168 Serving Your Customers
Hosting Personal Web Pages on Your Web Server
You can host on your Web server personal Web pages for individuals who do not need
their own domain names. This service is popular with educational institutions that host
non-commercial personal pages of their students and staff.
These pages usually have Web addresses like http://your-domain.com/~username.
To accommodate a personal web page on your server, allocate a separate Web space
and set up an FTP account for publishing:
1 Click the Domains shortcut in the navigation pane.
2 Click the required domain name in the list.
3 Click the Web Users icon.
4 Click Preferences.
5 If you wish to allow execution of scripts embedded in personal web
pages, select the Allow the web users scripting check box.
6 Click OK.
The settings you have defined at the step 5 are common for all personal Web
pages you might host on your Web server. Therefore, you will not need to perform
the steps 4 to 6 next time you set up a Web space for a personal Web page.
7 Click Add New Web User.
8 Specify a user name and password that will be used for accessing the
web space through FTP and publishing the web page.
You can use only lowercase alphanumeric, hyphen and underscore symbols in user
name. The user name should begin with an alphabet character. It cannot contain
white spaces. The password cannot contain quotation marks, white space, user's
login name, and should be between 5 and 14 characters in length.
9 Specify the programming languages that should be supported for the
Web page.
For example, if the web page is written in PHP, select the PHP support check box.
10 If you wish to limit the amount of disk space that can be occupied by
the Web page content, type the desired value in megabytes into the
Hard disk quota box.
When the specified limit is exceeded, the Web page owner will not be able to add
files to his or her Web space.
11 Click OK.
Now you can tell your user the FTP account credentials, so that he or she can publish
their Web page.
In this section:
Changing FTP Password for a Web Page Owner .............................................. 169
Allocating More Disk Space to the Web Page Owner ........................................ 169
Removing Web Page Owner's Account ............................................................. 169
