Madasafish Questions/answers (merged threads)

deefadog

Got home, pluged in and away we go only getting 1.8MB at the moment, but hopefully that will change over the testing period!

I only ordered last friday and the following Thursday i am up and running :T

Madasafish_Customer_Care

Whhheeeey heeeeeey :j

Even though your service is live now I hope that you'll still keep in touch when you've got a question about our service.

Kind regards,
Samara

deefadog

Yes no problem, i have one question, i know you get a free domain name of your choice, but how do i find the info on my web space and do i have a free madsafish email service?

Also i already have my own domain names, can i point these to my account?

Thanks in advance

Madasafish_Customer_Care

Hi Deefadog,

After you sign up, you can claim your domain name through My Account. To log into My Account, please go to our homepage and you'll see it as a menu item on the top red menu bar. Once in the secure My Account area click on the Internet Tab and you'll see it there. If your existing domain name ends in .co.uk, me.uk or .org.uk we can host this for you as the domain name that comes with your account. You'll need to get the tags on your domain name switched to Madasafish. When they have, simply contact care@madasafish.com and say something along the lines of:

"I have changed the tags on my domain name to Madasafish, could you please associate it with my account, username: X"

You get free webspace with us and here is a link to the general FTP information.

You also get free email with us - you can use the Webmail facility on our homepage and you can set up your Madasafish email in conjunction with Outlook Express or Apple Mail.

I get asked this a lot - here are the general POP3 settings:

Incoming (POP3) mail server: mail.madasafish.com
Outgoing (SMTP) mail server: mail.madasafish.com

Please do keep posting should you have any further queries.

Kind regards,
Samara

roses

Hi Samara, I am going to be moving out of my house soon. My housemate wants to keep the broadband connection. Is it possible to transfer the account to her name? I thought her name was used at sign up but it appears her name is only the logon username and it is my name which is used for the account details!

Madasafish_Customer_Care

Hi Roses,

Could you please PM me your username and I can look into it!

Kind regards,
Samara

roses

PM sent

Tv_Junky

I am testing my webpage, experimenting with the "Web Page Hit Counters" facility, excuse my novice approach, but I have a few queries:

The Maaf "Web Page Hit Counters" help file suggests:

st means start, that is start the counter with this value. st is only significant if you compiled the program with -DALLOW_FILE_CREATION. If you compiled with this option, the datafile will be created to the directory defined by DataDir in the config.h file and 5 will be written to it. This option is new in this release.

I am a novice in HTML, but using WS_FTP95 LE I log in to my http://www.users.madasafish.com/~username/Test directory and have a test "index.htm"

which includes the line
<img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?ft=9|frgb=69;139;50|tr=0|trgb=0;0;0|wxh=15;20|md=6|dd=A|st=1|sh=1|df=~username.dat"

with ~username edited accordingly.


1. This works correctly for my /Test/index.htm page, and increments, But how is possible to reset a page hit count to zero for the page or any given webpage?

It appears there is to only one "Hit Counter" for my site and it increments whether I place the index in my top level / directory or my /Test/ directory and will increment each time whichever file is addressed!!
Can other users confirm this?


2. Is it indeed possible to have a unique "Hit Counter" for any given page?

3. Can I reset the "Hit Counter" to zero at any desired time?

3. How do I find my "DataDir" and "config.h" or use the "-DALLOW_FILE_CREATION" to reset any page hit for any given web page?

4. Where is the "df=data file" containing the counter number which is referenced as described in the help: ~username.dat?

Any experienced Madasafish users out there that can help with my queries

Regards in advance.....Mike

Ian_(Madasafish)

Hi Mike,

Samara asked me to look at your query, as it's more my field.

Tv_Junky wrote:

I am testing my webpage, experimenting with the "Web Page Hit Counters" facility, excuse my novice approach, but I have a few queries:

The Maaf "Web Page Hit Counters" help file suggests:

st means start, that is start the counter with this value. st is only significant if you compiled the program with -DALLOW_FILE_CREATION. If you compiled with this option, the datafile will be created to the directory defined by DataDir in the config.h file and 5 will be written to it. This option is new in this release.

Yes, the counter help is a little archaic, isn't it? I'll see if I can get that improved.

To answer your questions:

Tv_Junky wrote:

1. This works correctly for my /Test/index.htm page, and increments, But how is possible to reset a page hit count to zero for the page or any given webpage?

It appears there is to only one "Hit Counter" for my site and it increments whether I place the index in my top level / directory or my /Test/ directory and will increment each time whichever file is addressed!!
Can other users confirm this?

This is the intended behaviour: you only have one counter data file for your site, so it gets updated every time your counter link is accessed.

Tv_Junky wrote:

2. Is it indeed possible to have a unique "Hit Counter" for any given page?

Nope. See above.

Tv_Junky wrote:

3. Can I reset the "Hit Counter" to zero at any desired time?

You can't, but we can. If you give the call centre a ring, they have a tool that can set your counter to any arbitrary value. Or let me know in this thread and I'll do it.

Tv_Junky wrote:

3. How do I find my "DataDir" and "config.h" or use the "-DALLOW_FILE_CREATION" to reset any page hit for any given web page?

These are all compile options related to the counter program and are only accessible to the MAAF sys admins. They really shouldn't be in the help file, so I will get them removed.

Tv_Junky wrote:

4. Where is the "df=data file" containing the counter number which is referenced as described in the help: ~username.dat?

It's in a directory on the web server you have no access to, but as I mentioned above, this stuff isn't meant user accessible.

Tv_Junky wrote:

Any experienced Madasafish users out there that can help with my queries

Regards in advance.....Mike

Hope all that helps. The counter is quite basic, and whilst you can change its appearance, you can only have one. If you need several on different pages, you might want to use ours for one page, and one of the freely available web based ones for the others.

Just shout if you need more info!

Ian.

deefadog

Damn it, all was going well, until we had a power cut yesterday and the computer and router were on, once power was resumed and i started it all back up The Local area connection can not find an IP address!

I have treied everthing and i can't get a connection, any help on this please?

Thanks