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[arwink]

Can you telnet to the box?

Joys of being a netweenie.

Um, what's that?

 

[hong]

Joys of being a netweenie.

Um, what's that?

Right.

1) at the DOS prompt (I assume you can get to that?), type "telnet [box name]"

2) enter your username and password

3) type:

cd ~/public_html
ls -al

This should list all the files in the directory. On the same line as each one should be a string of letters and dashes, like
-rwxr--r--

That's the permissions for the file. You need to make sure the second and third 'r' show up (this is read access for everyone).

If this is not the case, type

chmod 644 *

which should let everyone read everything.

 

[arwink]

Yep. Done.

Still not getting anything up on the web-address though.

 

[hong]

Yep. Done.

Still not getting anything up on the web-address though.

What's the web address? What error do you get when trying to access it in your browser?

 

[arwink]

I've been told that it's meant to be

http://arwink.themadship.dhs.org

The error message I'm getting is a Connection Failed / (145) connection timed out.

 

[hong]

Ah, right, you can't do anything about that. If you'd got something like a "404 File not found" error, that would have been easy to deal with. As it is, it looks like your mates need to sort out their server.

 

[arwink]

Thanks of your help.

I may stop screaming at the computer for a bit now

 

[arwink]

Turned out to be a problem on the server end. It's fixed now, and I actually get to view my rough draft for the first time. Now I just need to add some content

Thanks again Hong. You just helped solve a month's worth of problems.