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| This
FAQ helps you to find the solution to most common problems
faced in Linux Servers. |
| PLEASE
NOTE : These FAQS are sepcific to Worldindia.com 's
servers only, the procedures may be different for other
companies. |
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| How
do i setup my email accounts in my outlook or any other
email program? |
Setting
up an email account in your computer needs following details.
Incoming mail server name, Outgoing mail server name,
username and password.
Steps to configure email in Outlook express (other email
programs may have different options)
- Start outlook express from Start , run Programs
- Go to Tools --> Accounts --> Select Mail Tab
--> Add mail
- Enter the display name, click next
- Enter the full email address, click next
- In Incoming mail server provide the details (which
have been sent to you by our support team) for
e.g mail.mywebsite.com
or IP Address
- In Outgoing mail server provide the details (which
have been sent to you by our support team),
click next
for e.g mail.mywebsite.com or IP Address
- Enter the username and password for your email account
as given by our support team
- Click Next--> Click Finish |
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| How
do i check my mails from a browser ? |
|
TO
check your mails from the browser you simply have to follow
this step.
for e.g your website name is http://webmail.abc.com so
to check your mails the url would be
http://webmail.abc.com (Please note: Giving http:// is
compulsory ) |
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| How
do i change my email password ? |
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For
the password to be changed you have to log in to your
account from browser
e.g http://mywebsite.com:8443 , login with username
and password and Click on Mail
Button, you will find list of popids click on the required
popids link and
change the password. |
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| Why
i am getting a 'relaying denied' error message when i
send a mail ? |
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| You
do not have the outgoing service enabled. The outgoing
service is enabled by default on our servers if the webspace
taken is equal to or more than 25 MB. IF you would like
to enable it please contact our support team. |
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| Why
i am not able to send or recieve messages even when my
settings are Correct? |
|
You
have either exceeded your mailbox limit or your mailbox
is full. Please empty the mailbox and try again. If
you still face problems contact us at support2@worldindia.com |
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| Why
my outgoing messages bounce back to me ? |
|
The
reason could be the recepient's mailbox is full or the
recepient's server is not responding. Or the email address
is invalid. |
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| Why
do i encounter "please check your username and the
password." message ? |
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The
reason could be that the emailid is locked temporarily
on the server for a particular interval of time and
gets unlocked automatically or you might have keyed
in wrong username and password.If still the problem
exists contact us at support2@worldindia.com. |
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| Is
Index.aspx a different file from Index.aspx? |
| Yes,
unlike Windows or DOS, UNIX is case sensitive. This means
that Index.aspx is different from Index.aspx, Index.aspx
and all its various case combinations.
This
creates a problem when transferring your site from your
hard drive (Windows or DOS) to one of our UNIX servers.
It can often result in pages having broken links and
missing images.
If
you encounter this problem, check to make sure that
your hyperlinks in your web pages correspond to the
exact filenames on your website. If they do not match,
you can either modify your hyperlinks in your web pages
or rename your files with an FTP program so they match
your hyperlinks.
Also
note that your user name, password and all UNIX commands
are case sensitive. |
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| How
do get online help for a UNIX command? |
| The man command, short for manual, displays
online help for a particular UNIX command.
Type man ls at the command prompt to
get information on the Ls command. |
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| How
do I list my files & directories? |
| The
Ls command lists the files and subdirectories of the current
directory. This is equivalent to the dir command in DOS.
Ls
-a will show all hidden files such as .htaccess
Ls -l will show detailed information
including permissions, owners, size and file modification
time. |
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| How
do I change directories? |
| The
cd command will change to another directory. This is equivalent
to the CD, chdir in DOS.
Once
you login to your account with telnet, type CD HTML
to change to your HTML directory.
Type CD to return to your home directory ( /home/your_user_name
)
Type CD .. to change to the directory just above the
current one. |
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| How
do I make directories? |
| The
mkdir command makes a new directory. This is equivalent
to the md, mkdir commands in DOS.
At
a telnet prompt, type mkdir test to create a new directory
called test. |
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| How
do I remove directories? |
| The
rmdir command will remove an empty directory. This is
equivalent to the rd, rmdir commands in DOS.
At
a telnet prompt, type rmdir test to remove a directory
called test. |
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| How
do I copy files & directories? |
| The
cp command copies a file to a new directory or filename.
This is equivalent to the copy command in DOS.
Typing cp welcome.htm Index.aspx at the
telnet prompt will copy the welcome.htm file to the
Index.aspx file.
Typing cp welcome.htm HTML/Index.aspx at the telnet prompt will copy welcome.htm to the Index.aspx
located in the HTML directory.
Typing cp * /home/your_user_name/HTML at the telnet prompt will copy all the files in the
current directory to your HTML directory |
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| How
do I move (rename) files? |
| The
mv command moves a file to a new location or renames it.
This is equivalent to the move, ren, rename commands in
DOS.
Typing MV * /home/your_user_name/HTML at the telnet prompt will move all the files in the
current directory to your HTML directory
Typing MV welcome.htm Index.aspx at the telnet prompt will rename the welcome.htm file
to the Index.aspx file.
