Welcome to your own Hawkeye site!

This is the first of a set of sample pages that demonstrate the features of the Hawkeye server. These pages are not designed to look pretty, but to be easy to understand and to modify. Once you have learned how Hawkeye works, you can modify any of this pages and make them suit your needs. Always remember: this is not what a Hawkeye site 'looks like', but merely a demonstration what you can do with Hawkeye.

If you have not already done so, please check the online documentation for more detailed information about Hawkeye's features and abilities. But first, you may just want to take a look what's going on here... If you are asked for a password, you can start with one of the two pre-defined users (be sure to change their passwords soon!):

Default users
Login Password Description
user hawkeye A sample user. May visit the member's areas, read and write emails and news messages. Has access to the default chat room.
admin hawkeye The system administrator. Can do whatever he or she wants. :-)

These sample pages come with a pre-defined Hawkeye database which includes a couple of discussion groups and chat boards. All in all, you have small but working system, which you can modify as you wish. Otherwise, you might choose to delete the sample pages once you have had a look, and start from scratch. The pre-defined directory structure looks like this (everything can be changed by using the administration tools):

/
The root directory of the web server is accessible to anyone (only read access, of course). This means, you do not have to be a registered user to see and download the start pages of this system.

/admin
Here are the system administrator tools which help you to set up and configure the Hawkeye server to suit your needs. Nearly every aspect of the system can be customized here. Of course, access to this directory is restricted to members of the group System Administrators.

/mail
Web pages for accessing Hawkeye's mail database, i.e. read and write email.

/news
Web pages for accessing Hawkeye's news database. Some sample newsgroups are pre-defined, you can always add more as you like.

/chat
The chat boards. Again, you are free to add more of them using the adminstrator tools.

/status
Status Web pages for Hawkeye's internal functions. If you want to customize the replies Hawkeye generates when executing one of its internal functions, you can modify and/or add status messages here.

/images
This directory holds some small bullets and graphics needed by the pages.

/files
These are your file areas, where your users can store and retrieve files. The directory contains subdirectories for each area, as well as the HTML interface for searching the file areas. There are a few pre-defined file areas, you can modify them as you wish.

/incoming
This is the place where users should store their uploads. By submitting the registration form (found in the file area's pages) an upload placed here can be inserted into any of your file areas.

/user
By default, this is where your user's home pages are created, if you allow them to do so. Please consult the online documentation for details about this feature. The sample pages contain home pages for both the system administrator as well as the test user.

Oops, we are sorry if this was quite a lot of information. Just relax, and then take a look what else can be found here...


Hawkeye Sample Pages
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