Personal Webserver at USFamily.Net

Personal Webserver Setup

To  setup your personal webserver online just click here.  Read below for upload info and features.  A  personal website is free with and standard, premium, or DSL account. Click here to upgrade from a regular account..

.Business Website Setup

To request setup of a business domain,   webserver and mailserver give us a call at 763-521-0401 (or preferably send us an email with the info below to info@usfamily.net - so we don't misspell anything!).  To check if your desired domain name is still available click here   Read below for upload info.  Frontpage extensions are now available upon request for business websites.

a domain name is $35/yr - passed on to the InterNic.
we do domain name registration and support for free.
a website and a mail server is $25/mo. ($20 webserver + $5 mailserver, most people want both but it
isn't required, you can continue to use a usfamily.net or another email server)

The following info is needed for your domain name registration.

Name of domain:
Legal name of owning entity:
Address:
City, State:
Zip:

Optional
Organization:
Phone Number:
Fax Number:
E-Mail:

You can check availability of a name at: http://www.usfamily.net/checkdomain.html

To Order:
Send your request to info@usfamily.net
and ask for registration, a webserver, and a mailserver as needed.

Uploading your webpage

• Use ftp protocol. Most web publishers support this. (The export in MS Frontpage does not seem to work for most people so please use something like wsftp covered below.) (Frontpage upload works fine to business websites that request Frontpage extensions).
• We provide you the username and password.
• The ftp address is www.usfamily.net
• DO NOT specify a directory to export into. Export directly into the root or main directory.  You username and password will position you to the right directory automatically
• Your main page must be named index.html or index.shtml
• Be sure to press reload on your browser when reviewing new updates.

WSFTP shareware program

• A popular shareware ftp upload program available on the Internet is WSFTP.
• Click here to download WSFTP.
• Save it to your desktop.
• Once you have downloaded it, click on it to install, then delete the download file off your desktop.

• To upload your website:

• make up a profile name
• enter host name of usfamily.net for a personal website or your domain name if you have a domain.
• host type = Automatic detect
• enter your userid
• enter you password
• click ok.
• use the graphical interface to move files to your website.

Fetch: Internet File Transfer Software for Macintosh

Any FTP program should work fo uploading and many Mac users use "Fetch".   Here is a helpful link.

http://wally2.rit.edu/instruction/software/ftp/fetch.html

Available CGI Info

The following cgi is for unix hosted domains only.   (Personal websites are unix hosted)

If your webserver is NT hosted refer to Microsoft frontpage extensions documentation.

Counter

To add a counter to a page the name of the page must end with .shtml instead of .html. (i.e. index.shtml instead of index.html.) This notifies the web server to look for cgi commands in the web page.

Basic Text Counter

Add this command line in your html text wherever you want the text counter to display. Get this to work before trying anything harder!

<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/counter.cgi" -->

example display: [an error occurred while processing this directive] Reload to see it change.

Basic Image Counter

Add this command line in your html text wherever you want the image counter to display.

<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/counter.cgi?&i" -->

example display: [an error occurred while processing this directive] Reload to see it change.

You must have these or other images with the names 0.gif,1.gif through 9,gif in your web directory.

Advanced options

There are 3 parameters passable to the counter:  the format is ?parameter1&parameter2&parameter3 . Some examples follow.

Invisible Counter

Add this command line in your html text wherever you want the image counter to be counting but not display. You will then display the counter on another page only you look at.

<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/counter.cgi?i&i" --> image version

<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/counter.cgi?i&" --> character version

Display of Invisible Counter

Add this command line in your html text wherever you want the image counter to display the count kept by an invisible counter on another page.

<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/counter.cgi?d&i" --> image version

<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/counter.cgi?d&" --> character version

example display of counter above. [an error occurred while processing this directive] Notice the count didn't change.

Multiple Counters

The count is stored in counter.txt in your web directory. You may have multiple counters by specifying a different counter name in parameter 3.

<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/counter.cgi?d&i&p17" --> image version example of display only of counter named "p17".

Input Form

This is a sample input form, the contents of which are emailed back to you.  The hidden field

<input type="hidden" name="mailto" value="info@usfamily.Net">

controls where the email is to be returned to. 
For security reasons you must email info@usfamily.net a request to have this email address be added to our trusted address list.

You may optionally specify an email subject.

<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="Test Inquiry">

You may optionally specify a return page in the return field.

<input type="hidden" name="return" value="/contacts.html">

You may specify a page to go to immediately after submit is pressed.

<input type="hidden" name="exit" value="/contacts.html">

The other key element in the form is the cgi call in the form header.

<form action="http://www.usfamily.net/cgi-bin/emailform.cgi" method="POST">

You may have the fields in the email you receive sorted into an order of you choice by specifing a field called "sort" with a "value" of the fields in your desired order. This example would return 5 fields in the order listed.

<input type="hidden" name="sort" value="name,address1,address2,state,zip">

Everything else is up to your design. Every field you define will be returned in the email in alphabetical order. View this page source for the example

Contact Us - Inquiry Form
     Your Name
     
     Title     
     
     Company   
     
     Address  
     
     Address   
     
     City      
     
      State     
     
      Zip
         
     Country  
     

     Telephone (include area code):
     
     Fax (include area code): 
     

     Email:
        

          
     Please contact me by: 
      Email  Telephone, Voice  FAX  Snail Mail 

     How did you hear about us? 
     

     Comments:  
     

       

Matt's GGI Formmail.cgi

We now have "formmail" <form action="http://www.usfamily.net/cgi-bin/form_mail.cgi" method="POST">

from Matt;s CGI Script Archive available for knowledgealbe advanced users. http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/formmail.shtml

For security reasons you must email info@usfamily.net a request to have any return email address be added to our trusted address list.

Support

Support is not included. We will assist you with your design at our normal hourly business rates. Thanks.

Beginners Ebay Instructions

1. scan an image
2. make a web page (i.e. mypage.html) and insert the image on the page (microsoft frontpage works well or netscape composer)
3. upload the webpage and the image to your website using wsftp.
- find the files on the left "local" side of wsftp and send them to the right "remote" side.
4. go to your website
5. add "/mypage.html" to the end of the address  i.e. http://www.usfamily.net/web/mywebsite/mypage.html   and press enter.
6. you should see your page and picture
7. right click on the image
8. click properties or view image
9. you should see the entire URL (address) of the image as needed by Ebay.