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Posting your Web Pages to HickoryTech Internet Servers

If you are familiar with building web pages, this guide will give you the information needed to upload your page to HickoryTech Internet using the FTP protocol. If you need help getting started with building your web page, take a look at these Web Authoring Resources.

Once you have created and organized all of your your web page files into a directory on your local computer, you are ready to upload them to your web space on the HickoryTech Internet web server. The uploading process is done with a program supporting FTP (File Transfer Protocol).

Many web page authoring packages have FTP built into their web page publishing features. You may also use a dedicated shareware FTP program such as SmartFTP, WS_FTP or LeechFTP. For the Macintosh, you may use Fetch. We recommend using a dedicated FTP program such as these because they will allow you maintain your web space by deleting, moving, and renaming your files.

Whether you use an FTP program or the publishing features of your web page authoring program, the process remains essentially the same:

For personal, non-commercial web pages provided
with your personal or non-domain account:

Organize your web page files into their own directory on your local computer
The main page of your website must be named index.html

In your FTP program enter:
     Address: ftp.hickorytech.net
     Login: Your primary login name
     Password: The password given to you when you set up your HickoryTech Internet account
When you log in via FTP, you should be placed into your directory on the server. There is a public_html directory within your directory where all of your web files should be uploaded to. Click on this folder and add all of your files here.

Test your site by visiting www.hickorytech.net/~username (username is your primary account login name). Make sure to do a <shift>-Reload in your browser after uploading to view changes to your page.

For commercial website accounts using a virtual domain name:
(www.yourdomain.com)

- FTP Method:

Your domain webspace has the following directory structure:
cgi-bin/
www/
You should upload your website files to your www directory. Any CGI scripts should be placed in your cgi-bin directory.

Please note that we have disabled the ability for CGI scripts to write back to disk for security reasons. If you need to have your CGI scripts write to files on disk, please contact us for assistance.
Organize your webpage files into their own directory on your local computer
The main page of your website must be named index.html
Transfer the files to ftp.YOURDOMAIN.com (depending on your domain name) using an FTP-capable program. Once you have logged in via FTP, change into the www directory to upload your website files.
Test the site by visiting www.YOURDOMAIN.COM. Make sure to do a <shift>-Reload in your browser after uploading to view changes to your page.

- Microsoft FrontPage98 Publishing Method:

If you are using Microsoft FrontPage with your virtual domain website, contact your web hosting company to request the Microsoft FrontPage Extensions be installed onto your web space.

Create the entire FrontPage Web on your local computer
Select File-->Publish FrontPage Web
Click on the More Webs...button
Type www.YOURDOMAIN.COM into the location prompt
Select <root web> from the list, If there are multiple webs listed, check the prompts to make sure it is the <root web> for your domain. Click O.K.
Enter your website administration login name / password when prompted.
Once publishing is completed, test the site by visiting www.YOURDOMAIN.COM. Make sure to do a <shift>-Reload in your browser after uploading to view changes to your page.

NOTE: By default, MS FrontPage may name your main website file Default.html or Index.htm. you must rename this file to index.html in the FrontPage Explorer prior to uploading. (case-sensitive)

- Microsoft FrontPage2000 Publishing Method:

Create the entire FrontPage Web on your local computer
Select File--> Publish Web
Type http://www.YOURDOMAIN.COM in the location box
Enter your website administration login name and password when prompted
Once publishing is completed, test the site by visiting www.YOURDOMAIN.COM. Make sure to d a <shift>-Reload in your browser after uploading to view changes to your page.