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WWW Space Every customer gets his/her own password protected userid which is needed to access the server. By logging in with the userid, the customer gains access to their web storage space. Every userid "owns" a structure of disk subdirectories in the file system. The "root" of this structure is the "home" directory, found at path "/home/userid". Note that this is somewhat similar to the MS-DOS directory structure, except that there is no drive letter and forward slashes are used instead of backward slashes. Inside the home directory is a subdirectory named "www". Files placed in "www" are visible to remote browsers over the Internet. (When you FTP to your account, you are "logged in" to your www subdirectory.) Now that we know where the files have to be located in order to be visible on the Internet, just how do we put the files there? Although there are several ways, the most common are FTP and Telnet. The filename of your home page should be index.html (or index.htm or index.cgi). The web server will automatically send the file at path /home/userid/www/index.html when a browser specifies http://userid.com or http://www.userid.com. This means, when people go to your domain name, the first thing they'll see is your index.html page. One last thing : Log files are stored at /www/logs/: /www/logs/snoopy-access-log for snoopy.com's access log, in fact.
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