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How to
set up your own web pages on our server
Your subscription with Online South Pacific includes a free allocation
of 500,000 bytes of web space. You can can use this for creating and storing
web pages you have created, so that other people can view them on the internet.
This web space is intended for small-scale/personal use - if you like to have a
large web site on a commercial basis, please contact us about purchasing more
web space from us at commercial rates.
Publishing your web pages on our server involves the following steps:
Create your web pages on your local PC's hard disk. You can do
this in many ways, such as:
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Create HTML text files with a text editor, if you know how to do this (or you
can buy a book about it, or read one of the many web pages on the Internet
which tell you how HTML works)
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You can look at your trial pages on your local hard disk by running Netscape
and opening up the file you have written on your hard disk using the File menu
to open up the page. Your html files need to end in either .html or .htm to
work properly.
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When you are ready, transfer your web pages from your hard disk to our server.
This is done using a program called ftp to transfer the files over to us (ftp
is a short name for the File Transfer Protocol). On windows XP or Vista, you
can do this by connecting to the Internet, then bringing up a MSDOS emulation
window and doing the following (this example assumes you have created your
pages and put them in a directory on your computer called \PAGES)..
You type the commands which are shown in bold face below,
changing things as appropriate for your situation.
C:\WINDOWS> cd \pages (or to wherever your pages are
stored)
C:\PAGES> ftp www.online.net.pg
These commands will connect your computer to our server. Now, log in to
our server by typing in your assigned username and your password, as shown in
the following example: Connected to www.online.net.pg
220 chimbu FTP server (Version 6.00LS) ready.
Username (www.online.net.pg): yourname (without
@online.net.pg added to it!)
331 Password required for login.
Password: yourpassword
230 User yourname logged in.
FTP> binary (you only need this command to send binary
files like GIF or JPEG)
FTP> mput *.* (sends all of the files in your \PAGES
directory over to our server)
or
FTP> put index.html (just send index.html file over)
FTP> bye (that's all!)
Other commands worth knowing about in ftp include:
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dir list all files on the remote server
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get name get the named file from the server and put
it on your own hard disk
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put name put the named file from your hard disk over
to the server
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cd name change to a new directory on the server
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md name make a new subdirectory on the server
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rd name remove a directory on the server
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dele name delete a file from the server
Now, you can access your pages on our server to make sure that they have been
properly transferred. To do this, just call up your pages like this in
netscape:
http://www.online.net.pg/~yourname
(which calls up the file called index.html or index.htm in your directory), or
if you want to view another specific filename in your area, type in the name of
that file on the end of the line, like this:
http://www.online.net.pg/~yourname/yourfile.html
For example, if your Online South Pacific account was called fred, your web
pages would be called up like this:
http://www.online.net.pg/~fred
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That's it! You can use ftp to change your web pages on our server whenever you
like. Note that most good web page design programs often have an ftp program
built into them. Also, there are some nice windows-based ftp programs
available, such as the one on our software download page, called WS_FTP.
You may find them easier to use than the FTP command in MSDOS.
If you want to download this program, just click here to go
to our software pages, and then download what you want by clicking on
the appropriate link to begin the download of the program to your hard disk.
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