Hello!

Michael here. In my never-ending quest to do more cool things, I have now made it possible for Inland Internet.'s users to have their own personal web pages about whatever tickles their fancy. Well, the candy isn't always sweet- here's the catch.

First, some ground rules:

  • You must make your own web page.
  • You must upload it yourself.
  • You must do your own graphics.
  • Don't pester me with questions (at least not TOO much ;-)
  • Do not include any copyrighted material in your web page- if you do I will have to unlink your page. Too much legal mumbo-jumbo lately. Ack. Repeat offenses of this will result in account termination without refund of fees.
  • Do not include any explicit adult-oriented material in your page- this is a family oriented service and there are minors as well as those who simply do not care for such material around. If you disregard this your page will be unlinked. Repeat offenses will result in non-refundable account termination.
  • If you exceed your disk limit of 5 megabytes average per day, you will be invoiced $10/megabyte/month that you are over limit.
  • Support on personal page-related issues is limited to UNIX permissions issues only.
  • Sorry, folks- you can't run CGIs from personal pages.

Here's the basics of how to do this.

Please do print this guide out.

1. Construction

  • Make your page. This can be done in a couple of ways. One is to go to This Page and download an editor. These usually have some sort of tutorial on HTML. I highly recommend Homesite for this purpose- novices and experienced Websters alike. ;-) Make a page on your computer at home and then move on to the next step- preparation and uploading.
  • Or for the adventurous and experienced in the ways of UNIX, telnet to our main UNIX host, ns1.inland.net, and edit your page by hand. This involves the directory creation part of step two, but bypasses the actual uploading of step three.
  • Make sure your page includes a link to Inland Internet.'s home page- absolutely essential, this one is. ;-)

    http://www.inland.net/

2. Preparation

  • First become moderately familiar with how to telnet and ftp. Here I am assuming that those bravehearted and adventurous enough to want a web page should either know already or be able to figure it out. Correct me if I am wrong.
  • Telnet to ns1.inland.net, with Windows 95 it will be "Start" "Run" where it says command line type: "telnet ns1.inland.net" without the quotes of course. Windows 3.1/11 on the Embarque bar you will see a program called Terminal. You have to create a new login for it. You will see what I mean the address is the same ns1.inland.net. Log in with your account login name and password. This will drop you in your home directory, the place your five megabytes of disk space goes. Type 'ls' (without the single-quotes). This is the UNIX equivalent of 'dir' and will show you the contents of your directory. If there is not already an entry called 'public_html' we need to create it.
  • Skip this item if you already have a 'public_html' directory- if you do, you probably already know what you are doing, or are me. If not, then type 'mkdir public_html'. You have just created a directory in UNIX. Remarkably similar to DOS, yes? Well, 'cd' works the same, too.
  • Type 'cd ..' You probably already figured out what that did. Oh, and whenever I type the word 'username' in these instructions, substitute your own login name.
  • Type 'chmod 755 your login name'
  • Type 'cd your login name'
  • Type 'chmod 755 public_html'
  • Exit the telnet session if you created your files at home, 'cd public_html' if you write HTML manually, and go.

3. Uploading

  • Use and FTP client to ftp to ftp.inland.net. Log in using your standard user name and password. Again, this drops you in your home directory.
  • Change directories to public_html.
  • Transfer your files.
  • Exit the FTP session.

4. The final touches- Making sure it works

  • Make sure that the page you want to default to, i.e. the first page of your site, is named 'index.html'
  • If it is not, telnet to ns1.inland.net again and type 'cd public_html'.
  • Now we learn another UNIX command. This one does the same thing as the DOS 'rename' command. Here is the syntax:

    mv oldfilename newfilename

    Use this command to make sure your default page is 'index.html'
  • Exit the telnet session.
  • Try browsing your page- the URL is

    http://www.inland.net/~username

  • If it looks like you want it to, you are done. If not, then fix it and re-upload it. I recommend using relative referencing for anchors and images. This ensures that the links will work after the transfer.
  • E-mail me with problems. Or compliments. I just LOVES compliments. ;-)

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