How do I upload my site?

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Example: Filezilla 3 Step 1: Connecting to the server 4 Step 2: Accessing the correct folder on the server 5 Step 3: Uploading the files to the server 6 Step 4: Site should be online

[edit] Introduction

In order to put your website on line, you will need to create it on your computer and then upload it to the server. You can upload your site to the server with an FTP connection between your computer and the server.

You will need the following to establish an FTP connection to your server:

1. A hosting server to connect to. In Web Name + and Web Mail + packages, the hosting needs to be activated:
   • How do I activate my hosting space?
2. An FTP client. FTP clients are applications that will allow you to connect to an FTP server and transfer files. If you do not use one, please check the following link:
   • More info on FTP clients
3. FTP username and password. FTP access is secure and requires you to identify with login details for an existing account on the server. You will only have access to your login and password after you have activated the hosting space:
   • What are my FTP login and password?
4. Your site. We will assume that you have created your site and you have it on your computer. Make sure that your homepage is called index.html or index.htm for the server to know it is the page that should be shown by default.

[edit] Example: Filezilla

We will be using the really easy to use Filezilla in the example. Most FTP clients include the same features and, although the layout might be different, are divided in the following sections:

Login box	Here you must enter the connection details (server, login and password)
Connection output	All feedback from the connection (errors, returns from the server, ...)
Local browser	Files and folders on your computer
Server browser	Files and folders on the server
File transfer queue	Status of the requested transfers to and from the server

Filezilla will look like this:

[edit] Step 1: Connecting to the server

Once we have all the necessary information, we will be able to connect to the server, using the login box:

We will need to enter the details for our package:

• name or IP address of your FTP server
• your FTP login
• your FTP password
• port for the FTP connection. If you leave it empty it will use the default one, which should work fine.

When everything looks fine, just click on

If the connection to the server has been established correctly, the server browser will show the content of the server, which will look like this:

If the connection did not work, you will be able to find an error message on the connection output section. That will tell you what the problem is or give you information on what could be going on.

[edit] Step 2: Accessing the correct folder on the server

Once you have accessed to the server, you will see the folder structure of your hosting space:

In the Web Name + and Web Mail + packages, the FTP structure is really simple: there is a folder called Web hanging from the root, and that is the folder where we will have to upload the files to, so just double click on and that folder will be opened:

[edit] Step 3: Uploading the files to the server

To upload the files to the server, just select in the local browser and drag and drop them on the server:

The progress of the upload will be displayed on the file transfer queue:

When the transfer is finished, you will see the files on the server browser:

[edit] Step 4: Site should be online

If you have followed the steps described above, then the files should be available through your site immediately.

So, for example, if you have uploaded a folder called images with a file called background.jpg in it to the /Web folder (so the ftp path would be /Web/images/background.jpg), the file will be available at http://www.domain.co.uk/images/background.jpg.