Uploading Your Website

Support: Uploading Your Website

Uploading your site using FTP 

You will need the following information whether or not you use FTP or a built-in uploading feature in your software program.

Your FTP (or host) address: yoursite.com (substitute your website)
Or *Use your provided IP address if your domain has not yet resolved to our servers.

Your login: (supplied when your received your account information)
Your password: (supplied when your received your account information)
Directory or folder to upload into: public_html

*All of your files and sub-directories go into your public_html directory.

FTP Programs
There are several ways depending on your computer system, that you can transfer files to your account directory. The process by which files are transferred to the web-server is called "FTP" (File Transfer Protocol).

You have unlimited access via FTP 24 hours a day. As such, you can create and maintain your web pages on your own computer and upload files to your web site at your leisure.

To upload your files to your account without using the File Manager in Your Control Panel, You need an FTP program.

For the PC users, visit: http://www.wsftp.com to download the newest version of WS_FTP LE for the PC, one of the most popular FTP programs on the web.

For the Macintosh, a program called "Fetch" is used. Visit:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/pages/softdev/fetch.html to download the newest version of Fetch.

After that point, you may use ftp.yourdomainname.com . The FTP client will also ask for a Username or Login Name and Password (make sure that Anonymous is not checked and Host Type selected is UNIX STANDARD), both of which are above.

Once logged in, you will see several directories, cgi-bin, ftp, and public_html. If you have any scripts such as CGI's that need to be executable, place them in the cgi-bin directory. In your HTML, link to files in this directory by /cgi-bin/filename.cgi. For more info in CGI see the support page.

REMEMBER: When uploading files.
ASCII vs. Binary

  • Text based files get sent in ascii mode (.txt, .doc, .html, .htm, .shtm, .cgi, etc.)
  • Non-text based files are binary mode (.jpg, .gif, .exe, .mdb, .zip, pdf, .doc, ect...)

Naming your first page
 This is the order in which the web server looks for a page to put up as the "home" page:

default.htm -> index.phtml -> index.pht -> index.cgi -> index.shtml -> index.html -> welcome.cgi -> welcome.html -> index.htm

Most common first page or main is "index.htm" or "index.html".  Be sure to name your main page properly.

Using your File Manager in your control panel to upload files.
Unless you have or will be utilizing Frontpage Extensions on your site, You can use the File Manager located in Your Control Panel to view all the directories and files in your account, as well as change permissions for directories and files, create directories, create and edit files, and upload files from your hard drive to your account.  

*To view your site before your domain registration/transfer has been completed use the following method.

http://YourIpAddress/~username/filename.htm

*Sustitute Your Provided IP address.
*Substitute your provided Username (not your domain name)
*Substitute your filename.htm with the file you uploaded (ex. index.htm)

*All of your files and sub-directories go into your public_html directory.