User`s guide

Customizing the VBN web site 10-11
Software Release 2.30 YesWare Applications User’s Guide 08-01016-01
Procedure 10-1
Creating the custom VBN web site
Use this procedure to create the custom VBN web site.
Requirements
This procedure requires the following:
• basic knowledge of ftp commands
• ftp client computer with network access to the YWS
• knowledge of web page construction and design
ftp commands
The following ftp commands are useful in this procedure:
• binary: Changes the ftp data transfer mode to the required binary mode.
• cd: Changes the target directory on the remote system
• ls: List file contents of current directory.
• mget: allows retrieval of multiple files on the remote system. For example,
mget *.vbn will retrieve all VBN pages in the directory
• mput: allows placing of multiple files on the remote system (YWS).
• prompt: allows system to prompt before retrieving/deleting files. Default
setting is "on," so enter this command only if you want to turn prompting
off.
Enter help in ftp for a list of all available ftp commands.
Action
Step Action
1 Start the ftp client application.
2 Open a connection to the YWS using port 22221
. After a few moments, the
The system then prompts for a "User:" login.
Note: Some workstation platforms (such as Windows NT) may require
reconfiguration of ftp settings to use port 22221.
3 At the User:
prompt, enter vbn-user. The system then prompts for a
password.
Note: Be certain to enter "vbn
-user" and not "ftp-user." The ftp-user login is
used only for retrieving SDR logs as described in Chapter 8.
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