The Site Manager will be a very important tool in the creation of your website.
After all of your hard work, you will need to upload the website 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. When a browser visits your web site by typing in your domain name, i.e., www.yourdomain.com, the browser program will automatically search for a page titled index.htm 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.htm, you will need to upload it to the main directory in your account.
To Upload to main directory (/www)
- Check off the yellow folder you would like to upload to ( IF you want to upload to a sub dir! ) and click on the link to open it. In this folder, you will see files that have been installed to this directory. If you would like to upload to your main www dir, proceed directly with step 2, without changing folders.
- Click on "Browse" in the File Upload section. Find the index.htm you created for your home page. Save as index.htm and press upload. This will transfer this file from your computer to ours.
- You should see the index.htm file in the "www" folder above.
- Once it is uploaded, you can edit, rename, or delete each file you create.
- Open up your web browser and type in your domain name. You should see the page you created in your browser.
- 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:
- Once you have created a directory you want to protect, select that folder in the Site Manager through the radio button and click the "Protect" button.
If the directory is inside another one in the /www directory (i.e., /www/secret/subdir), look for the directory name in the list and click on the directory name to open it. Now select your 'subdir' through the radio button and click the "Protect" button. - Select the username and password used to enter the directory.
You can create any number of different username/password combinations for the same directory if you wish.
Note: You can not have spaces in your username or password. "my password" won't work. You can use the underscore with "my_password" instead. - Click "Add User".
- To test it, type in the path name that you have protected (eg. http://yourdomain.com/secret/index.htm) to see if a password window is displayed.