Publishing With FrontPage or FTP

The below instructions will assist you with the process of moving your newly created website and it's images from your computer to your new web hosting account

Publishing with Microsoft FrontPage

To publish your website with Microsoft FrontPage, you will select the File Publish Web option.  FrontPage will prompt you for the URL that you wish to publish your web pages to.  Be SURE to include the full URL to your domain or sub-domain.  Example - http://www.alphaone-tech.com is the correct URL format. www.alphaone-tech.com is the wrong format to use.

You will then be prompted for your user name and password.  This is the user name and password that was sent to you in your Account Activation e-mail.  Once you have correctly supplied your user name and password, you will be presented with the following screen:

On the left side of the screen is the contents of your local web site directory.  On the right is the contents of your web site on our server.

To publish your website, click the PUBLISH button.  FrontPage will automatically publish your pages to the correct directory and with the correct file permissions.

Uploading with FTP

For non-Microsoft^® FrontPage^® users, an FTP Client is the most common method of transferring your files up to the server. Following these steps will ensure that your website is uploaded and visible on our servers, and allow viewers from the outside to visit your site easily.

• Once your new account is created on our servers, you will receive an Account Activation E-Mail &  you should be ready to upload any files you have created for your website. You can start by installing and running an FTP client, such as the recommended two FTP clients, WS_FTP (for Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000 or XP users), or Fetch (for Macintosh users).

• Important Note for FrontPage users:
  Although we provide FTP access to FrontPage accounts, it is not to be used to upload your pages to your account as FTP will corrupt your FrontPage website if used. If you use FTP to modify your site (html files, etc.), you will run into errors the next time you use FrontPage to access your Web site, and the FrontPage extensions may become corrupt. Also, do not remove any files from your FrontPage account with an FTP client. The only files that you may remove with FTP are the files that you put there with FTP (cgi scripts and files in your public FTP directory).

• If your domain name is registered and fully functioning, then you can use ftp.yourdomain.com as the 'Host Name' to access your account.  You will be required to log into the server with your User Name and Password. Note also that logging in with a Web Browser, such as Netscape or Internet Explorer, will NOT give you access to the entire account. Only an FTP client will give you total access to your account space.

• You will find some files and subdirectories already present in your account space. We recommend not altering or deleting any of these subdirectories in any way (other than depositing files into them, or changing permissions). Until you upload your files, your website will appear as a directory listing. This listing will disappear when you upload your index.htm or index.html file. Your index.htm or index.html file is your 'Home' page, and any viewer who visits the site will see this file initially when entering your domain name on their browser.

• Now you can begin transferring files to the server, but please keep these points in mind when uploading:

  1. UNIX systems are case sensitive. So a file named mycustomers.txt would be a separate file from one named MYCUSTOMERS.txt. If you can't seem to find a file on the server that you just uploaded, check to see that you are using the right case.

  2. UNIX filenames also may contain almost any type of character, and sometimes this may confuse FTP clients. If you have trouble retrieving or linking to a file, try using wildcards in FTP to delete it, and replace it with a file that doesn't have spaces or other special characters in its name.

  3. Our HTTP server recognizes file formats by extension. This means a client retrieving a file named .htm or .html will be told it is in HTML format. Additionally, all files that are to be viewed in a browser must be placed in the "Public_html" directory on the iPowerWeb servers. Therefore, make sure that you have the proper extensions when uploading your files and the files are in the correct directory.

  4. CGI scripts must be in the /cgi-bin subdirectory and have file permissions set to 'executable'. Otherwise they will not run correctly.

  5. You should upload graphic files (such as .jpg or .gif files) in 'Binary' mode with FTP, and HTML or scripts in 'ASCII' mode in order to ensure that there are no extraneous 'control' characters in your scripts or pages.

  6. You may create an unlimited number of subdirectories (folders) within your account space to organize your site using the FTP command 'mkdir'. To have a page automatically load up when a browser goes to a directory, name a file index.html or index.htm (make sure its lowercase) and place it in that directory. If an index.htm or index.html file is not present, the Web browser will default to a list of all the files in that directory. This applies to the root directory as well

File Permissions

File permissions allow you and others to access each file on your site for reading, writing, and executing. CGI scripts must be made 'executable' in order to function correctly, while HTML files should be 'readable' to everyone by default.

If you need to change file permissions on a particular file or directory, follow these steps with WS_FTP for Windows:

Right click on the file which requires permission alteration. Choose 'chmod (UNIX)' and left click. A window should appear:

Click on the check box next to the what you wish to enable. Access is split into three categories:

• OWNER : you; the owner of the file.

• GROUP : all the other users on the system.

• OTHER : everyone else (people from the outside).

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