These instructions are meant
for a novice, however, please read them completely to get all the information
about where to upload your web pages, and where to get more information
on available options for your web site.
How do I Use Microsoft FrontPage 2000 to post my html files into
my Web site?
Check your web pages before uploading them to your site to make sure
they all work. You can open up your HTML file through your browser (off
your hard drive), before uploading the pages to the remote hard drive.
Once you're sure everything is working locally (your own hard drive)
it's time to publish your pages to your Web site. Microsoft FrontPage
makes this process very simple.
Make sure you have saved your web. The first page in your web
must be saved as the file "index.html" or "index.htm." Otherwise,
it will not be read as the default page, meaning people going to your domain
will get either the CoreComm default page or an error reported.
Once the web is saved, click on File, then click the option "Publish
Web." It will ask for the website location to publish to. This
is simply your domain's URL (structured like "http://www.domain.com/",
where domain.com would be replaced with whatever you domain happens to
be).
If your web space is set to support FrontPage, you should be prompted
for your user name and password. As long as you entered it correctly,
you should see signs of the file transfer. Depending on the size
of the web your are posting and the speed of your internet connection,
file transfers can be short or take a while.
If your web account does not support FrontPage, you will be met with
an error message that says something to the effect of "The server you are
publishing to does not have the FrontPage Server Extensions installed,
and therefore does not support publishing via HTTP. To continue publishing,
specify a location that will work with FTP." Do not worry.
All is not lost. FrontPage can FTP.
After clicking "OK," you should have a window where you specify the
FTP server to connect to. In this blank, the final format should
be ftp://www.[yourdomain.com]/www.[yourdomain.com]/www/. The [yourdomain.com]
should, of course, be replaced by whatever your domain happens to be, with
the proper .com, .net, .org. .whatever ending. Yes, it looks redundant.
It is due to the structure of the directory for your web space.
After inputting that info, click OK and you should be prompted for your
username and password. Use the one provided you in your welcome email
and you should find the transfer underway.
Important NOTE: The first page that the server looks for must be named
index.html (your homepage, case sensitive). Re-name your homepage to index.html
and it will be the default page that will come up if someone goes to your
site. The order of preference that the server looks for a home page is
index.html first, then index.htm, and lastly it looks for the index-default.shtml.
If none of these are present, then the access denied error appears when
a visitor goes to your domain. If more than one is present, it will
display index.html rather than index.htm, etc.
Once your entire site is uploaded to the server, go to the web address
and re-check everything. Sometimes you will have to rename some of the
files to get them to work properly. It is also common that graphic files
get corrupt as they are uploaded. If this is the case, re-upload them.
Note: As you are making corrections and uploading new, updated material,
be sure to hit Reload in your browser; otherwise the page is loading from
its cache (the browser's memory). Additionaly, you may want to clear your
cache to ensure you are loading the new file(s).
For more information on HTML programming, click here.
For more information on CGI programming, click here.
For a source of ready-made CGI scripts, click here.
