Quickness Web Server
On-Line Support:
On-Line Support is available via email to support@quickness.com, but before mailing us please check out out frequently asked questions. You will probably get an answer there.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What phone number do I dial?
- How do I set up my Windows 95 Dialer?
- What are my name servers?
Primary Name Server: 204.31.1.3
Secondary Name Server: 199.183.9.1
- How do I set up my OS/2 Warp 4 Dialer?
- What is my e-mail address?
Your basic email adress is your user name plus @quickness.com (ie johndoe@quickness.com)
- How do I set up Eudora Mail 3.x (Lite and Pro)??
- How do get files to and from my web space and/or delete or modify them?
The method of transferring files and removing files is via File Transer Protocol (FTP). You just connect your ftp client to ftp.quickness.com (using your user name and password), and you will gain access to your file directory.
- Where can I get an FTP client?
A good place to look for all Internet related software would be Tucows. They have a large selection of software utilities for Windows, Mac, and OS/2. If you are running Unix, an FTP client should be available right in your operating system by typing FTP at a command prompt. We highly recommend:
- Where do I put my files so that they can be viewed on the World Wide Web?
The directory your ftp logs into is called html. This is your root directory for your files that you wish to be viewed on the web. All uploaded files should be in that directory, or sub-directories of that directory, which you may create with your FTP Client.
- Why is there a bin directory, and another directory which is the parent directory to my html directory?
These directories are system directories, which hold information about your account so that our server can recognize you. They don't count to your total webspace which you purchased.
- What is my URL?
If you have registred a domain name then your URL would be www.yourdomainname, otherwise your URL would be www.quickness.com/~yourusername.
- How do I create sub directories?
- Why can't I upload to sub-directories?
Check the file permissions to make sure you have granted access to these directories.
- What is the path to my files?
Your path is /home/yourusername/html, thus a file in your html directory called any.txt would be accessed by /home/yourusername/html/any.txt in a script.
- How do change permissions for files and/or directories on the Quickness Server?
The best way to accomplish this is with your FTP Client. Usually they have an option so that you can change file permissions on servers. Make sure the client you select has this feature. Some which do are:
- What is HTML?
Hyper-Text Markup Language is the proper term for HTML, and it is the language of home pages. If you want a good looking website you best be learning HTML.
- How do I get the Server-Side Includes to work?
In order to take advantage of Server-Side Includes you must use the file extension .shtml which will tell the server to parse the HTML.
- Where can I get help with HTML?
You can always get a book on HTML as there are many, but since this is the information super-highway, and also the world wide web, click
here for one website related to HTML and other internet information. You can also do a search for information with one of the many Internet search engines.
- What is PERL?
Perl's author, Larry Wall, describes Perl this way:
Perl is an interpreted language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information. It's also a good language for many system management tasks. The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal). It combines (in the author's opinion, anyway) some of the best features of C, sed, awk, and sh, so people familiar with those languages should have little difficulty with it. (Language historians will also note some vestiges of csh, Pascal, and even BASIC-PLUS.) Expression syntax corresponds quite closely to C expression syntax. Unlike most Unix utilities, Perl does not arbitrarily limit the size of your data--if you've got the memory, Perl can slurp in your whole file as a single string. Recursion is of unlimited depth. And the hash tables used by associative arrays grow as necessary to prevent degraded performance. Perl uses sophisticated pattern matching techniques to scan large amounts of data very quickly. Although optimized for scanning text, Perl can also deal with binary data, and can make dbm files look like associative arrays (where dbm is available). Setuid Perl scripts are safer than C programs through a dataflow tracing mechanism which prevents many stupid security holes. If you have a problem that would ordinarily use sed or awk or sh, but it exceeds their capabilities or must run a little faster, and you don't want to write the silly thing in C, then Perl may be for you. There are also translators to turn your sed and awk scripts into Perl scripts.
What do we say:
Perl is a great way to create interactive Internet websites. Once you've learned it, you can really get your interactive sites working nicely.
- Where can I get help with PERL?
Click here for an on-line PERL manual. Of course you can get books and find other websites.
- Where is PERL on the Quickness Server?
PERL is located at /usr/bin/perl so the first line of any PERL script should be #!/usr/bin/perl and nothing else.
- What version of PERL is on the Quickness Server?
The Quickness Web Server runs PERL Version 5.
- How do I get my PERL scripts to the Quickness Server?
This is done via your FTP Client, but make sure you transfer the files in ASCII mode and not in binary mode.
- Why am I told I am forbidden to run the PERL script?
Normally this happens if you don't set your file permissions to 755 which allows the script to be executable.
- How do I chmod/set file permissions for my PERL scripts/files?
- Why do I keep getting Error 500's when I run my PERL Script?
The most probable causes of this are syntax errors with in your script, and/or the fact that you did not xet your FTP Client to ASCII mode when you uploaded the scripts.
- What are common syntax errors in PERL scripts?
Common syntax errors in PERL Version 5 include:
- Forgetting to end lines with a semi-colon
- Not escaping (putting a bacslash before) an '@' sign in an email address
- Not matching parenthesis
- Not matching brackets
- Why can't my script modify a file?
The most common problem for this is the file and/or directory in which the file is located not having the correct file permissions set so that they can be modified by the script.
- Where can I find Sendmail on the Quickness Server?
Sendmail is loacted at /usr/sbin/sendmail
- How can I test/debug PERL scripts?
In order to keep the speed of our servers as fast as is possible, we have not included any PERL debugging software. We recommend that you download the PERL version for your particular operation system, and check your syntax via typeing perl -c followed by your script name. It will perform a syntax check just as we could on this werver. There is a version of PERL available for DOS/Windows 3.1, Windows 32 bit(NT and 95), Mac, OS/2 and Unix. For all purposes you can set up a web server on your local machine and run your scripts before uploading them.
- Where on the web can I find pre-written PERL scripts?
Here are some popular sites:
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