Lorrie, Lets put it another way. Your account is really "rootsweb.com/freepages/community/accountname/sub-directories etc.." So when you use freepages.rootsweb.com (a sub domain of rootsweb), the next level is the "community" and that is effectively a sub domain of freepages. Its at this point the the individual accounts are created. Am I explaining it well? I think probably not, and maybe a graphic in a webpage might be the answer. There may already be one out there. Pat Asher might be able to help. Barry On 17/02/2011 10:18 a.m., Lorrie Laskey wrote: > Barry, > > I understand. I guess I am not asking the question correctly because I > am not getting an answer. I'll try again. :-) > > Is there only one set of these directories such as misc, computers, > history, military and such and they are used by all accounts? Or does > each account, my docex account, have their own set of these very same > directories? > > I am not quite understanding how an account holder can choose to upload > an web page, say index.html, to a directory outside of their account > without some connection to that account holder's account? > > Lorrie > > On 02/16/11 15:09, Barry Carlson wrote: >> Lorrie, >> >> Each ~account is a sub directory of the community being used. >> >> Barry >> >> On 17/02/2011 10:06 a.m., Lorrie Laskey wrote: >>> Barry, >>> >>> So who owns these directories? Each account holder, say my account? Or >>> is there only one misc dir, one computers and so on and they are shared >>> by all account holders? >>> >>> Lorrie >>>

At 04:29 PM 2/16/2011, Barry Carlson wrote: >Am I explaining it well? I think probably not, and maybe a graphic in a >webpage might be the answer. There may already be one out there. Pat >Asher might be able to help. Lorrie, Barry has it almost -- but not quite right. The structure of the Freepages server is somewhat unique, and it is easy to get confused. Your account ~lorrielasky (or any Freepages account) is located on a server named freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com Since there is a permanent redirect in place from rootsweb.com to rootsweb.ancestry.com, I am going to remove ancestry from the example URLs to keep them as simple as possible. Now, within your account, ~lorrielasky, you have multiple subdirectories before you yourself create and upload anything to your account. There is freepages.rootsweb.com/~lorrielasky/famiily_html/ freepages.rootsweb.com/!lorrielasky/genealogy_html/ freepages.rootsweb.com/!lorrielasky/history_html freepages.rootsweb.com/!lorrielasky/military_html freepages.rootsweb.com/!lorrielasky/misc_html etc. There are a total of 10 subdirectories in your account, and you may use any of them. Where it can be confusing is that, in order to make a Freepages account as versatile as possible, the powers that be decided to symlink all those subdirectories in each account. You can use any or all of them as unique URLs. So, when you login to your account and elect to upload a page to family_html, instead of the URL being http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~lorrielasky/family_html/yourpage.html the symlink directs it to http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~lorrielasky/yourpage.html You can also upload a page named yourpage.html to any of the other subdirectories in your account, and each will have a unique URL according to subdirectory you have selected. The Miscellaneous directory is, as Barry and others have pointed out, the root directory for your account, so if you omit a directory name from the URL, as in freepages.rootsweb.com/~lorrielasky the server will deliver freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~lorrielasky by default. Probably more than you wanted to know <g> Pat Asher