Free Programmer Supportpages on AmigaWorld

• We offer you a unique and easy web- and emailaddress
• The pages are free.
• We can act as your German and British registration site and additionally do registration by creditcard worldwide. This may increase your registrations dramatically.
• Your pages are accessable via FTP too at ftp.amigaworld.com
• You have full access to your pages by WWW, FTP and Telnet.
• Your program is in good company. Just have a look at the pages of other very well known programmers on AmigaWorld.
• Nice environment for your program through Eric Schwartz's graphics.
• Many people will learn about your software by tests and reports about AmigaWorld.
• We have installed several local services as counters, statistics and so on.
• You can easily setup a password-protected area for beta-versions or something similair.

• We don't expect very much from you. Perhaps the most important point is that your software should be of high quality. If we think that your software doesn't fulfill what we expect from highquality-software, there is always the option to rent a cheap homepage to have a _normal_ homepage on AmigaWorld.
• Additionally this space isn't thought for commercial software. If you want to present commercial software contact us to get prices for inclusion of your titles.
• Of course we expect you to keep the pages updated. Nobody does have any advantage of pages describing far too old versions of your software.
• We are planning to make regularely lotteries with keyfiles and similair things. Perhaps we will contact you to give away a free registration, but we won't force you to do this!

• FTP - you can upload and download data with your ftp-client
• Telnet - you can telnet to amigaworld to copy, delete and to do similair things on your pages.
• POP3 - you will have a pop3 email-account like olsen@amigaworld.com. We can also redirect the mails to your normal email-address.
• WWW - yes, and you can really view your own pages :)

• index.html
• welcome.html

Additionally we offer some variables to update the information about your program. They are stored in ascii-files in your home-drawer and should look like this:

name	this is the real name of your program. If you don't set this variable, the name of the directory will be used everywhere.
short	a one-worded description reflecting of which type your program is (e.g. graphic,music,tcp)
version	the actual version of your program.
description	an English description of your program.
beschreibung	an optional German description of your program. If you omit this, the English one will appear on the German pages.

Example: Create a file with the name version in your home-directory with the content (in the first line) 1.0a. You can easily do this on amigaside with echo >version 1.0a and then put it with FTP on the server.

Important:Your program will only be mentioned on the main support-page, if you add the above flags. Programs without these information will be ignored automatically by the maintanence software.

Counter

If you want to use a counter on your page we would advise you to take our internal counter, because so you can be sure it won't disappear and it will always be available with full speed.
You should use the following syntax (where xxx is a name chosen by you (without any path):
<IMG SRC="../cgi-bin/Count.cgi-pad=0&ft=0&dd=B&df=xxx.dat" tppabs="http://www.amigaworld.com/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?pad=0&ft=0&dd=B&df=xxx.dat">

Filenames

Amigausers will feel familiar here, because they can use long filenames with more than 8+3 characters :). But beware Unix will treat your filenames case-sensitive. So always chech out that your links to filenames and your files are completely the same or, that's my hint: just avoid capital letters.

EMail-Forwarding

If you don't want to read your emails with POP3 directly from AmigaWorld you can always decide to forward your AmigaWorld-EMails to your normal email-address. Just save a file called .forward in your homedirectory containing your main email-address. From now on every email will be redirected to this address.

Password Protected Areas (new in V1.2 and corrected in V1.3)

If you want to grant only selected persons access to parts of your webpage you have to do the following:

• Select a login account (in this example yoda)
• Select a password for yoda and crypt it with the command crypt. To crypt the password garthvader TELNET onto AmigaWorld and type: crypt garthvader. Please write down the resulting output and use it as stated in the example (let us assume the encrypted password is 1234567.
• Create a file called .htpasswd in your root directory on AmigaWorld containing the following line:
  yoda:1234567
• You can of course use more lines with additional users (and passwords) but never forget the carriage return at the end of the line (or file). Please also note that there is no space between the name, the colon (:), and the encrypted password.
• I would suggest creating this file on your local Amiga and transfering it to our server by FTP. BTW AmFTP is capable of creating directories too.
• Select a text to be shown in the loginsequence (as shown in line 3).
• Choose a directory to protect with this password and create a file similair to the following example inside of this directory and name this file .htaccess.
• Example of .htaccess inside of the protected directory:
  AuthUserFile /home/amigaworld/support/nameofyourdir/.htpasswd
  AuthGroupFile /dev/null
  AuthName Who is the secret father of WayneSkywalker?
  AuthType Basic
  <Limit GET>
  require user yoda
  </Limit>
  
• You can of course create several directories with a .htaccess file and protect it with one (or more) of the passwords from the global .htpasswd-file. If you have followed the given instructions, your directories should now be password-protected.

Access Restrictions

If you don't want anyone to run berzerk in your directory. You could/should set the owner-rights for your files. To do so:
• Login with Telnet
• Go to the parent directory of your support-directory
• Enter: chown -R myusername.aw nameofmydirectory
"Myusername" should of course be your loginname. "nameofmydirectory" should be replaced by the name of your directory and please pay attention to upper and lower case. The aw behind the dot stands for the group aw which is needed to grant access to the maintanence-software.

Some more Telnet commands

In the following I will briefly explain some telnet commands by showing the similarities to the AmigaDOS-commands.

Amiga command	Linux command
cd	cd
dir	ls -la
copy	cp
rename	rn
makedir	mkdir
delete	rm

Most commands can also be used on complete directories with the argument -R.

• V1.3: 20.06.97
  • corrected password-protected areas
  • added history
  • some spell-checking
• V1.4: 02.02.98
  • added a more detailed list of things to send, if you want to have a support page
  • removed offer of mailinglists because of the heavy server load
  • added paragraph about chown
  • added paragraph about the most important linux-commands under telnet
• V1.5: 15.05.98
  • enhanced the explanation of the variables for inclusion in the support-page.