bethohio3

Common question If the two domains are exactly the same, and you want them to resolve to the same website, that is possible. Enter a help ticket and some magic wonderful guru will take care of it. If the two domains are different, they need separate accounts. They cannot share one of the regular accounts. If you have multiple domains, you can look into a reseller account. --Beth

I like the old name better. I can remember telecommsoftware.com. Without knowing what the initials stand for, I'd never remember tscwebdesign.com. And if they're your initials (is your name Thomas Samuel Cohen), then I'd vote for just using first and last initials--nobody is going to remember your middle initial anyway. Just my 2 cents worth! --Beth

It probably is not going to be possible to transfer the pages on your free site directly to TCH. However, you can save your free site to your hard drive, and then, when your TCH site is set up, upload it (via ftp) to your new site. ---Beth

I'm confused. Where do you want to install PHP? PHP is already installed and available on the TCH servers. You just have to use it. If you want to install it *at home*, then the php.net site probably has the best information about that.] --Beth

There are two common types of web hosting: dedicated and shared In a nutshell: Dedicated hosting means that the server (a specific computer system running software to server [deliver] web pages only hosts the pages for a single site. Shared hosting means that the server is hosting pages for multiple web sites. To explain those in more detail (if simply): Shared hosting is much more common. Assume you have an 80 GB hard drive that can hold web pages. If each website needs 8 GB, that server can host ten different websites. The machine (server) that has that 80 GB hard drive is shared. Not only is the hard drive shared, of course, but so is the CPU, RAM, bandwidth the machine can handle, etc. That's shared hosting. Dedicated hosting means that the entire system is dedicated to a single web site. The hard drive only has one web site on it. The CPU, RAM, and bandwidth are dedicated to supporting just that single web site. Semi-dedicated (as TCH does it) means that no more than 4 clients are on a single machine. Reasonably enough, dedicatd servers are much more expensive--the cost of the machine isn't spread out among as many clients. The question of "Which one do I need?" is answered "it depends". Most organizations starting out probably can do just fine with a shared hosting solution. When that stops being sufficient is when you move up to a semi-dedicated or a dedicated solution. Hope this helps. --Beth

Absolutely--what you are describing isn't set up as an email account; it's set up as a "Forwarder". So, create the account you want the mail to go to: mailbox@domain.com For any address where you want the mail to go to 'mailbox@domain.com', set up a forwarder. You can also set up a 'Default Address' so that all mail not explicitly addressed to someone goes to a specific email account box. --Beth

If you're interested in my "Not Ready for Prime Time" pages, I've played around a bit with news and weather. Viewing the source will show you where I grabbed the various magnets from. (There is another thread on this topic in the Scripts area: http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/i...=ST&f=26&t=894) Disclaimer: These pages aren't in 'production' yet. When they do go 'live', then I will include links with appropriate credits, especially in cases where I cropped information out of individual images. I appreciate their work and their effort, and want to give them full credit. I used http://www.timetemperature.com to grab the weather information for a weather page: http://www.bweiss.com/Trials/weather.htm I'm also playing around with news portals: http://www.bweiss.com/Trials/newsportals.htm http://www.bweiss.com/Trials/newsportal.htm This page has a combination of things, some using FrontPage extensions: http://www.bweiss.com/Trials/portal.htm --Beth

You might want to check out the scripting forum, and possibly this thread: http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/i...t=ST&f=26&t=690 I found that I didn't need PHP and MySQL installed on my own machine--I probably will do so eventually, but for the time being, I've just been running things on the site. (In a test environment I've set up in a subdomain) --Beth

I had a similar issue, and discovered that all of my email was going to my default email box, *and* that my default box was not what I had thought. I'll try and explain what I mean--it took me a while to figure it out: Domain = www.domain.com Username (login to cpanel) = beth Default email set to 'is-spam@domain.com' Here's what was strange to me: 'beth' <> 'beth@domain.com' They are two different email addresses and POP3 boxes. Since they are two different boxes, anything sent to 'beth@domain.com' was being handled by the default address handler--which I wasn't checking. To solve this (thanks, Bill!), I needed an *additional* email account: I still have my "main" account: beth I also have an additional account: beth@domain.com My default adress is set to: is-spam@domain.com I hardly ever check 'beth'--there's nothing on it. I check 'beth@domain.com' regularly--it's my mail account. I check "'s-spam@domain.com' occasionally--and filter it all into a single folder which I almost always delete without reading anything.

