PHP and FTP
tips and tricks.
(Legacy PHP accounts)
The facts:
Current Road Runner subscribers may have already signed up for an existing PHP
account either through home.divisionname.rr.com/
or home.test-afl.tulix.com/
former Adelphia customers may have an existing account at home.roadrunner.com. Road Runner will no
longer provide PHP accounts through the home.divisionname.rr.com or home.test-afl.com sites. Customers who
currently have their PHP accounts through these servers will need to migrate their account to home.roadrunner.com.
Customers who already have their PHP account on home.roadrunner.com will not be affected.
All new customers will only have the option of setting up PHP through the Transmedia PHP located at http://home.rr.com.
Who is who?
The easiest way to tell where a customer has their current PHP account created
at is to simply ask for their home page URL. See below list for admin
site list for each of the existing account types. This is where customers will
need to go to reset their passwords. If customers have issues resetting their
passwords, then MODs may be able to assist with resetting the password for the
customer.
Customer’s
webpage address Customer’s
admin page (where they can edit their webpage)
http://home.divisionname.rr.com/username = http://home-admin.rr.com/
Click here to have the
password emailed to the customer’s master email account.
http://home.test-afl.tulix.com/username = http://home-admin.rr.com/
Click here to have the
password emailed to the customer’s master email account.
http://home.roadrunner.com/~username
= home.roadrunner.com
Click here
to have the password emailed to the customer’s master email account.
What is FTP?
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a network protocol used to transfer data from
one computer to another through a network such as the Internet.
What is an FTP Client?
An FTP client is an application that allows moving, deleting, or changing files
between a local computer and a remote FTP server over a network.
The following are all ways to FTP between a customer’s computer and
home.roadrunner.com, Tulix, or
home.divisionname.rr.com. (home.rr.com does not allow
FTP)
- Internet Explorer
- Dos Prompt
- dedicated FTP client.
- WS_FTP trial only.
Windows only
Link - Fetch Trial only.
MAC only
Link - FileZilla free. Windows, MAC,
and Linux Link - Cute FTP Trial only.
Windows and MAC Link
Click HERE for common
FTP screenshots.
Below is a list of FTP
information needed for each of the current PHP sites:
http://home.divisionname.rr.com/username
FTP client information:
Host Name: home.divisionname.rr.com
Username: account name (this is separate from the Master email
account and may be different)
Password: acct. Password (This is made by the customer and is
also separate from their email)
Internet Explorer URL:
ftp://home.divisionname.rr.com (enter username and password at prompt) or
ftp://username:password@home.divisionname.rr.com (this will log in without
prompt)
(In IE7 select page and Open FTP Site in Windows Explorer to get a folder view)
http://home.test-afl.tulix.com/username
FTP client information:
Host Name: home.test-afl.tulix.com
Username: account name (this is separate from the Master email
account and may be different)
Password: acct. Password (This is made by the customer and is
also separate from their email)
Internet Explorer URL:
ftp://username@home.test-afl.tulix.com (enter username and password at prompt)
(In IE7 select page and Open FTP Site in Windows Explorer to get a folder view)
http://home.roadrunner.com/username
FTP client information:
Host Name: home.roadrunner.com
Username: account name (this is separate from the Master email
account and may be different)
Password: acct. Password (This is made by the customer and is
also separate from their email)
Internet Explorer URL:
ftp://home.roadrunner.com (enter username and password at prompt) or
ftp://username:password@home.roadrunner.com (this will log in without prompt)
(In IE7 select page and Open FTP Site in Windows Explorer to get a folder view)
http://home.rr.com
FTP client information:
Not able to use FTP.
Login and create pages through home.rr.com.
(WYSIWYG what you see is what you get PHP site. Pages must be created and
maintained through this site)
Customer: What’s my address?
To load the web pages that are on the FTP server you need to understand the
basic rules of a web browser.
If your main web page’s name is index.htm
or index.html then you don’t need to specify
the name of the page you are trying to load. An example of this would be
google.com. The actual address of Google.com’s home
page is google.com/index.html, but
since the main page is named index.html
the browser will load this page by default.
If files are placed into another folder, then you would have to add the folder
name to the address. An example of this would be Google’s home pages google.com/ig
I have a page hosted on home.roadrunner.com/~dmccoy
and since the page is named index.html you don’t need to type home.roadrunner.com/~dmccoy/index.html
even though these point to the same directions.
On this same FTP server I have a folder named PICS
and inside the PICS folder there is another folder named Client and inside this
folder there is a picture named Image2.jpg. To load this picture in Internet Explorer
I would need to name the entire path home.roadrunner.com/~dmccoy/PICS/Client/Image2.jpg.
By listing the entire path and name of the picture I can display just that
picture inside of IE. This is how people get their pictures on sites like Ebay.
