WebSTAR Admin Server Settings

To open the settings window, connect to your server and choose Server Settings from the Edit menu.

To connect, see New Connection .

On the left, you'll see the Web, FTP, Mail and Proxy Settings, with disclosure triangles (like the Finder List view), and entries for the settings panels for each. If you are missing FTP, Mail, or Proxy, that Plug-In was not in the server's Plug-Ins folder when the server was launched.

The Save button at the lower right sends your changes to the WebSTAR server, which saves them in the WebSTAR Settings file.

If you close without saving, you'll get an opportunity to save changes to the server, or discard your changes.

Working With Admin Lists

Editing Entries

To make a new entry, click the New button or press Command-Plus. This will allow you to fill in the fields for this entry. To insert an entry into an existing list, select the entry before the new entry, and then click "New".
To edit an entry, click on the line to select it. As you make changes in the edit fields, they will be reflected in the list. The changes aren't saved to the server until you click the Save button.
To copy an entry, select it and choose Duplicate from the Edit menu, or option-drag the entry.
To move an entry, select it and drag it with the mouse button down. A black bar will indicate where it will be inserted.
To delete an entry, select the line and click the Delete button.

If you accidentally delete something and want to restore it, you can close the Settings window and click the Don't Save button.

Sorting Lists

You can sort the contents of many of the lists in the WebSTAR Admin: SSI Counters, FTP Users, Mail Hosts, and Mail Users & Accounts. To sort these lists, simply click on the title of the column containing the value you want to use for sorting. The data will be sorted from left to right using the standard Mac OS sorting toolkit, so numbers will go from 1 to 100 to 2 to 3 to 30 and so on.

These lists may not be stored in the sorted order, but you can control how you see them.

File Paths in WebSTAR Admin

There are several options in WebSTAR Admin that require you to specify a unique file. This file path lets the WebSTAR server locate the file properly. The Macintosh OS file path delimiter is a colon (":"), separating folder names. Paths to files end with the file name, while paths to folders end with a colon.

HTTP requests and URLs use slashes (/) as a delimiter, rather than colons.

WebSTAR Admin file paths are not case-sensitive, and they can include spaces and Macintosh extended characters.

Absolute File Paths

File paths can be absolute , starting from the name of your hard disk. In that case, they do not start with a colon, because there is no parent folder:

 

	Mac HD:WebSTAR 3.0:images:navbar.gif

 
	WebServer:WebSTAR3.0:widgets:

 
	FTP-HD:pub:human resources:

The FTP Server requires absolute file paths for the user root folders.

Relative File Paths

Some server file paths can be relative , starting from your root folder. They always start with a colon, to indicate that they are subfolders, like these:

 

	:images:navbar.gif

 
	:default.html

 
	:products:announcements:bluewidgets:version3:

Relative paths are usually used by the Web server.

Default Root Folder

The default root folder is the folder in which the active WebSTAR server application is stored. Virtual Hosts designate their own root folders, and paths for their files refer to that root: see Virtual Host Root Folders and Default Files .