Well, it was far from the biggest snake on record, but if you want to see pictures of my family holding a snake, check out: http://www.bweiss.com/2001/wild_animals.htm --Beth (I don't own a snake, but I've always liked them)

I ended up buying two different PHP/MySQL books: PHP and MySQL Web Development, Luke Welling & Laura Thomson Professional PHP Programming, Wrox book, Castagnetto, Rawait, Schumann, Scollo, Veliath I've gotten my first PHP/MySQL page working (entering the information into a form that is is emailed to someone and also added to a database). You can't view the database through a web page yet, but hey, I'm working on it! My background might be helpful to know to put my remarks in context: Extensive programming experience, mostly in C and Pascal (i.e. before Object Oriented) I design databases and web application systems (including OO) Minor maintenance on JSP and ASP pages, as well as some Java objects that others wrote 10 years of teaching experience, including introductory programming and computer literacy Of these two books, Welling/Thomson is the one I can semi-recommend. I can't recommend the Wrox book at all. PHP and MySQL Web Development has pluses and minuses: Basic introduction to programming concepts: variables, loops, selections, functions--good for a beginner Explanations of variable scope and object oriented program too advanced for a beginner but too basic for someone experienced Code examples start out very basic--easy to copy and modify Some poor programming style issues--not of importance to a beginner but annoying to someone who knows more about programming I didn't read the database concepts sections, so can't review those The Wrox book (Professional PHP Programming) doesn' t have a clue who its audience is. There are extensive lists of functions/methods/types that are almost straight from the www.php.net page and should be in an appendix if they're included at all Lots of "piddly" comparisons Code in the early sections is too trivial to merit the "Professional" title This is not a "reading" book--it's a reference book--but not organized properly for that So, that's my take on the two I bought, at any rate! --Beth

Yes, it's small enough. Thanks for caring :-) --Beth

I'm still begging for a teensy tinsy little graphic. I'm the subtle sort--and would like to include a TCH banner in my footer, but it can't be more "obvious" than the content on the page! --Beth :-)

I've learned quite a bit about FrontPage 2002 subwebs, subdomains, and permissions today, and wanted to share it. My goal: Create a subdomain, build a subweb, publish the subweb to the subdomain, password the whole thing so that only a few of us could get to it. (It's for a conference that's in the planning stages--not even the theme is public knowledge yet, so I didn't want to put it off of my main site, and didn't want it accessible by anonymous browsing.) 1) Create a subdomain. This is really easy to do in cpanel. What I didn't know: www.bweiss.com/rg and rg.bweiss.com are equivalent 2) Create a subweb in FrontPage. There are two different ways to do this. I did it in multiple steps, but it would have been easier to do it one step (more later). I created a folder (rg) from my main web, and then right clicked on it *in the folder view*, and selected "Convert to web". I did this with an empty folder--if you already have files in the web, you can still create the subweb, but links from/to them might be corrupted. 3) Opened the subweb as its own FrontPage instance. Just double click on it. You can't "work with" a childweb (subweb) in the main web window. It won't let you view the files. 4) Build some pages (same as always--this part was the easy part.) 5) Publish the web. (Omit much time while I figured stuff out). I thought I should publish to rg.bweiss.com--but it wouldn't accept my password. What it wanted was to publish to www.bweiss.com/rg. Remember--those two are logically the same. It published to www.bweiss.com/rg without a problem, *and* it could be viewed by rg.bweiss.com. 6) Set the protections. You set the protections using the "server" option on the Tools menu. However, if you are editing your web on your hard disk (which is what most of us do, and is usually the best way to build your website), that option isn't available. It is *only* available if you open the *actual* web on the TotalChoice server. a) To open your web on the TotalChoice server: Go to Open Web on the Files menu, and enter the top level web address. I think but am not positive that I had to use http://www.bweiss.com/rg. Once I got that set up, http://rg.bweiss.com worked also, but I don't think it worked the first time. Set permissions for this subweb: you need them to be *different* from the parent web c) Manage users. I think the main user is automatically set (but can't repeat it to be sure). Create at least one additional user with a username or password, and assign a role (how much stuff they can do). That's the username/password you'll give to other people. d) Change "anonymous access settings"--you need to disable anonymous access settings so that a password is *required* to even get to the top page of your subweb. There appear to be other cool functions available from the Administration Page, but I didn't play with them--wanted to get back to learning php :-) Hope this helps someone else. --Beth

