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UPLOADING YOUR WEBPAGE TO THE INTERNETWS_FTP by Ipswitch is on the CD. To load it onto your computer just create a folder in your Program Files folder and name it WS_FTP and copy all the files in the WS_FTP folder on the CD to the WS_FTP folder you created on your hard drive. Then drag a shortcut to WS_FTP95.exe onto your desktop. Dial up your connection to the internet and click this shortcut and you get a 15 day free trial. Some configuration of the software is necessary to upload into your account. Remember, you must upload not only your HTML file but also any image files it uses and other HTML files it links to and any image files they use too to have your whole website work properly. Any links that go out to internet URL's will work without you uploading anything explicit for them.Configuring WS_FTP to your ISP's AccountYou will need to know your User ID that identifies you with your ISP, your password and the URL of your ISP. In the 'profile name' blank type anything that makes sense to you to identify this connection from any others you may later create. In the 'Host name / Address' blank type the URL of your ISP without the 'http://'. For example...www.pcisys.net. In the 'Host Type' blank choose 'automatic detect' as that works most of the time. In the 'User ID' blank type your user id and type your password in the 'password' blank. Check the box if you want it to remember the password. Leave all the other blanks blank, click apply and OK. (Of course you must be dialed in and connected to your ISP with your modem) If you don't connect call your ISP's tech support and have them help you tweak it to work. You are their customer and it's their job to help you access your account.Make sure the binary radio button is selected. On the left pane you can browse the contents of your computer. This is where you find your HTML files and any image files you need to upload. On the left pane you can browse your ISP's account for you and create directories (folders) within your main account directory and browse in and out of them if you want. By highlighting files on either side you can click the arrows in between and transfer from your computer to your ISP account (uploading) or vice versa (downloading) any HTML files or image files. A transfer will always leave a copy at the source so if you upload a file it will still reside on your computer. If you have questions call your ISP's tech support. Using Index.htmThe directory structure of your website (collection of webpages) will follow the directory structure you set up on your ISP's account. So if you upload a webpage called home.htm and your ISP is www.pcisys.net and your account name is ~joe to see your webpage live on the net you'd type in the URL...http://www.pcisys.net/~joe/home.htm If you want to shorten that URL a bit you can use the convention of HTML files named 'index.htm'. In-other-words, rename your home.htm to index.htm. The convention is that if a directory is named in a URL with no htm file specified afterwards in the URL it will automatically load any file named index.htm. (.htm can be substituted with .html as well) so if home.htm was renamed index.htm the above example URL could be shortened to... http://www.pcisys.net/~joe ...and your index.htm page would come up. Domain Nameswww.pcisys.net is the domain name of your ISP in the above example. If you want to spend the money you can lease an unused domain name of your choice and further shorten your URL. You would arrange for your ISP to host it for you and configure your FTP software to upload to that name rather than to your ISP's domain name. Then your URL would be further shortened to something like this...http://www.mydomain.com ...and your index.htm webpage would come up. |