The User Management section on the Site Management screen allows you to perform administrative functions related to site users - adding or removing users, entering and modifying user names and passwords, and managing users' disk space allocations, Telnet access, and e-mail aliases. Login to your online control panel at http://www.yourdomain.com/siteadmin/.
Adding a user
To add a user to a site, follow these steps:
1. Go to the Site Management screen.
2. Click User Management.
3. Click Add User.
4. Enter the information for the user.
Enter the user's name and password, set a total disk space allocation for the user, and enable Telnet access and enter email aliases (if appropriate - see the description in "Entering User E-mail Settings and Aliases" below). You can also choose to assign the user to be the administrator for the virtual site.
5. Click Confirm New User.
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Caution: When you're on the Site Management screen for the main site (which is the Cobalt RaQ), the user settings for the RaQ administrator can be modified here, including name and password. Please make sure you remember the Cobalt RaQ administrator password. If you forget the password, see "Resetting the RaQ Administrator Password" for instructions on resetting it. |
Mail Forwarding and Vacation Reply
Individual users can choose to have their Cobalt RaQ e-mail forwarded to another e-mail account. Users can also choose to have a vacation-reply message that's automatically sent to each person who sends the user an e-mail. This feature is useful when users know they won't be reading or responding to incoming email messages for a period of time. As the site administrator, you can enter these settings for users (at their request) as described below in "Changing User Settings".
Note: A vacation-reply e-mail is sent only once per day to each sender.
E-mail Aliases
Each registered user on the Cobalt RaQ must have a unique username (e.g., mary, john). This username is used to send or retrieve e-mail. When a username is already taken by another site (for example, username mary exists and her e-mail goes to mary@abc.com), you can add a new user with a similar name (maryb) and configure the server to receive e-mail with the desired name (user maryb receives mail for mary@xyz.com). The user then enters the desired "return address" in his or her e-mail software.
Note: To address a user by an alias, a sender must always include the hostname in the recipient's e-mail address, e.g., alias@hostname.domainname.com, even if domainname.com is in the "Receive e-mail addressed to" field in the e-mail parameters table (in the Control Panels/Services section of the Server Management screen).
Catchall Email Account
A catchall email account receives emails addressed to former users or non-existent users on a virtual site. For example, if an email is addressed to mary@xyz.com, but the user name "mary" does not exist on that domain, the email is routed to the catchall account.
A Site Administrator can reated a catchall email account. This involves simply creating a certain alias for a designated user on the virtual site; this user does not have to be the Site Administrator.
For the user on a virtual site who will receive the messages routed to the catchall account, the Site Administrator creates an email alias of "@www.YourDomainName" e.g. @www.netcoservices.com.
1. On the Site Management screen, click User Management on the left. The User List table appears.
2. Click the blue envelope icon for the site user who will receive the email for the catchall account. The Email Settings table will appear.
3. Enter "@www.YourDomainName" in the Email Aliases window. If there is already an alias in the window, add the new alias on a separate line.
4. Click Save Changes.
Changing User Settings
To change the name, password, disk space allocation, or Telnet access for an existing user, or to make an existing user the site administrator, click User Management on the Site Management screen, then click the pencil icon for the user. Enter the changes you want in the Modify User table.
To set up or modify the e-mail options for an existing user, click User Management on the Site Management screen, then click the envelope icon for the user. In the table that appears, you can enter a forwarding e-mail address, email aliases, and an automatic vacation reply. These options are described in "Entering User E-mail Settings and Aliases".
If you want to remove a site user, click the trash icon for the user. To confirm that you want to remove the user, click OK in the confirmation dialog box that appears.
List Management Section
The List Management section on the Site Management screen allows you to create and manage mailing lists for the site.
To add a mailing list:
1. Go to the Site Management screen.
2. Click List Management.
3. Click Add Mailing List.
4. Enter a name for the mailing list, then enter the email addresses of the members of the list.
5. If there are existing users you want to include in the list, select them (one at a time) from the pull-down menu, and then click the bent, down-pointing arrow to add the selected user to the list.
6. You can specify aliases for the mailing list by entering them in the "Aliases" area. (You don't need to include the domain in the aliases.)
7. When you're finished, click Confirm New Mailing List.
To modify a mailing list, go to the Site Management screen, click List Management, click the pencil icon for the mailing list, modify the information as needed, and then click Confirm Modify.
To delete a mailing list, go to the Site Management screen, click List Management, click the trash icon for the mailing list, and then click OK to confirm that you want to delete the mailing list.
Site Settings Section
In the Site settings section of Site Management, you can see the domain name and IP address of the site, change the disk space allocation for the site, and choose the frequency with which Web usage reports will be generated. If CGI has been enabled for your site (by the RaQ administrator), you can turn CGI on or off for all the site's users.
CGI allows users to have Web sites run programs that dynamically generate HTML pages in response to specific user inputs. CGI scripts can be created on a user's desktop computer and then transferred to the Cobalt RaQ with an FTP application (as explained in Chapter 5). CGI scripts must have a .pl or .cgi filename extension.
FTP Settings Section
As the site administrator, you can enable the anonymous FTP server for the site, set limits on the size of files that can be uploaded, and set the number of simultaneous users. This feature allows users without passwords to download and upload files via FTP, up to the specified disk-space limit.
To change the FTP settings for your site, click FTP Settings on the Site Management screen, enter the setting you want, and then click Save Changes.
To download files via anonymous FTP, log onto the site with the username "guest" or "anonymous" - you don't need to enter a password. When you log on with one of these usernames, you'll enter the directory /home/sites/sitename/ftp/ . (This directory can be accessed via the URL ftp: //IP address/ .) The site administrator can post files here for downloading via FTP client software or a Web browser.
To upload files, you must use FTP client software (for example, Fetch) and access the directory /home/sites/sitename/ftp/incoming/. Once you've uploaded a file, you (as a guest) can't see it or access it on the FTP site. However, all registered site users with Telnet/shell privileges can access it.
The size limit specified for FTP uploads is the total amount of disk space allocated for FTP uploads. If this number is set to 0, guests cannot upload to the FTP site.
Disk Usage Section
In this section of Site Management, you can monitor how much disk space is being used by the site and its users.
Web Usage Section
The Web Usage section allows you to download a Web log file for your site, or view the last report that was downloaded. To download a log file, go to the Web Usage section of Site Management, then click Download Log File.
Backup Section
As a site administrator, you can back up your own site or a user directory that belongs to a user on your site. To do either of these, go to the Backup section of Site Management and follow the onscreen instructions.
Restore Section
Restoring a site or user directory on the Cobalt RaQ is a simple procedure. First, go to the Restore section of Site Management. Click BROWSE and select the .raq backup file to restore on the RaQ. Click Selective Restore, if you want to restore only some of the files, then click the Restore button (below the File Restoretable).