FTP

Uploading Your Web Pages

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Uploading files to your Virtual Server is quite easy, but there are a few things you need to remember. Once you have mastered these simple techniques you will be able to add any files you want to your Virtual Server.

Your Home Pages and CGI scripts can be produced on your local machine and then the finished product can be uploaded to your Virtual Server.

You will also find that you can download files such as your FormMail file and certain configuration files. This will allow you to make changes on your local pc, then reload the files to your Virtual Server.

Here are the simple steps you can take:

1. If you use windows, we have found WS_FTPLE to be very useful. For you Mac Die-hards, try Fetch. You can visit Tucows to acquire FTP software.
2. Connect to your Virtual Server via FTP using your login id, and your login password. Do not login as anonymous, as you will not have access to the directories and files you need.
3. When you login to your site, you will be at your home directory. This is the same directory you find yourself in when you telnet to your site.
4. To upload your files, go to your HTDOCS directory and upload your homepage, it must be saved as index.html or index.html.This is the default page that comes up when "http://www.yourname.com" is entered in a browser. You can create directories under the HTML directory to organize your files. To access files in other directories be sure to include the file path.
   If you have images .gif,.jpg files on your index.html page that are stored in a directory called "gifs" that you created, you need to add the path in your html code in order for it to work.

   Example: ../gif/"yourimage.gif"

   Be sure you FTP all your Web Page files, as well as any text files such as cgi script source code in ASCII format! All your image files need to be FTP'd in BINARY format.

5. If you FTP a file called test.htm to your HTML directory, it will be accessed by the address http://www.yourname.com/test.htm

   If you make a directory called documents below the HTML directory, and FTP a file called info.html to that directory, it will be accessed by the address http://www.yourname.com/documents/info.html

6. Those are the simple steps to FTP. If you have further questions, send email to support@compu-wise.com

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