ook, I spy changes
Denis McMahon
I have a site that I maintain on homepages, but I haven't actually
touched it for a while, however my customer (actually a relative) has
recently asked me to make some changes.
Of vcourse, I'd lost her password in the mists of time, so had to ask
her what it was.
First thing I noticed having translated the email I got into a
bruteforce and found the right password (the email said "I can't
remember which letters are upper case, but some are") is that the
directory structure seems to have changed somewhat since the good (bad?)
old days.
I have:
/docroot (seems to contain the original website)
/docroot.old (seems to contain a default website)
/errpages
/logs
/secure
/stats
/stats_secure
no cgi directory?
I assume that I upload the website into /docroot
Can I set up custom error pages in errpages?
Denis
Andy
<denis....@ntlworld.com> wrote
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>/docroot.old (seems to contain a default website)
You can safely delete all that's in here. It serves no useful purpose,
and counts towards your size allocation.
[
>no cgi directory?
As I recall, no - the only cgi that you can use are the 3 or 4
Demon-provided ones. However I can't get into my homepages to verify my
recollection :(
>
>I assume that I upload the website into /docroot
Yes
>
>Can I set up custom error pages in errpages?
>
I believe that you can. 'How' is another matter :)
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Denis McMahon
> In message <GO5Hk.6229$933....@newsfe25.ams2>, Denis McMahon
> <denis....@ntlworld.com> wrote
>> /docroot.old (seems to contain a default website)
>
> You can safely delete all that's in here. It serves no useful purpose,
> and counts towards your size allocation.
Thanks
>> no cgi directory?
>
> As I recall, no - the only cgi that you can use are the 3 or 4
> Demon-provided ones. However I can't get into my homepages to verify my
> recollection :(
Ah, my recollection of the old homepages is that there was a symbolic
link /cgi or /cgi-bin directory that was read only and pointed to the
scripts, something like that anyway, might have been a cgi dir with
symbolic links to the scripts inside it.
>> Can I set up custom error pages in errpages?
>>
> I believe that you can. 'How' is another matter :)
I'd guess by editing the files in there, or replacing them, they seem to
be named <errnum>.htm
Denis
Andy
<denis.m....@googlemail.com> wrote
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>
>Ah, my recollection of the old homepages is that there was a symbolic
>link /cgi or /cgi-bin directory that was read only and pointed to the
>scripts, something like that anyway, might have been a cgi dir with
>symbolic links to the scripts inside it.
I'm currently using code like
{FORM ACTION="/cgi-bin/mailform" METHOD="GET"}
{INPUT TYPE="Hidden" NAME="formtype" VALUE="DUMMY2"}
{/FORM}
(I've replaced pointy brackets with curlies)
which works OK; I don't have my own cgi-bin.
Dr J R Stockton
, Wed, 8 Oct 2008 18:08:54, Denis McMahon <denis....@ntlworld.com>
posted:
>I have a site that I maintain on homepages,
>I assume that I upload the website into /docroot
Yes.
>Can I set up custom error pages in errpages?
Yes - try <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/no.htm>. Note that the
ones supplied are (or were) bloated; and they presumably count in your
GB/month.
See <http://www.demon.net/helpdesk/products/homepages/> and its "2007"
link, much of the contents of which is right, once stripped of PR-speak.
I uploaded a new 404.html yesterday, in the obvious manner.
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