| The Site Manager will
be a very important tool in the creation of your web site. After all
of your hard work, you will need to upload the web site to your
server space on our computers. The Site Manager is where you will
begin. It is very
important that you name your home page, the first page that you want
visitors to see when they visit your web site, to index.htm or
index.html. When a browser visits your web site by typing in your
domain name, i.e., www.your_domain.com, the browser program will
automatically search for a page titled index.htm or index.html by
default. If the browser does not find one, your visitor will not be
able to get into your web site without a specific page name to add
to the domain URL.
" Once you name your first "home" page index.html, you will need to
upload it to the www directory in your account.
To Upload to www
1. Check off the yellow folder
titled "www" and click on the link to open it. In this folder, you
will see files that have been installed to your account.
2. Click on "Browse" in the File
Upload section. Find the index.html you created for your home page.
Save as index.html and press upload. This will transfer this file
from your computer to ours.
3. You should see the index.html
file in the "www" folder above.
4. Once it is uploaded, you can
edit, rename, or delete each file you create.
5. Open up your web browser and
type in your domain name. You should see the page you created in
your browser.
6. Through this web interface,
you can click on the appropriate buttons to move, delete, and modify
files that you have created. As your web knowledge increases, you
may create more folders for better organization. The left side of
the screen controls the directories and subdirectories of your
account. The right side controls the individual files.
Password Protecting A Directory
Sometimes part of a web site will need to be password protected so
that only certain users can access it. You can create password
protection that will block access to all users except those with
passwords that you create. It is generally not a good idea to
password protect your "www" directory, because no one will be able
to access your web site.
To password
protect a directory:
1. Once you have created a
directory you want to protect, select that folder in the Site
Manager. If the directory is inside another one in the /www
directory (i.e., /www/images/secret), select the directory it is
located in and click "Open Directory". If you would like to protect
a file, click on the file name inside the folder.
2. Select the username and
password used to enter the directory. You can create several
different username/password combinations for the same directory if
you wish.
3. Click "Protect".
4. To test it, type in the path
name that you have protected (ex. http://your_domain.com/protect/protected.html)
to see if a password window is displayed.
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