cokes wrote
CAn you make ftp work on Abyss Web Server X2 so u can have dedicated hosting? something like that
Yes you can.
You can have a configuration where users/colleagues change the web files, and upload them to the server without having physical access to it. To do so, you will need the help of an FTP server to deal with the file uploading part.
For example, let's say you have a webmaster John who hosts on your server
his web site
http://www.johnsite.com . John must register the domain
johnsite.com and make
www.johnsite.com point to your server IP address.
When setting up his site, you should create a directory in your hard drive
where
www.johnsite.com files should go (the Document Path). We will assume
you have created the directory C:\sites\johnsite . Now in Abyss Web Server
X2, you add a new host which Document Path is C:\sites\johnsite and which
host name is
www.johnsite.com.
To have John upload and update his web site files at any time, you should
install an FTP server. There are many free and good ones (for example
GuildFTPD from
http://www.guildftpd.com ). In the FTP server, all you have
to do is to declare a new user john, give him a password, and set his user
directory to C:\sites\johnsite .
The FTP server and the web server will work at the same time on the same
computer. Abyss Web Server will serve the pages requested by browsers while
the FTP server will be used by your webmasters to update the files remotely.
All John has to do is to prepare his files, to connect to
ftp://www.johnsite.com using an FTP client (there are many free FTP clients
on Windows such as FileZilla - FrontPage and other HTML editors can also
send files to an FTP server). He should use john as his username and the
password you've setup for him to log in his FTP account. Once done, he can
do what he want with his files (updating/erasing/modifying/creating
subdirectories/etc...).
This way of doing things is the same that is used by large web hosting
companies: they have the web server and an FTP server for files uploads.
