Objectives
- Get your web pages uploaded to a web server
- View your website on the web server using a browser
Transfering your files to the web server
You can use an FTP program such as FileZilla client to transfer your web site files to the server. The server we are using for class uses the SFTP protocol, which uses encryption. The username and password are the same as you use to log in to other online school services.
The website on the class web server must be placed in a directory named "public_html". Once you connect using FileZilla, check to see if you have a directory on the server with that name. If you do not, then create that directory on the server.
Once you have a "public_html" directory on the server, use FileZilla to transfer all of the files your web site uses into the "public_html" directory on the server.
Viewing your website
The domain name of the web server we are using will be disclosed in class (or email the instructor if you are taking the class remotely). Let's assume for the moment that the domain name of the server is unicorn.kish.edu. Let's also assume that your username is wflintstone and your main web page is named mypage.html. The URL you would type in to the browser to see your site would be:
unicorn.kish.edu/~wflintstone/mypage.html