Typing MV welcome.htm HTML/Index.aspx at the telnet prompt will rename welcome.htm to Index.aspx
located in the HTML directory. |
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| How
do I remove files? |
The
rm command removes (deletes) a file.
Please be careful removing files; there is no un-remove
command!
This is equivalent to the del command in DOS.
Typing
rm test.htm at the telnet prompt will remove the test.htm
file |
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| How
do I search within files? |
The
grep command finds lines in files that match specified
text patterns.
The syntax is as follows grep text filename
Typing grep welcome Index.aspx at the
telnet prompt will find any lines in the Index.aspx
containing the text welcome in them.
Typing grep hello * at the telnet
prompt will find any files in the current directory
that contain the text hello in them. |
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| How
do I change file and directory permissions? |
| The
chmod command sets the permissions of a file or directory.
There are 3 sets of permissions for files and directories:
owner, group and other which are controlled by read, write
and execute permissions. This is equivalent to the attrib
command in DOS.
Type
chmod 755 *.cgi to make your cgi
scripts executable.
Type chmod 755 cgi to set the
permissions on your CGI directory. |
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| How
do I back up & restore files & directories? |
| The
tar command is an archiving utility for packing many files
into a single archive file while retaining file permissions
and ownership.
Type tar cvf backup1.tar HTML in your
home directory to archive the contents of your HTML
directory into backup1.tar
Type tar xvf backup1.tar in your
home directory to restore (replace) the contents of
your HTML directory from backup1.tar |
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| How
do I compress & uncompress files & directories? |
| The
tar command can be used with gzip to compress many files
into a single archive while retaining file permissions
and ownership. Please note that these files can be decompressed
with WinZIP.
Type
tar czvf backup2.tgz HTML in your home directory to
compress the contents of your HTML directory into backup2.tgz
Type tar xzvf backup2.tgz in your home directory to
restore (replace) the contents of your HTML directory
from backup2.tgz |
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| How
do I change my Password? |
| Please
note that your password is case sensitive, check to make
sure your Caps Lock key is not set!
To
change your UNIX and FrontPage password:
Telnet
to ur domain
Type in your Domain name & Password.
Type Passwd, and when prompted to change the password
type u new password.
Changing
your UNIX password affects your FTP, Telnet, and User
Services access.
We
advise using the User Services method. This way, both
your FrontPage and Unix passwords remain will be the
same as well as easier to remember. |
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| How
to enable Hit Counter on your website? |
| 1) |
Click
Here to download the Perl Script
File i.e. gcount.pl
Once you download the files, the first and the foremost
thing you need to do is to put an entry by opening
the gcount.pl file and look for $images variable
in the gcount.pl file.
For
example if your domain name is abc.com then the
entries will be
$images="http://www.abc.com/images/";
save the file and upload it in cgi-bin folder. |
| 2) |
You also need to download record.txt, count.txt files
Please upload the files viz gcount.pl,record.txt,count.txt
in the cgi-bin folder using your domain FTP Details
through FTP Clients viz cuteFTP,WS_FTP etc
change the permission of the gcount.pl
to 755 and the permission of the record.txt
and count.txt to 777 by right clicking on the
file and look for CHMOD. |
| 3) |
You also need to download the images(i.e. 0.gif,
1.gif etc) by clicking
here.
After that upload all the images file (i.e. 1.gif,
2.gif etc ) in the images folder of your site. |
| 4) |
You also need to edit your default home
page i.e. Index.aspx or index.htm and
set the below tag in the source code of
the index file as per your needs.
<div align="center">
You are Visitor No:
<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/gcount.pl"-->
</div>
save the file and upload it. |
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| How
to configure Feedback Form / Order Form with the FormMail.pl
script for sending form value to a particular email id. |
| 1) |
Click
Here to download the FormMail Script
File i.e. FormMail.pl
Once you download the files, the first thing you
need to do is to put an entry by opening the FormMail.pl file and look for @referers variable in
the FormMail.pl file.
For example if your domain name is www.abc.com
then you need to provide the below entries
@referers = ('abc.com','www.abc.com','66.33.10.26');
The IP which has been
given here is a random number. You
need to give the actual IP of the your domain.
To find out IP address of your domain click on
Start button on your PC which runs windows 95,
98, 2000 or XP go to Run option and type ping
www.abc.com and look for the IP Address. and
provide the same IP. |
| 2) |
Look
for @recipients variable in the FormMail.pl
file
For example if your domain name is www.abc.com
and email id is xyz@abc.com then you need to provide
below entries
@recipients = ('^xyz@abc.com');
All the information submited in the feedback form
will be go to this email id.
save the file and upload it in the cgi-bin folder.
Change the permission of the FormMail.pl
to 755 by right clicking on the file and look
for CHMOD. |
| 3) |
You
also need to edit your feedback form page
i.e. feedback.html or feedback.htm and set the
below tag in the source code of
the feedback form as per your needs.
<form name="form1" method="post"
action="http://www.abc.com/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl">
<input type="hidden" name="redirect"
value="http://www.abc.com/redirect.html">
<input type="hidden" name="recipient"
value="xyz@abc.com">
</form>
save the file and upload it. |
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