UPLOADING FILES:

Connecting via FTP:
The standard means available to upload files to your website is the internet's File Transfer Protocol (FTP). With FTP you will use a program called an FTP Client to transfer files from your home computer to the webserver on which your website is hosted. Many filemanagers and webbrowsers provide some level of FTP Client functionality, such as Windows Explorer and Netscape, but we recommend you use a specialized FTP Client program in order to avoid confusing abstractions and limitations common of filemanagers and webbrowsers. A good example of a specialized FTP Client is CuteFTP which we have documented the use of in our support section.

When your website hosting has been setup, you will be given an IP Address, a Username and a Password. This is the information you need to access to your website hosting space via FTP. Connect to the ip address given, or simply the fullname of your website, and login with the username and password. Once logged in you will be able to upload, rename, delete, and download files.

Directory Structure:
In order for the webserver to serve your files correctly, you must put them in the right place. Once you've logged in you will have a small directory tree which you can navigate. It will look something like this:

	/
	/www/
	/www/pages/		[web pages directory]
	/www/pages/stats/	[website statistics directory]
	/www/scripts/		[cgi scripts directory]

All of your web pages, images, and other files you want people to access from your website must go into the /www/pages/ directory. That directory is your DocumentRoot. That means, when someone access a file on your website, the Root of their request will be relative to this directory. For example the file

	/www/pages/links.html

will be accessible from your website via the URL

	http://www.yourwebsite.com/links.html

You can also create deeper directories beneath your DocumentRoot and access those directories and files within them from the website. For example the file

	/www/pages/myfiles/links.html

will be accessible from your website via the URL

	http://www.yourwebsite.com/myfiles/links.html

Your website statistics directory is not meant for you to access and change. It is where your webalizer statistics are held. They are automatically generated every night for the previous day. We have documentation on the reports generated on the support section of our website. You can access your statistics via the URL

	http://www.yourwebsite.com/stats/

Index files:

An index file is sort of the coverpage of your website. When a person accesses your website by domain alone (http://www.yourwebsite.com/) they will actually get your index page. You can have an index page for every directory in your website. The index page is identified by its name. The webserver will look for one of a list of indexpage filenames, the most important of which is the name "index.html". For example, when someone access the URL

	http://www.yourwebsite.com/

they will actually be accessing the file

	/www/pages/index.html

when someone access the URL

	http://www.yourwebsite.com/myfiles/

they will access the file

	/www/pages/myfiles/index.html

If that file does not exist, they will either see an index of the files in that directory or they will receive an error.

CGI AND DYNAMIC WEBSITES:
For support with CGI and dynamic websites, please contact us directly.