Previous Next Your Web Server's Directory Structure When you connect to your Web server with an FTP client you'll see the following directories: Directory Description /cgi-bin This is where you put Perl & compiled C scripts /bin This is where system binaries are stored. You generally don't need to concern yourself with this directory. /conf This area is used by FrontPage and only appears if the site has been modified by FrontPage. /counter /counter This directory holds a file named access_count , which keeps track of hits for your counters. /etc This links to configuration files and other files on the server. Again, you generally don't need to concern yourself with this directory. /log /log holds the raw logs for your Web site. /mivadata This is used for housing any scripts written in the miva scripting language. /pub If you anonymously FTP to domain.com, you end up in here. This is your publicly accessible directory for FTP. See Your FTP Site for more about using this directory. /realaudio Any RealAudio or RealVideo files go here. It is a link to the RealMedia server. /usage This directory contains bandwidth logs. /usr This holds the private FTP Dropboxes. A Dropbox for a user named "turtle" would be /usr/private/turtle. You generally don't need to concern yourself with this. For more on using FTP Dropboxes, see Your FTP Site . /www This is where you put your Web page files, images, etc. This chapter concerns itself only with the /www subdirectory, which is where you should put your HTML files. Previous Next

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