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Activating your Personal Web space

NOTE: This page describes the features of the Info Avenue Web server for personal Web pages. For details about our commercial Web services, please visit www.webtelpro.com.

To activate your personal Web space, you will need to log directly into the Info Avenue host system using a "Telnet" application. The simplest way to accomplish this, using the software distributed by Info Avenue or your Internet Service Provider, is to select the Telnet application, which has already been configured for our host system.

Alternatively, a Telnet application is available in Windows by selecting "Run" from the "Start" menu and typing "Telnet." If you are using this or any other Telnet application, the server you need to connect to is services.infoave.net.

After connecting to services.infoave.net, you will see the Info Avenue Enhanced Terminal Services Main Menu, illustrated here.

Terminal Services main menu

This menu is the primary interface for users connecting directly to our host system (including those users without a TCP/IP account).

 

Note: If this is the first time you have logged onto the Info Avenue host system via Telnet, you will first see our Terms and Conditions document. You may read through this document using your arrow keys, or exit it by pressing X. At that point, you will then enter the Terminal Services menu shown above. After your first Telnet session, you will no longer be presented with the Terms and Conditions page, but will go directly to the Terminal Services menu.

From this Main Menu, select the TOOLS option. (Options are selected either by moving the arrow in the left column up and down using the arrow keys on your keyboard, or simply by typing in the option word -- such as TOOLS. In either case, press the Enter key to invoke the option.) From the subsequent screen (see below), select the WWWDIR option. You will be prompted for a Personal name, which will be used as a header on the template document that is created in your new WWW directory (see below). The creation process will display a series of brief system messages regarding the creation of the new directory, and then return you to the menu. At this point, you may exit from the Info Avenue Enhanced Terminal Services Menu and terminate your Telnet session.

Terminal Services TOOLS menu

Testing the creation of your WWW directory:
When the above procedure creates your WWW directory, it also places a single HTML file into that directory. This file can be used as a template for your home page, or simply to test that the directory got created successfully.

To test your directory using this template file, start your browser and point it to http://web.InfoAve.Net/~username, where username should be replaced with your actual login account name. (Don't forget the tilde character [~] before the username, and note that the address starts with web, not www.) Your template file should appear; this completes the testing of your Web directory creation.

Moving files to the Web server:
Now it is time to copy your Web files -- all of the HTML files, as well as any graphics or other related files -- to the newly-created directory. The easiest way to do this is with FTP software (such as WS_FTP, CuteFTP, Fetch, etc.).

1. Using FTP, connect to ftp.InfoAve.net but not via an Anonymous login. Enter the Username and Password you are currently using for your own account. When FTP makes the connection to Info Avenue, you will be placed in your top-level directory. There will already be one or more subdirectories shown on the Remote host side, such as WORKSPACE. One of these directories will be WWW. Change to that subdirectory (most simply by double-clicking on the WWW directory name).
   You will see that a file called index.html has already been created for you, as a boilerplate HTML file. This is the template file used in the above testing of your new WWW directory. If you have a file by the same name, copying it to your new WWW directory will overwrite the template file. You may wish to rename one or the other before doing the file transfer.
2. Copy all relevant files from your system to your new WWW subdirectory. (This would include all of your HTML files, as well as any graphics or other files that are referenced within those HTML files.) Be sure to copy all HTML files in ASCII mode! You can now access these files across the Net using any WWW browser.

Accessing your files from the Info Avenue server:
The URL for your new files is:
http://web.InfoAve.net/~username/filename.html

where username is your Username and filename.html is the name of any HTML file you wish to access. Note that if your "home page" file is named index.html, you do not need to specify the filename; you may simply open the following URL:
http://web.InfoAve.net/~username