Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) is required to upload files to sjpc.org in 2008 

sjpc.org will migrate to a new server in January 2008.  Things will look the same except for FTP.  If you use FTP to upload files to your web page at sjpc.org, read on.  For several years sjpc.org has supported both FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol).  SFTP will continue to be supported, but FTP support will be discontinued due to FTP's security vulnerabilities.  File transfer software that does not support SFTP includes:

Web browsers:  Internet Explorer, Firefox, Sea Monkey, Opera, Netscape Navigator

Windows Clients:  WS_FTP LE, NcFTP, FTP Commander, FTP Surfer, AceFTP

Command line:  Windows FTP command

If you use one of the above to FTP updates to your web page on sjpc.org, please switch now to software that supports SFTP.  Free software that supports SFTP includes:

WinSCP at  http://www.winscp.net/eng/docs/protocols

FileZilla at http://filezilla-project.org/client_features.php

PSFTP at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

Cyberduck at http://cyberduck.ch/

You can have a personal world wide web page at SJPC, and people anywhere on the internet can view your web page.

• We use the most popular and flexible web server on the internet - Apache.

• We don't limit your space - if you want more megabytes, you can have them..

• We don't require you to update your page every so many days.

• No proprietary software is required to update your web page                                                                                                                

Home Page and Directory Naming

Your default web page URL is http://www.sjpc.org/~username.

URL http://www.sjpc.org/~username is the web server's alias for directory /home/username/public_html. This directory is where all your web pages belong.

Home page naming is flexible. Your page's URL can use either the "tilde plus userid" naming (like http://www.sjpc.org/~username) or a meaningful name (like http://www.sjpc.org/pilots) or both.

Your web site can have its own virtual domain at sjpc.org. For example, userid jgwarner's web page at /home/jgwarner/public_html/index.html could be viewed from the web by any of the following URL's...
http://www.sjpc.org/~jgwarner (default for userid)
http://www.sjpc.org/warnerfamily (alias)
http://thewarnertribe.sjpc.org (virtual domain)

If you also would like your web page directory to have a meaningful name (like http://www.sjpc.org/pilots), contact server administrator Alan Baker to have a directory alias set up in the web server. His phone number is inside the front cover of your Bits and PCs newsletter.

Your home page should be called either index.htm or index.html. This will allow web users to access your home page as http://www.sjpc.org/~username (without specifying index.htm or index.html). File names are cAsE sEnSiTiVe, so Index.htm and INDEX.HTM are not the same as index.htm.

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