Virtual Servers Operations Manual

1 WELCOME TO YOUR NEW 1D-ONLINE SERVER!
1.1 1d-online Servers - a Smart Choice
1.2 The Purpose of this Guide
1.4 How to Get Help

2 WHAT IS an 1d-online SERVER?
2.1 A Brief System Overview
2.2 The Difference Between virtual hosting and a Virtual Server
2.2 What an 1d-online Server Can Do
2.3 Accessing Your 1d-online Server's Services

3 A TOUR OF THE 1D-ONLINE SERVER SYSTEM
3.1 Terms To Become Familiar With
3.2 The Server Administrator
3.3 The Telnet Service
3.4 Connecting to Your 1d-online Server with Telnet
3.5 Logging In
3.6 The 1d-online Server File System
3.7 Your Home Directory
3.8 Basic UNIX Commands
3.9 Using The Basic UNIX Commands
     3.9.1 man
     3.9.2 pwd
     3.9.3 ls
     3.9.4 mkdir
     3.9.5 cd
     3.9.6 touch
     3.9.7 pico
     3.9.8 more
     3.9.9 cp
     3.9.10 mv
     3.9.11 rm
3.10 A Tour of Your 1d-online Server's Directories
     3.10.1 The etc Directory
     3.10.2 The ftp Directory
     3.10.3 The usr Directory
     3.10.4 The www Directory
     3.10.4.1 The log Directory
     3.10.4.2 The conf Directory

4 EMAIL SERVICES
4.1 Terms To Become Familiar With
4.2 New Commands Learned In This Chapter
4.3 How your 1d-online Server handles Email
4.4 Setting Up An Email Client
4.5 Using pine As Your Administrative Email Client
4.6 Email Aliasing
     4.6.1 Creating Email Aliases
     4.6.2 Creating Multiple Aliases and Destinations
4.7 Email Accounts
     4.7.1 Creating New Email Accounts
     4.7.2 Listing Email Accounts
     4.7.3 Editing Email Accounts
     4.7.4 Removing Email Accounts
     4.7.5 Changing Email Account Passwords
4.8 Virtual Email Mapping - Virtmaps
     4.8.1 Catch-All Virtmaps
4.9 Important Alias, Virtmap, and Email Account Hints
4.10 Autoreply
     4.10.1 Setting Up An Autoreply
     4.10.2 Avoiding "Autoreply War"
     4.10.3 Creating an "Information Only" Autoreply

5 FTP SERVICES
5.1 Terms To Become Familiar With
5.2 Three Types Of FTP Access
     5.2.1 Administrative FTP Access
     5.2.2 Multi-User Authenticated FTP Access
     5.2.3 Anonymous FTP Access
5.3 Using the FTP Client in a Telnet Session
5.4 Using An FTP Client
     5.4.1 Anonymous FTP with a Client
     5.4.2 Authenticated FTP with a Client
5.5 Changing Your Administrative FTP Password
5.6 Creating FTP User Accounts
5.7 Changing FTP User Passwords
5.8 Removing FTP Users
5.9 Anonymous FTP
     5.9.1 Allowing Anonymous FTP Uploads
     5.9.2 FTP Welcome Messages and Directory Messages
5.10 The FTP Activity Log
5.11 Generating FTP Statistics Reports
5.12 Receiving FTP Statistics Reports by Email

6 THE HTTP / WORLD WIDE WEB SERVICE
6.1 Terms To Know
6.2 Setting up your 1d-online Server's HTTP service
6.3 Accessing Your 1d-online Server Through HTTP
6.4 Creating Web Pages On Your 1d-online Server
6.5 Restricting Access To Files and Directories
     6.5.1 Basic Password Restriction
     6.5.2 Multiuser Password Restriction
6.6 Creating Custom Error Pages
6.7 Understanding Your 1d-online Server's HTTP Logs
     6.7.1 access_log
     6.7.2 agent_log
     6.7.3 referer_log
     6.7.4 error_log
6.8 Deleting Your 1d-online Server's Log Files
6.9 Combining Your 1d-online Server's Log Files
6.10 Analyzing Your 1d-online Server's HTTP Logs
     6.10.1 Using Analog

7 MAKING YOUR 1d-online Server'S HTTP SERVICE SECURE
7.1 Security Through Digital IDs
7.2 Using 1d-online Servers' Digital Certificate on your Virtual Server
7.3 Issuers of Digital ID's
     7.3.1 Ordering a Digital Certificate from VeriSign
     7.3.1.1 Certificate Generation Request
     7.3.1.2 Verification
     7.3.1.3 Authorization Letter To VeriSign
     7.3.1.4 Receiving Your Key Pairs
     7.3.2 Contacting VeriSign
7.4 Using SSL : The HTTPS Protocol

8 MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE 98
8.1 Installing the FrontPage Server Extensions
8.2 Obtaining the FrontPage Client Program
8.3 Publishing Your FrontPage Web
8.4 Managing Multiple Webs

9 DNS - DOMAIN NAME SERVICE
9.1 An Introduction to DNS and Name Servers
9.2 DNS Registration Records
9.3 DNS Tables
9.4 The Domain Registration Process

10 CGI - THE COMMON GATEWAY INTERFACE
10.1 Using CGI On Your 1d-online Server
10.2 An Introduction To Perl
10.3 The 1d-online Server C/C++ Compilers
10.4 Debugging Techniques for CGI programs

11 VIRTUAL HOSTING
11.1 How Virtual Hosting Works
11.2 Features and Limitations of Virtual Hosting
11.3 Setting Up Virtual Hosting
     11.3.1 Register the Domain Name
     11.3.2 Request the DNS Addition or Configure your vDNS servers
     11.3.3 Configuration and Operation of the vDNS service
     11.3.4 Configure the Virtual Host
11.4 What the vaddvhost Command Does
11.5 Virtual Hosting Hints
     11.5.1 Registering Domains for Virtual Hosts
     11.5.2 Restricting Virtual Host Disk Usage
     11.5.3 Canonical Domain Names with Virtual Hosts
     11.5.4 Virtual Hosting and Email/FTP Accounts

12 AUTOMATING TASKS WITH CRON
12.1 Examples of Cron
     12.1.1 Sending Daily FTP Statistics
     12.1.2 Sending Daily WWW Statistics
     12.1.3 Running Analog Nightly To Create Statistics Reports
12.2 Loading the Cronfile

13 UNDERSTANDING YOUR SERVER CONFIGURATION FILES
13.1 /www/conf/httpd.conf
13.2 /www/conf/srm.conf
13.3 /www/conf/access.conf
13.4 /www/conf/mime.types
13.5 /etc/sendmail.cf

14 REAL AUDIO / REAL VIDEO STREAMING

15 APPENDIX A: COMMON 1d-online Server COMMANDS
UNIX Commands
1d-online Server Tools
15.1 Web and FTP Site Content Policies
15.2 Email Usage Policies
15.3 Illegal Activities
15.4 Right To Refuse Service
15.5 1d-online Server User Agreement
15.6 Questions

APPENDIX B: INTERNIC'S DOMAIN REGISTRATION FORM