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Adobe GoLive Uploading Basics
GoLive is a powerful site design and publishing tool, and works well
with our accounts. The Mac and PC versions of this program are
almost identical. You can get a 30-day trial version of the program from
Adobe from this link::
The following information is contained within your account Welcome
letter and is needed to connect you to your website via FTP:
Your User Name........(case sensitive)
Your Password..........(case sensitive)
Your Host Address.... yourdomain.com or your IP address
("IP address" is the numerical address assigned to every
account. For the first few days, until your domain name is
registered or transferred, this will be the only way you can connect).
Publishing Your Web Page.
1. From File pull down menu, select FTP Browser
2. In the
FTP Browser window, enter the following:
Server = yourdomain.com (or your IP address)
Directory = /www
Username = user name
Password = password
3. Click Connect
. After connecting to the remote
server, Adobe GoLive displays the directory on the remote server - your
web hosting account.
4. To download, drag files or folders one at a time from the FTP
Server window to the desktop. To upload, do the reverse.
For a first-time
upload, the entire site is copied to the server. Subsequent uploads are
normally updates that synchronize the local and server-based sites. For
updates, you have two choices:
Incremental
uploads copy only new site files and site files whose local modification
dates are later than the modification dates of the corresponding files
on the server. (If both the server file and the local file have been
modified and the server file has a later modification date, the local
file won't be uploaded.)
Modified-item
uploads copy only new site files and site files that have been modified
in Adobe GoLive since the previous upload. (If a local file has been
modified outside of Adobe GoLive, it won't be uploaded whatever its
modification date is.)
You can use
either the incremental method or the modified item method for both
first-time uploads and subsequent updates.
All of your files
will be uploaded to the www
directory, as will any subdirectories you create. The one unique system
directory that you may want to use is cgi-bin;
this directory is reserved for custom Perl/CGI scripts. To make your
home page load automatically, name the HTML document "index.html"
in lowercase and upload it to the www
directory of your account. If you access your site (www.yourdomain.com)
and see a page that says, "This site is under construction and will
be available soon" that means you have not uploaded your "index.html"
file correctly.
As soon as a file
is uploaded to the web server, it is available for all to see. If, after
uploading a file, you are still unable to see the updated file via your
browser, try hitting the "Refresh" or "Reload"
button. If that fails, you need to clear both disk and browser cache.
This function can be found by selecting Options
- Network Preferences in Netscape, and Tools
- Internet Options in Internet Explorer. Remember that
you must first be connected to the Internet through your local Internet
service provider in order to connect to the web server.
IMPORTANT
NOTES:
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All
passwords, usernames, and file names are case sensitive. Example: if
you typed FILENAME.GIF in your HTML document but named your file
filename.gif it would not work. They must match up in order for your
page to show up properly.
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Any and all
files you want to be accessed via a web browser must be placed in
your www directory.
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