Managing Web Accounts with Utils (old)

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WARNING!
The information in this article is severely depreciated.It is only provided for legacy purposes and is scheduled to be removed.
Please refer to the current revised version of this document, if available.

The intended audience for this guide are people who will create or maintain a home page on the OSU Extension web server, www.ag.ohio-state.edu. You should be familiar with a browser like Netscape.

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How to start the File Manager and Editor

Point your browser to: http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~utils/

You will see three choices.

  • Web Page file manager/editor
  • Automatic link checking of your web pages
  • Change your WEB password

Click on Web Page file manager/editor . You will be prompted for a username and password. The username is the name of your account. Enter both of these and click on "Login". Use the "Tab" key or the mouse to move between fields. The system is case sensitive. Your account name is most likely all lower case, but your password may be mixed case.

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The File Manager and Editor

At the top of the page you will see a listing of all the files in your public_html directory. If you are just beginning you will see just two entries:

index.html - your home page, the file which is served first when a browser accesses your account.
serverlog/ - a sub-directory where the system keeps activity logs of who visits your homepages.


Below the file listing is:

Working Directory: The complete path name to your working directory on the Web server.
Filename: The name of the file you are working on. This defaults to the first file in your directory.
Action Buttons:
Reload - Redisplays the directory. Use after a delete or an upload.
Edit - Start the browser editor, editing the file Filename.
Edit New File - Starts the editor with no file loaded.
View - Loads the file in Filename into your browser. This is how you may view your pages without starting another browser.
Delete - Deletes the file selected in Filename
Upload a File - You may enter the name of a file on your PC to be uploaded to the web server. Alternatively, use the action button
Browse... - A standard Windows file selection dialog box. Pick the file you wish to upload.
Upload - Perform the upload process from your PC to your working directory on the web server.
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Editing a File

Clicking on an html file's name will load it into the editor.

Putting the file's name in the "Filename" box, and clicking edit will load that file into the editor.

For an example we will edit the file index.html.

  1. Click on the arrow beside the Filename box. A display of the files in your working appears.
  2. Click on the file index.html.
  3. Click on Edit.
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The Editor

The editor displays the complete path name of the file at the top of the screen.

The action buttons are:

Load
View -Loads the page into your browser as an html document. View the page as it will appear to the public.
Save - Save the file with any changes your have made.
FileManager - Return to the main file manager page.


If you have loaded your index.html for the first time, your will see a simple statement like: 

Your web page begins here!

Now, add the following lines after the last line. 

This is <b>bold</b>.
If I am connected to the Internet, this link to <a href="http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/">OSU Extension</a> will work.

Now, click on View to see your work. Click on Back to go back to the document in the editor.

The usual Forward and Back navigation button work as usual. Click on Save to save the file.

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Uploading Files From Your PC

The File Manager can move files from your PC to the Webserver.

  1. Click on the Browse button. This will open a standard Windows dialog box.
  2. Choose the file you wish to upload.
  3. Click on OK. The file name will appear in the upload field.
  4. Click Upload. The file will be copied to your working directory on the web server.

Some people develop their html documents on their PCs and then upload them all at once. If you do this, be careful that your file names are consistent. In Windows 3.1, file names must be of the nnnnnnnn.nnn or 8 by 3 pattern, that is 1 to 8 characters followed by a period and a three character extension. Such PC html documents will have names like index.htm or bigevent.htm. This is OK, but be sure your internal references do not say bigevent.html.

Also, the directory structure will change when you move files to the server so avoid complete pathname references in your html documents. For example, the reference C:\WEB\EVENT.HTM will be invalid for a document on the web server.

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