Topic: HELP end this crisis?????

[Chris Vaughn]

I'm following the faq, instructions as well as I can, but I can't seem to publish a web site to an i-bay.

What is the syntax? How is it done?

thanks,
Chris Vaughn

[Jason Miller]

Your best bet is the user manual, also downloadable from ftp.e-smith.com as opposed to the FAQ et. al.

As a brief summary,

1. create user, called 'joe' for now.
2. create group, called 'joe_grp' for now.
3. create ibay, called 'joe_ibay' with permissions for write given to the 'joe_grp', and set with proper website viewing permissions (i.e. if its an intranet site - local network no password - if its external - entire internet no password.
4. login to your client machine as joe with proper password.
5. use network browser (windows) to access the ibay, it'll show right off of the e-smith server

something like ...

\E-SMITH-SERVER\joe_ibay

with subdirectories

\cgi-bin
\html
\files

6. place your new .html files into the html directory, edit them and whatever else you need to do, making sure to have a new index.html

-> now viewable internally as
http://www.e-smith.yourdomain.com/joe_ibay

and externally as
http://www.yourdomain.com/joe_ibay

7. you can also setup a virtual domain if you've registered one that will automatically point to this ibay, create virtual domain, called 'joe_ibay.yourdomain.com' and make sure that it is pointing to the joe_ibay.

then when someone does http://www.joe_ibay.yourdomain.com from external it will also show up (provided you've published the records with your ISP that that url points to your e-smith server and gateway.


That's it in a nutshell, hope this helps.

[Garret]

Or,

If your you just have a static ip address you can create the ibay (you don't have to do all the user stuff if you publish it to the internet without password), and sign on with IP address /ibay to look like this http://209.44.848.44/ibay.

E-smith automatically makes an Index.html file for you so that you can at least see that your connecting.

Then just upload your html files to that ibays html directory.

E-smith networks and shares great with windows so if you have a windows machine you can do it all through network neighborhood or what ever they're calling it these days:o}