How do I set up a personal home page?
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Personal home pages are free of charge on our system, but are subject to
the following restrictions:

* Commercial content is forbidden.  This includes anything intended to
  promote a business or product, or otherwise generate profit.  If you wish
  to set up a commercial page, please contact our associates at net.f/x
  (745-7666).  We periodically review all personal pages to ensure they
  have no commercial content.

* A maximum of 10 megabytes of disk space may be used in total (graphics,
  text, and other files).  Additional space may be purchased at the rate of
  $2.00 (plus HST) per megabyte per month.

* Technical support on free personal web pages is minimal (that's why
  they're free :-).  If you are not familiar with the concepts of HTML
  file creation, using telnet, uploading files via ftp, or setting file 
  permissions in a Unix environment, we suggest you seek the assistance of
  a friend who is comfortable doing this.  If you require detailed
  technical help with your personal page, our regular labour rate of $50
  per hour applies.

* You may also bring your page to us on diskette for a free one-time setup,
  but regular labour rates would apply for any update, modification or
  maintenance of the page by us beyond this.  Please test your pages for
  valid HTML coding, and be sure that none of your links are pointing to
  local files on your hard disk (ie. with a drive letter).  Also note that
  Unix is very case-sentitive.  Mixed upper- and lower-case filenames which
  work interchangeably in HTML files under DOS/Windows are considered
  separate, unique filenames under Unix and will cause problems on web pages.

* CGI scripts are not permitted on free personal pages.  If you want a hit
  counter on your page, paste in this HTML code:

     This page has been accessed
     <IMG ALIGN=ABSMIDDLE
     SRC="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=username.dat|dd=B|ft=0|tr=N|pad=0">
     times.<BR>

  and replace "username" with your account name or other unique word.
  Contact technical support to have this file created for you in our
  cgi-bin directory.

* Personal home pages will have the URL   http://www.nfld.com/~username
  if you use the file name index.html for your main page.                                                              

Here's the procedure:

1. Use ftp to connect to public.nfld.com with your username (no S or P at the
   beginning) and password, and create a subdirectory called public_html in
   your home directory (ie. /users/public/username/public_html).  Accounts
   created after January 1998 will already have this in place.  Transfer your
   files into this directory.

2. Start your telnet client and log in to public.nfld.com with your username
   (no S or P at the beginning) and password.  In order to let the web server
   see your page, change the access permissions of your files and directories
   from your home directory by typing the following:

                   chmod 644 public_html/*.*
                   chmod 755 public_html
                   chmod 711 .
                             ^ (note the dot here)

3. Your page should now be up and running.