Well team, I do understand the joy of a large monitor. I'm living with 17"s at home. In fact, there are four 17" monitors (one for each box). (One box is being given away to a new home soon; I'm not sure yet which monitor (if any) is going with it.) But at work, well, my monitor situation is pretty darned wonderful. I have a 21" and a 17" set up on my desk. One of the guys has 3 monitors (a 21" and two 17"s), but I think that might be excessive. But the dual-monitor setup is wonderful. :-) I don't really need or want it at home, but there's nothing like having twice the screen real estate! --Beth

I have another perspective, which is: Don't Do It! I find it very frustrating when I try to bookmark a page and can't hold on to the URL that I want to come back to. If I wanted to bookmark the home page, I would have. If I bookmark a page that's further down, it's because that's what I wanted to return to. As a personal example, a few months ago, as I was browsing various tattoo artists' sites, I found a portfolio I really liked and an image I really liked. I wanted to send the URL to a couple of friends so they could see what I was thinking of. Unfortunately, because the site used frames, that page didn't have a URL I could send to a friend. I had to send the home page URL and give directions for navigating to the particular page I wanted them to see. (Only my closest friends bothered.) On the other hand, after I got my tattoo, when I sent out the URL (http://www.bweiss.com/tattoo/my_tattoo.htm) to a mailing list I'm on, even aquaintances were willing to look, since it was a single click to actually get to the page they wanted. So anyway, that's my personal take--I'd rather have the power to bookmark a complicated URL if I want to--and if I can't, I frequently will use a competing site for the information--I only bothered with the frame-based tattoo site because I *really* like the guy's artwork. (He turned out to be terrific by the way.) --Beth

Lianna is right--we can't count on 5 minute turnaround for tech support :-) But, we can count on "a couple of hours"--and I think that's fantastic! For that matter, my non-hosting topic questions in the forums have gotten that kind of response from the tech support team, as well as from other members. TCH ROCKS! and so do the rest of us! --Beth

Hi! I am using FrontPage 2002. When I first signed up, I published my domain using my IP address. I can't remember now what was totally messed up--but it was totally messed up. I chatted with Bill online; he asked me to submit a help ticket, and then he recreated my account for me (thanks Bill!). As soon as my domain name propogated, though, I had no trouble at all publishing via FrontPage. It just didn't like the IP address. If you have any trouble publishing via FrontPage, feel free to give me a shout, either here, or through Yahoo! PM (bethohio3) I'm sure you'll like TotalChoice as much as I do! --Beth

I'd really like to see a *small* image, too. Something no bigger than the FrontPage 2002 image that TCH has at the bottom of its pages. I generally don't do free advertising for companies I do business with. (It's not my job to publicize their hosting service) BUT, I am pleased enough with my TCH account that I would include it. But since I'm unwilling to have such a big logo on my page, I currently only have a small text referece. I'd prefer a logo, but it would have to be very small. (Perhaps just the yellow globe, and Hosted by Total Choice Hosting".) --Beth

