Site Manager
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.yourdomain.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://yourdomain.com/protect/protected.html)
to see if a password window is displayed.