How Do I find the exact path to a folder

**allthewhile** · April 29th, 2004, 2:29 PM

Hello,

I'm trying to install a calendar script on my new surpass site.

http://www.duboisacademy.org

I have a few questions about the servers that I thought I'd ask on here instead of bogging down the support tickets.

1. Do I have to put cgi files in the cgi bin for them to work?
2. How do I find the exact server path to the following folder:

http://www.duboisacademy.org/calendar/theme/

I was told that I should do it through "shell access" as trying to "pwd" in an ftp program could be misleading. Do I have this access and how do I go about doing it if I do.

Thanks in advance for any help given.

-jayson

**miakeru** · April 29th, 2004, 2:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by allthewhile

Hello,

I'm trying to install a calendar script on my new surpass site.

http://www.duboisacademy.org

I have a few questions about the servers that I thought I'd ask on here instead of bogging down the support tickets.

1. Do I have to put cgi files in the cgi bin for them to work?
2. How do I find the exact server path to the following folder:

http://www.duboisacademy.org/calendar/theme/

I was told that I should do it through "shell access" as trying to "pwd" in an ftp program could be misleading. Do I have this access and how do I go about doing it if I do.

Thanks in advance for any help given.

-jayson

1) No.
2) /home/yourusername/public_html/calendar/theme/

Where yourusername is equal to the login you enter for cPanel.

**allthewhile** · April 29th, 2004, 3:19 PM

Thanks, it worked!

Do I have "shell access" to the server?

If so How, how do I do this?

**patrickb** · April 29th, 2004, 3:24 PM

No, we don't allow shell access to the servers. Figuring out the directory that a file is located in is simple enough though.

Its always going to start with /home/username/public_html/ (replace username with your username of course). So if you have a file at http://domain.com/test/file.html/ the path to the file would be /home/username/public_html/test/file.html

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allthewhile Surpass Fan Seasoned Poster Joined in Apr 2004 38 posts Gave thanks: 0 Thanked 0 times	How Do I find the exact path to a folder Hello, I'm trying to install a calendar script on my new surpass site. http://www.duboisacademy.org I have a few questions about the servers that I thought I'd ask on here instead of bogging down the support tickets. 1. Do I have to put cgi files in the cgi bin for them to work? 2. How do I find the exact server path to the following folder: http://www.duboisacademy.org/calendar/theme/ I was told that I should do it through "shell access" as trying to "pwd" in an ftp program could be misleading. Do I have this access and how do I go about doing it if I do. Thanks in advance for any help given. -jayson

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patrickb the one who was Super #1 Joined in Jul 2003 Lives in Memphis 1,967 posts Gave thanks: 0 Thanked 3 times	No, we don't allow shell access to the servers. Figuring out the directory that a file is located in is simple enough though. Its always going to start with /home/username/public_html/ (replace username with your username of course). So if you have a file at http://domain.com/test/file.html/ the path to the file would be /home/username/public_html/test/file.html __________________ Patrick Warnings: The program(s) might crash unexpectedly or behave otherwise strangely. (But of course, so do many commercial programs on Windows.) --www.gimp.org

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allthewhile Surpass Fan Seasoned Poster Joined in Apr 2004 38 posts Gave thanks: 0 Thanked 0 times	Thanks, it worked! Do I have "shell access" to the server? If so How, how do I do this?

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