Uploading Web Files

These instructions assume that you already have your HTML and image files created and ready-to-go, and that you have an FTP program and are familiar with how to use it. Good FTP programs include WS_FTP and CuteFTP for Windows, and Fetch for the Mac.

In order to enable your website on www.lionking.org, you need to set up your public_html directory. You can do this one of two ways: 1) Through an FTP program, or 2) from a telnet shell.

1. Via FTP: Connect to the server www.lionking.org with your FTP program, using your username and password, and leaving all the other fields as the default values. When you connect, you should see a list of files such as .cshrc, .login, and so on.
   Tell your FTP program to "Create New Directory". This command might vary slightly from one program to another, but it should be easy enough to find. Use it to create a directory called public_html. Make sure that's an underscore in the middle, not a dash or a space.

2. Via telnet: Connect to the server www.lionking.org, using your username and password. At the {lionking:1} prompt, type: mkdir public_html
   Then, you can exit by typing logout.

   By the way... don't even think about asking me if lionking.org has the Microsoft FrontPage extensions installed. Asking such a thing implies that I'm both an irresponsible administrator unconcerned with security as well as a thoughtless, unethical minion.

Now you're ready to upload your files. If you've still got your FTP program open, double-click on the public_html directory to change into it. Now, make sure your transfer mode is set to "Text" or "ASCII" for HTML files, and "binary" for images or other binary data; then, either drag your files to the remote server, or use the program's upload function.

Tip: Your main page (or "home page") should be called index.html, or index.ext, where ext is any extension-- .htm, .shtml, .HTM, .cgi, or even .gif or .jpg. :) If you name your page like that, your address will simply be http://www.lionking.org/~username; you don't need to specify any filenames after your username.

Another Tip: When referring back to your main page from another page, you don't need to say <A HREF="index.html"> in your code. You can use simply <A HREF="">, and it will work just fine-- not to mention keeping your Address line looking cleaner. Similarly, from a subdirectory of public_html, you can refer back to the main page with <A HREF="..">.

Once your public_html directory is set up, there's a shortcut you can use if all you're doing is uploading files, and not moving them around or renaming them or creating new directories. (For that, you'll need your full-featured FTP program.)

In Netscape, enter the following URL:

ftp://username@www.lionking.org

The server will prompt you for your password, and then you'll get a file listing. Click on public_html to change into that directory, and then you can drag any files into the Netscape window to upload them to the server. You can bookmark the FTP address above to give yourself quick access.

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