Hi! I think of subdomains as most useful when they are not going to be linked from the main site. As an example, I am a Girl Scout leader. I am going to create a subdomain (troop###.****), which will be passworded. There will not be links from my main site--anyone who needs to go there will have to remember the link. I will put troop-specific information on that subdomain. *It* might contain a link to my main site--but not vice versa. For me, the key question to ask is "Should this be part of my overall navigation scheme?" (Corrollary: Do I want people who are visiting TopicA to be lured into TopicB?" If you do, then put TopicA and TopicB as directories under your main page and build your navigation bars to encourage movement from one area to another. If the answer is no, then build subdomains. To be pedantic for a minute, here is my personal example: "Do I want people who have stumbled across my pages on Ohio's Motorcycle Safety Class to be lured into reading about my troop's plans for Camporee in May?" The answer to that question is "no"--so the troop is a subdomain. "Do I want people who have stumbled across my pages on Ohio's Motorcyle Safety Class to be lured into viewing my tattoo and reading about baby's sleep schedules?" The answer to that is "Sure, why not, if they're interested." So, the tattoo pictures and writings about sleep schedules, pregnancy, delivery, etc. are all part of my navigation scheme. I hope this helps! --Beth

I'm a little confused--why would you need Group Mail instead of just using the provided Mailman lists? There's even a built-in interface for Mailman. Reading over Group Mail's services, it sounds as if *most* of the uses people would want to put it through are spam. Am I missing something? Uses of about 50 recipients sounds like small business work--big lists sound like, well, spam. I receive several high-volume email newsletters from reputable companies. I suspect, however, that those are companies that budget appropriately for their email marketing and wouldn't even consider budget/free services--they are likely to have programmers on-staff to handle their database of people who have signed up for their marketing emails. --Beth

I have set up a couple of mailman lists. And of course, I have a few questions. (Please, Lianna, don't send me back to school!) Can I have them displayed as "public" on my mailman page (http://www.bweiss.com/mailman/listinfo)? That page currently says I have no publicly available lists. They do show, however, on the server's lists: http://www.bweiss.com/mailman/admin Is that just a "deal with it" of having a shared server? :-) Do the lists have to have my domain name appended to them? (For their accessible page of (http://www.bweiss.com/mainman/listinfo/sprats_bweiss.com) Thanks! --Beth

Please don't send me back to school! Please! These aren't really coding questions--they really are "where do I put the files on my host" question. How about if I rephrase my primary question, since I swear it's quite simple: My website, of course, is under the 'www' directory. If I want to create a directory to store my common JS files so that they can be included by files within my www web, where would i create that 'common' directory? Does it go under 'www', or under the top level? (These are the kind of stupid questions that come up when moving from a defined-production environment) --Beth

Straightforward background: I'm using FrontPage 2000, and writing the JavaScript I need directly into the HTML panel. There's no problem with this :-) But, since there are certain functions I use on every page, I'd like to include some basic functions rather than repeat the function. I can create the file (say, 'commonfunctions.js'). The question is, where do I put it? I'd prefer it not be directly openable or viewable by others. I'd also like to be able to refer to it with a relative path if possible, or at least, not something so hard-coded I'm going to regret it. If life were really nice :-), I'd be able to use it from subdomains as well as my main domain. (I don't have a subdomain yet, but I'm thinking ahead.) Also looking ahead, would PHP standard functions go in the same directory as the JavaScript ones? (or at least off the same top-level location?) And for a final question (this one is more FP specific), where do I put them on my own machine so that I can run them during development as well as having them available at production? Thanks! --Beth

Well, as a former FP customer, I can *assure* you that TCH will treat you better than FP. (Check out findmyhosting.com for TotalChoice reviews, and yourhostsucks.com for FP reviews.) It sounds to me as if one of the reseller packages would do exactly what you want. Just buy a reseller package and host all your domains through it. You don't have to sell any of them--just use them yourself! (That's what Lianna has recommended to me, and if I need another site or two, I might just do that!) --Beth