Posting Your Site
Put your site up
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Getting Started
How do I put my web site on your servers?
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a means of copying
files from one computer to another using the Internet.
Web hosting customers use FTP programs to copy their web
site files from their local computer over to their web
server. For more information on how to get and set up an
FTP client, read about SmartFTP.
I know how to FTP to my site, but where do I put my files?
When you connect to one of our servers using FTP,
you will see your root directory with various folders.
The www directory is the
directory where you will put all of your web page documents and
images.
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Your root directory is a good place to create a directory to
store your databases, if you are using any. The line
/D:/Inetpub/wwwroot/
arizonabiking.com is the full
path of your site. You will need to know this if, for
example, you are using an absolute path to access a
database. If your database is stored in a subdirectory
of your root called database, the absolute path of your
database would be D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\
arizonabiking.com\database
\db1.mdb
When you first sign up, we install a page called default.htm
in your www directory. This is the page that displays the
"Customer has not Moved in Yet" message. This page is also the
default page that is loaded from the directory. If you put
other files in with it, this page will still load by default.
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When you upload your site, you have to set your main page, which will
automatically load when someone visits your site.
You can either upload your own default.asp and overwrite ours, or delete
default.asp from the remote directory and upload your desired file.
The name of this file is very important. It must be named
one of the following: index.asp, index.htm, index.html, default.asp, default.htm,
or default.html.
If you do not have a file with any of the above names in your directory,
people will get an error message when they try to view your site. This is the
same with any directory you create in your site.
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