Full Skyway Support Library
Covid-19 Survival Tools from Skyway
To support you and to help limit the spread of the coronavirus, we are committed to providing tools to enable remote employees and contractors to continue to work productively. COVID-19: Customer Installs, Essential Services and Faster Uploads Already have Skyway...
Urgent April Maintenance
April 26, 2018 Ongoing work to update customer premise routers continues. Rolling updates will be seen for some services. Expected outage will be brief and occur after 10 or 11 pm for most customers. We also performed some minor adjustments of our fiber core routing...
Uploading Your Files (FTP)
Once you have created your Web site, you will need to transfer your HTML documents and graphics files to Skyway West's web server. File Transfer Protocol's (FTP) job is to move files from one computer to another. It doesn't matter where the two computers are located,...
Web Server Environment
Our Virtual Web Site and Managed and Unmanaged Virtual Web Servers all include: - Fedora Core 5 operating system - Apache web server 2.0.54 - PHP 5.0.4 - FTP using vsftpd 2.0.3 - FTP user name and login for uploading web pages and files - .htaccess file support -...
Domain Registration and Hosting Rates
Skyway West will register the domain name of your choice and provide you a login account to manage it. Domain renewal will be billed to the registrant directly by the registrar of our choice. There are currently 94 different extensions (e.g., .ca, .co, .com, .net,...
Web Statistics and Search Engines
Web Statistics A few days AFTER uploading your files to your web site you can access your web site's daily Web Statistics by visiting http://www.yourdomain.com/stats/ (note trailing forward slash). You will need to login with your web site User and Password to access...
Uploading Scripts and PDF Files
SCRIPTS Perl CGI programs should end with .cgi or .pl and the first line should read: #!/usr/bin/perl -T They should be uploaded to the /cgi-bin directory of your virtual server. Note that this is NOT the same as /html/cgi-bin. There is a separate directory for...
ADSL Troubleshooting
What is wrong? Can you browse www.skywaywest.com? If YES your modem/router is connected to the Internet. Go to Step 4. If NO go to Step 2. Can you browse www.skywaywest.com but not some other specific web site? Either the server you are attempting to access is slow or...
Security Notices
These two sites are an excellent reference for security alerts and links to security updates. US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), a partnership between the Department of Homeland Security and the public and private sectors. Mandated to protect the US...
Customer Internet Security
BASIC REQUIREMENTS An Internet Firewall reduces the risk of having your computer broken into and used, without your knowledge, to attack other computers, distribute spam, pornography, etc. The "hacker" who breaks into your computer could also look at the files on your...