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United Telephone is now offering personal web pages free of charge to UTMA Internet subscribers. Please contact United Telephone for details regarding content and space limitations. Free web page hosting is for personal use by UTMA subscribers only. For information regarding business, professional, and commercial web hosting, please contact United Telephone.

United Telephone is providing this service as a convenience to our valued customers. Because we are providing the page hosting for free, we will be unable to provide any technical support beyond the instructions on this page. If you require additional technical support, please feel free to have your personal page developed, designed, and published by a professional web design firm, or ask a high-school kid to help you.

Your personal web page location within your UTMA dial-up account may be accessed using the Internet File Transfer Protocol (FTP). You will need to obtain FTP software on your own. Advanced users may choose to use special content publishing software, which may be configured to use FTP as the publication protocol. These instructions describe how to use command-line FTP client software, such as the FTP client included with Windows95 dial-up networking.

In order to activate your personal web page, you must first create a special directory within your dial-up account at UTMA where your web page will be stored:

Step 1

Start an ftp session with UTMA
  1. Click "Start"
  2. Select and click "Run"
  3. Type ftp www.utma.com in the combo box as shown below.
  4. Click OK.

  • A window will come up similar to the one below. You will need to log into the ftp server using your existing account information.
  1. Type in your UTMA username at the FTP user: prompt. (Replace "MY-USERNAME" with your username.)
  2. Type in your UTMA password at the FTP password: prompt

Step 2
Creating the web page directory
Create the public_html directory. This directory must be named "public_html", in all lowercase letters, with an underscore separating the words public and html. If the directory is improperly created, your web content will not be accessible. If you have trouble viewing your personal web page, come back to this step and verify that you have created your personal web page directory correctly.
  1. After you have successfully logged in using ftp, type the following commands at the FTP command prompt:
    mkdir public_html
    dir

  • You should see the public_html directory in your directory listing -- there may be several other files and directories as well --but the working directory for your personal web pages will be public_htm


Step 3
Uploading Files

  • Now that you have created your personal web page directory, you will be able to place web pages, images, sounds and other web content in the directory. Although only you may manipulate the files in your public_html directory, anything you place in your public_html directory will become publicly viewable to the entire Internet. It is up to you to know how to create and maintain your personal web page. Once you have created your personal web page(or pages) and are ready to upload them, go on to the next step.
  • To upload files to your personal web directory:
  • Log in to your account using the procedure in Step 1.
  • type cd public_html at the ftp> prompt.
  • if necessary, use the lcd command at the ftp prompt to change to the directory on your computer containing the files you will be uploading.
  • upload the files using the put or mput commands at the ftp> prompt.

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