This page will show you how and what is required to upload your site.

Windows NT

You have two choices when uploading on the NT servers. You can use an FTP client (such as WS FTP for windows) or you can upload your pages using FrontPage/FrontPage Express. If your using FrontPage to make your pages its a good idea to upload with it as well. Why? Because FrontPage Extensions uses some 'WebBots' that won't be uploaded unless you use FrontPage. If you'r sure you don't use the WebBots then you can use either.

Uploading with FrontPage Express is easy. Simply click on 'Save As.. ' and enter your domain name and file name. http://www.example.com/index.html This will create a 'Start Page' on your site.

To use FTP simply: enter your domain name, username, password and begin uploading. The Windows NT platform does not require you to upload into a special directory.

Unix

You will need an FTP program to upload your pages. Download WS FTP or search the web for FTP clients if you don't already have one. Read the manual for your FTP program before using.

Login to your server, such as my.ieaccess.com, using your FTP client with your username and password. Make a directory/folder called public_html if one doesn't already exist. All web content must be uploaded into this folder. Change to the public_html directory and begin uploading your files. How this is done depends on your FTP client.

Test your site. If you get an error go back and make sure you uploaded your site into the correct folder. If so, please read the 'Start page' requirements section. Personal sites will be in the following format (where username is your login name) unless stated otherwise by ieaccess staff

http://my.ieaccess.com/~username/

'Start page' requirements

Both Windows NT and Unix require the 'Start' page to have a special name. When you put in an address like http://www.example.com the web server looks for the 'index' page. Below is a list of available 'index' page names in the order the server searches.

Windows NT: index.html, index.htm, Default.htm, Default.asp

Unix: index.html index.php3 (no caps)

Why is order important? If you decide to make a new index page called Default.asp (used to be index.html), on a NT machine, you will continue seeing index.html until its renamed or deleted.