Copying Web content to your site

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After you have created your content files, you can publish them by copying them from your computer to your site. You place your content files in the directory or folder named html, which is located on your site in the var/www directory. The path to the directory is var/www/html.

To copy files from your computer to your site, you can use any of the following methods. Click any of the following links to learn more about the method.

- The File Manager section of the Site Administrator control panel

- An FTP connection

- FrontPage, a program you can use to edit and publish HTML files

- Note: Before you publish content, decide which method you want to use to copy your files to your site. You should avoid going back and forth between these methods because each method manages files, users, and directories differently.

# The Site Administrator File Manager

This is the section of the control panel you use to manage the files and directories on your site. When you use this method, you drill down to the appropriate directory, /var/www/html, then browse to the files on your computer and copy them from your computer to that directory.

- Important: If you are uploading files from a Microsoft Windows system, be aware that the File Manager performs binary transfers; that is, it does not convert Windows text format to UNIX text format. HTML files will not be affected; however, scripts might not work properly when transferred. To ensure that scripts work properly, use an FTP connection to upload script files, rather than the File Manager.

Learn more about using the File Manger

# An FTP connection

When you use this method, you use the FTP (File Transfer Protocol) service to connect to your site and copy the files to the /var/www/html directory.

Learn more about FTP connections

# Microsoft FrontPage

Microsoft FrontPage is an HTML authoring tool you can use to create and publish Web site content to the /var/www/html directory. If your site is configured with Microsoft FrontPage Extensions, you can publish pages to your site directly from FrontPage. To find out whether Microsoft FrontPage Extensions is enabled for your site, check to see if it is listed as enabled on the Configuration page. To learn more about using FrontPage, see the FrontPage documentation.

# Replace the default home page

A default home page, named index.html, is created for your domain when your site is set up. It is located on your site in the /var/www/html directory. Until you replace it, this is the page your visitors see when they go to your site <example.com>. Show me the default home page.

- Note: The default home page has links to the Site and User Administrator control panels. If you use the default page to access either of these control panels, be sure to bookmark or otherwise save these links before replacing the page. They will not be accessible after you replace the page.

You can either continue to use the default home page or create a new one and copy it to your site as described above. Make sure your new home page is named index.html and placed in the /var/www/html directory.

- Note: The Web server is set up to use the index.html page in the /var/www/html directory as the home page of your site.

If you have completed these steps successfully, you are ready to proceed to the next step and preview your new Web content.

Next step in publishing content: Previewing your Web content