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- Is telnet a
good way to administrate my RaQ?
- Where do I
access statistics for my individual Web sites?
- Where do I
retrieve "access_log" files to run local reports with
WebTrends or another program?
- How can I
password protect a directory?
- Are there
any CGI scripts or programs that can do this for me or
let me or my customers manage passwords?
Is telnet a good way to administrate my RaQ? Cobalt provides the following
warning when you telnet into your RaQ:
Managing your RaQ server by any other method than the
provided GUI is NOT recommended. Only individuals
comfortable in the UNIX command line environment should
attempt to telnet or SSH into a RaQ.
Where do I access statistics for my individual Web
sites? Statistics for the
RaQ servers are created automatically and are available
in the "Site Management" Web control panel of each
particular virtual Web site.
To access, simply log into your virtual Web site's
Site Management panel, click on "Web Usage" and
then select which type of report you want to view.
Graphs are available for 5 Minute, Hourly, Daily, and
Weekly Reports, as well as Hourly and Daily Summaries.
Where do I retrieve a site's "access_log" files to
run local reports with WebTrends or another
program? The Web log files
are in a file called "access" in the
/home/sites/[sitename]/logs directory.
How can I password protect a directory?
There is no browser interface to allow
this feature, but a telnet session will allow this to be
done.
For this example, we will show how to password
protect a users Web page. You can apply this procedure
to virtual sites also by changing the directories.
- Telnet in, and login as the User or admin.
- Create the ".htaccess" file (type: pico .htaccess), it
should contain the following lines:
# Access
file
order allow,deny
allow from all
require
valid-user
Authname
DirectoryName
AuthPAM_Enabled off
Authtype
Basic
AuthUserFile
/home/sites/<sitename>/users/<username>/.htpasswd
**NOTE: The AuthUserFile should the file in the
directory that you want to password protect. The above
example shows how to protect a users home page, to use
the htpasswd for all current registered RaQ 2 users
enter /etc/htpasswd for the AuthUserFile.
(Skip
step #3 if you are using the "/etc/htpasswd" file for
your authorization)
- Now we want to create the ".htpasswd" file using
the htpasswd command in the "/usr/bin/"
directory. Type:
/usr/bin/htpasswd -c
/home/sites/<sitename>/users/<username>/.htpasswd
<user name you want to add>
It
will prompt you for the password twice.
Example:
/usr/bin/htpasswd -c
/home/sites/site1/web/.htpasswd joe
Enter passwd:
******
Enter passwd again: ******
Done.
This would put the ".htpasswd" file in the Web
site's document root directory.
NOTE: when adding
additional users remove the -c (create new file
option) from the command line!
Are there any CGI scripts or programs that can do
this for me or let me or my customers manage
passwords? For
additional help and/or more user-friendly tools for
password protection, try the following list of scripts
and tools (some are free, some have a cost): Password Protection Tools.
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