to remove and click Remove selected icon. Remove Selected.
  3. Confirm removal and click OK.