Publishing Web Pages

Overview

OneNet provides it's customers with the capabilities of World Wide Web (WWW) Hosting by providing and configuring the Netscape host software. OneNet also provides Dial-up customers with 10 MB of storage space. Customers can either utilize Netscape Navigator Gold or Netscape Communicator's Publish feature or another dedicated FTP program to publish web pages to their website. However, only the FTP programs currently gives customers the capabilities to rename or delete files, or create and remove directories.

The customer is responsible for creating, editing, and maintaining their web pages. The initial web page must be named either index.html, index.htm or home.html. The server is case sensitive therefore these file names must be lower case.

Netscape Navigator Gold or Netscape Communicator allows you to create, edit and transfer web pages. You can, however, use a program specifically designed for creating web pages and transferring them to the server. There are several available on the internet at FTP sites.

OneNet customer's URL's are: http://www.onenet.net/~username If you are a customer with an unique domain name, your URL will be: http://www.your_unique_domain.

Netscape Navigator Gold ^™
Netscape Communicator ^™

In addition to being a Web browser, Netscape Navigator Gold and Netscape Communicator can be used to create, edit and publish web pages. Netscape's Publishing feature can be found in the Editor. The Editor can be accessed by selecting either New Document or Edit Document in the File menu.

To Publish the document and images contained in the document, select Publish under the Editor's File menu. The Netscape: Publish Files window will display the current document path and name with image file(s) contained in it.

You will need to indicate whether you want to include the image files or not. Also, you need to input the method to use to publish the files, the server to publish to, and the directory on the server where the files are to be put in the Publishing location. Enter "ftp://" then the server name where your files are to be published. If you do not know this, contact OneNet at 1-888-566-3638 to obtain this information. The directory will be "./www/".

The Publishing parameters can also be set by selecting Editor Preferences under the Options menu in Navigator Gold or in the Edit/Preferences/Editor menu in Netscape Communicator.

Navigator - The Publish tab:
Communicator - The Publish Sub-category under the Editor Category:

 

FTP Software

If you are using an FTP software package, the server that you ftp to will be the same as described above. The directory will be www. The username and password will be the same as described above.

WinFTP

WinFTP can be used to upload your Web Pages you must first create your web pages. To upload them start WinFTP after you are connected. In Session Profile click NEW, use the profile name Web site, that way you can find it later. For the HOST use www.domain.ext, using your username and your password, the same one that you login with. Press SAVE to save the information then press OK. This will open an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) session and will take you to your folder on the OneNet server. This folder will contain a folder called www.

The www folder is where you place all your web pages and associated files for them. To upload the file, first find the file on the left-hand side under LOCAL SYSTEM. Make sure you are in the correct folder on the right side under the REMOTE SYSTEM, where you want to put the files. Highlight the files and press the arrow in the middle that points to the right (The arrow that point toward the remote system) to transfer the files to the REMOTE SYSTEM. The first page home.html, index.html or "index.htm" and that it should be all lowercase.

WinFTP can used to rename or delete files on either the REMOTE SYSTEM (OneNet server) or the LOCAL SYSTEM. To delete a file, select the file to be deleted in either the LOCAL SYSTEM or REMOTE SYSTEM. Press DELETE to delete the selected file. A Verify Deletion message box will be displayed and prompt for verification of the deletion process. Press YES to continue or NO to discontinue. To RENAME a file, select the file to be renamed in either the LOCAL SYSTEM or REMOTE SYSTEM. Press RENAME to rename the selected file. An input box prompting for the new name for the selected file will be displayed. Input the new name and press OK to continue or Cancel to discontinue.

WinFTP can used to make new directories or delete existing directories on either the REMOTE SYSTEM (OneNet server) or the LOCAL SYSTEM. To delete a directory, select the directory to be deleted in either the LOCAL SYSTEM or REMOTE SYSTEM. Press DELETE to delete the selected directory. A Verify Deletion message box will be displayed and prompt for verification of the deletion process. Press YES to continue or NO to discontinue.

To RENAME a directory, select the directory to be renamed in either the LOCAL SYSTEM or REMOTE SYSTEM. Press RENAME to rename the selected directory. An input box prompting for the new name for the selected directory will be displayed. Input the new name and press OK to continue or Cancel to discontinue. To create a new directory, press MKDIR. An input box prompting for the name of the directory to be created will be displayed. Input the name and press OK to continue or Cancel to discontinue.

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