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Hi Robert. So far there are a couple of things I see. In the Footer: Linux names are case-sensitive, and the image name is footerbg.png, but the declaration says footerbg.PNG. Footer and Main: There's a folder path problem with the declaration of the images in the css file. The css file lives a level down from public_html in the 'css' folder and the images live in the 'images' folder at the same level. But the declarations say url("images/[image name]") which expects the 'images' folder to be below the 'css' folder. Try it like this: url("/images/[image name]"), which looks for the 'images' folder one level down from 'public_html' where it actually is. Those two changes made both the footer and the main background appear for me. One other thing about the code in the footer. XHTML requires that all tags be closed, but the <p> tag in your code is not closed. Since you're using XHTML TRANSITIONAL it will probably display, but it won't validate. Hope that helps.

If I understand your question properly, you're looking for the URL of the uploaded files? If so, your example may be correct as it is. When you set up an FTP account through cPanel it asks for a Username, which it then defaults in as the folder name (below public_html). For instance, if you create an account for joe@domain.com, the default URL will be www.domain.com/joe. If you've changed the default then the URL will be www.domain.com/[whatever you set it to]. If I've misunderstood, please keep asking. We love to help around here.

Great tutorial, Don. Very clear and nicely illustrated. I've seen the syntax a few times, but never really understood it until now. Thanks! Thumbs Up

It's not a new idea. Frank Herbert in Dune posited a whole society living in an endless desert, wearing suits that recycled all their bodily water and fed it back to the wearer to drink. Of course the idea of drinking my own recycled fluids is certainly more appealing than someone else's. Still, as Raul says the situation is getting worse, not better. Who knows what we may live to experience.

Great news! Congratulations, Thomas.

Yes, thanks for thinking of it. I do that automatically.

Thanks, Ty. I hope so too.

I did talk to the Help Desk again, and they sent me a filtered log of all email through the account in the last few days. From it I learned a couple of things: The log shows no origins or sizes, so in that regard it isn't much help for things like blacklisting. It also shows no recipient for mail identified as Spam and discarded, so it's no help in seeing who it's directed at. Basically, you have to capture all the mail and look at each piece to make any kind of determination. Lots of work, and spammers are crafty: I rarely got more than a couple from the same sender. It did show the outgoing (smtp) side of things, which is something I couldn't see anywhere else. It wasn't of significant volume, and had no appreciable effect on the problem I think. It also showed me that my research wasn't accurate, because many messages were dropped due to the mailbox being full. I hadn't set my box size large enough to accept the volume of mail that came in. So my numbers regarding mail I saw come in were too low. In talking with the Help Desk, I determined that all mail that comes in, whether to real mailboxes or non-existent recipients or that identified as spam, all counts against bandwidth. To that extent, there's nothing I can do about it except shut down the domain. Not. I've set SpamAssassin to a very restrictive filter, and directed all mail so identified to Discard. At least I won't take the hit for sending it back out to people. In the end, I've decided that the account is just being spammed by some robot. The mail I collected and reviewed showed significant evidence of messages sent to a long list of non-existent names @domain.com. Sort of a try-every-combination-beginning-with-B thing. I've set the bandwidth limit high enough so the account won't get shut down while I'm not looking, and hope that it will stop when the robot gets to the end of the alphabet and moves on to someone else. Thanks for asking. I hope this helps.

Thanks for the idea. They must be able to do it. I'll give it a try.

If this is in the wrong forum, please move it. I will try to keep the preamble short, but some background is necessary. A little while ago I discovered that one of my accounts was suddenly using up Bandwidth at three times the normal amount. I checked, using all the tools I know of, and the extra seems to be POP related. I put in a Help Desk tcket, and was told that the excess 'seemed to be consumed by email', but that I could not look at the logs, because they are server-wide. OK. So I did further research for most of today, watching every mailbox in the account. Here is what I discovered: Given: bandwidth numbers in cPanel are updated about every 6.5 hours Between approximately 10:30am and 5:00pm (EDT) the Bandwidth consumed was 90.6mb (14 mb/hr) During that time ALL the POP mail that came in, including that marked as SPAM amounted to 3mb. During that time the HTTP traffic (viewed and not viewed) was 17mb. Since I am the only one with FTP access, I can say with some certainty that there was none. (If there was, by the way, how would I know? There doesn't seem to be a tool for monitoring FTP) So: even if I triple the mail amount to allow for the POP mail that came in going back out to its recipients (even the SPAM, which did not go out and is normally Discarded) and a like amount for SMTP, the total should be 9mb (mail) + 17mb (http) = 26mb (4 mb/hr) Where is the other 10 mb/hr going? How can I find out? Is there anyone out there with any experience in this area? Thank you in advance, anybody, for any insight.

