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Home > Support > Upload Your Web Site
If you are not familiar with FTP we recommend you read our "Introduction to FTP" information as a brief overview before proceeding.
Once your account is established, it is very easy to manage
your Web site with a publishing tool. The following example
illustrates the use of WS_FTP (http://www.ipswitch.com)
as it is a very useful tool for general FTP usage. Keep in
mind many publishing tools such as Dreamweaver or Microsoft
FrontPage have inherent FTP capabilities so it is best to
check the documentation of your tool on usage. The default
subdirectory when logging on with FTP is a directory called
"html".
When using WS_FTP, much like your email program connects to
retrieve email from an email server your FTP program must
connect to an FTP server to send and receive files. If your
domain name is mydomain.com, your ftp server is prefixed with
"ftp" to give you a server name of ftp.mydomain.com.
To start using WS_FTP, you should create a profile which reflects
all the appropriate settings. You can click on the "New"
button and then enter the following information:
Profile Name: This is the description which describes
your connection (i.e. "My Web Site").
Host name: This is the ftp server name (i.e. ftp.mydomain.com
in above example).
Host type: You should set this to "Automatic
detect" for best results.
User ID: This is your login account. This information
is case-sensitive.
Password: This is the password for your User ID.
Account: This field can remain empty.
Remote host: This is the directory name where you
want to start from. If you want to go directly to your web
site, be sure to enter "html" in this field.
Local PC: This is the directory you start from on
your PC. Set this to be the directory where your Web site
resides on your computer.
Finally, click the "Save" button and click "Ok"
to establish the connection to the server. If successful,
you should see your local PC files in the small window to
the left and your Web site files in the window to the right.
The buttons in the middle allow you to transfer files to and
from your PC. Keep in mind that if you should use ASCII mode
for text files and BINARY mode for images files, zip files,
or PDF files. If in doubt about which format to use it is
probably best to use binary mode.
The default page for your web site should be called index.html
or index.htm. This should be located directly underneath your
main "html" subdirectory. In general, any directories
you create should also have index.html or index.htm files.
All file names are case-sensitive so if you upload an index.html
file you should not try using your browser to go to "http://www.mydomain.com/INDEX.HTML".
It is probably always best to use lowercase names for all
your files.
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