Sometime in the last week, bandwidth on one of my accounts suddenly jumped, and has stayed high since. Awstats reports that web traffic is right at the level it usually is for this time of the month. I'm the only one with FTP access, and I know I'm not doing a lot of that. From what I can tell by the new Bandwidth page through cPanel, the newly high level is from a suddenly high level of POP3 email. Today I changed SPAM ASSASSIN setting so that anything SA identifies as SPAM gets Discarded. It hasn't changed anything. Finally, to the questions: 1) If SA sees email and marks it, and it's then discarded, does it count against bandwidth? (I expect so, but I have to ask) 2) More importantly, is there any way to monitor email traffic separately? The account has several mailboxes, whch are downloaded pretty quickly by a company sever so I don't see them. It would be very helpful if I could see what's coming through the account and maybe stem the tide before it goes off the charts. Thank you in advance, anyone with any insight about this. Jim

I looked again at my script, and it uses copy() instead of move_uploaded_file(). Maybe the move..() is getting the error when your script tries to delete the temporary file? Here's my code: I think the temporary files are thrown away when the session ends, so copy should be sufficient.

I had some trouble trying to do something like that. Turns out it's an ownership thing. You own the folders on your site, but PHP isn't you. I think it's identified as 'nobody'. If you make a folder, say Images, using cPanel File Manager, and set permissions to 777, then have your script move the uploaded files to Images it should work. The relevant line in your script: would be Perhaps not the most articulate answer, but it worked for me. If it's unclear, keep asking and I'll try to explain further.

Hi wrongblonde. Let me see if I can explain DNS. The acronym stands for Domain Name Server. When someone types in a domain name into their browser, say www.******, that name has to be translated into the Internet address, in the form of a number, of the machine that hosts the site itself. The database that has the information to do the name-to-number conversion is distributed among a bunch of computers all over the world. When you get the name, the registrar has to publish the information about the name and what machine number it belongs to, and the information has to make its way to all those computers. The process is known as DNS propagation. Because the computers that keep the information are spread out all over, that process can take some time. Hope that helps. Jim

Of course. I get it. You wanted people who attended both years, not just either or. Thanks for posting the good answer. Jim

Windows XP on the main laptop. Linux RH9 on an older laptop so I can learn it.

Hi Miriam. The problem may be the AND. Try this: SELECT COUNT(Attendees.LastName) FROM Attendees WHERE Attendees.EventYear='2003' OR Attendees.EventYear='2004' GROUP BY Attendees.LastName Another thing I noticed is the close parenthesis at the end after the GROUP BY clause. Is that a typo in your post or part of the actual query? Hope this helps a little. Jim

I know it feels awful, and there's nothing to do sometimes but wait for the feeling to recede. I console myself by remembering that Ted Williams, probably the greatest hitter of all time, failed 6 out of 10 times. Good thoughts to you. Jim

The full path should be /home/[cpanelusername]/public_html. Hope that helps.

There are 3 people I know of, friends of mine, who are TCHers. There may be others; who knows? With such a growing family, the guy next door could be.

I think the IP forwarding is not necessary. All you should have to do is modify the DNS entries. One of the Gurus will correct me if I'm wrong, I'm sure. Welcome to the Family Jim

One thing that might help is, in addition to your margin:0; declaration, add padding:0;. And you could use the height:90%;width:90%; as suggested above. You might only need to use 99%, or 98%, or . . . experimentation I guess. That would go in the code of the page being displayed in the frame, not the code of the frame itself. Sadly, there may be nothing you can do in the end, because Microsoft always knows better.

I prefer SquirrelMail myself because of its simplicity. But you can get into the others directly. See this page on the TCH Help Site for instructions.

Dear TCH Friend My thoughts and prayers with you as you face this new challenge. All things have a purpose, however unclear to us at the moment. May this leg of your journey bring you new strength to face whatever is next. With love and all best wishes Jim

Hi Tracy. I used Adobe Audtion's free trial, and I too liked it. But as Kasey says, it's quite expensive. I have since been using Audacity (free), which you can find at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/. Not as full of bells and whistles, but so far it does everything I've needed. Hope it helps Jim