As with other important files make sure you backup your web page files to your home or office system. Humboldt Internet is not responsible for backing up your files or for any loss of data. H.I. charges $65 per hour to search our backups for your files with no guarantee that we will be able to restore those files. So....make a backup!

Humboldt Internet's $20 account comes with ten (10) megabytes of space on our server to put up a web page. If you have a $10 account and you want to put up a web page, please let us know and we will upgrade you to the $20 account.

This tutorial covers uploading a personal homepage to the www.humboldt1.com server, and will also work for uploading pages to a pseudo-domain. Uploading to a virtual domain is mostly the same, except that your server name won't be www.humboldt1.com, it will be the name of your virtual domain.

Basic Info

• The name of the directory (folder) on the server containing your web documents must be titled public_html
• The title of your Home Page document (text file) can be any of these. If you use a .cgi extension, the file will be treated as a CGI program. If you use .shtml, the index page will be examined for Server-Side Includes. If you have a virtual domain, then only index.html is enabled by default. If you have a virtual domain and would like to set up these others as home page documents, just contact support@humboldt1.com and we'll set it up.
  index.html
  index.htm
  default.htm
  index.cgi
  index.shtml
• The names of all other HTML files must end in either .html or .htm. The names of all graphics files must end in .gif or .jpg or .jpeg
• When you upload your page to the server, text files (.html or .map or .cgi) must be transferred as text, and graphics/images (.gif or.jpg) must be transferred as raw data. If you fail to do this your page will not work.
• It is a good idea to keep all of your images and graphics files in a sub-directory in your public_html directory. You reference a graphic in an IMG or A (anchor) tag by adding "foldername/" to the reference (i.e. graphics/title.jpg)
• The URL of your new home page is http://www.humboldt1.com/~login, where you replace login with your login name. For example, if your email address is support@humboldt1.com, then your login is support and the URL of your web page would be http://www.humboldt1.com/~support
• There are plenty of HTML tutorials on the Web, and we offer classes!

1. Create your web page.
2. Open WSFTP and connect to humboldt1.com.
   The Host Name is: www.humboldt1.com
   Host Type can be left at "Automatic detect"
   The User ID is: yourlogin
   The password is: yourpassword
   Everything else can be left alone.
   Press the OK button.
3. You need to make a directory called public_html. To do this:
   You will see a split-screen windows, with one side labeled "Local System", and the other side "Remote System".
   Click the button on the "Remote System" labeled "MkDir"
   When you're asked for the directory name, enter public_html
   Click the OK button.
4. You now need to put the correct permissions on this new directory to make it readable and executable by those viewing your page.
   Select (click to highlight) the newly created public_html directory from the "Remote System" directory list
   Click the right-mouse button (a menu will pop-up)
   Select FTP commands from the pop-up menu (another menu will pop-up)
   Select SITE from the pop-up menu.
   At the "Enter SITE string" prompt, type: chmod 755 public_html
   Click the OK button.
5. Now you can transfer your web page into your new directory on Humboldt Internet's server. If you don't know how to use WS_FTP you will want to come to our Web Design 2 or More From the Internet class (a schedule of classes can be found here), or read the program's help files. You will have to FTP your files to the server in order to see them on the web.

Netscape Composer

If you use Netscape Composer the HTTP or FTP location to publish to is: FTP://humboldt1.com/public_html
The username and password is the same username and password you use to login when you dial us.

Note: Netscape Composer does not create the necessary public_html directory so you will need to use an FTP program to create this directory.

Microsoft Frontpage

Once you have created, named, and saved your webpage, you will want to publish it to the World Wide Web. To publish your web page using Frontpage:

1. Click the Publish button.
2. You will be prompted to enter a location, which is ftp://www.humboldt1.com/public_html
3. The FTP server name is www.humboldt1.com
4. The directory path is public_html
5. You will be prompted for your username and password. These are the same you use to connect to Humboldt Internet. Once you enter these, Frontpage will upload your files for you!

If you have not yet created your public_html directory, Frontpage will create it for you.

You can also upload files directly to subdirectories within public_html. For example, if you have a directory within public_html called writing, you can upload files to that directory by entering ftp://humboldt1.com/public_html/writing as your location, and public_html/writing as your directory. Be sure to check the location and directory to which you are publishing each time you upload, to be certain that your pages are being published to the correct place.

Note: Always remember to save your pages after editing them and before publishing them!

Fetch 3.01

1. Using Fetch 3.01, connect to humboldt1.com.
   Host: humboldt1.com
   User ID: yourlogin
   Password: yourpassword
   Leave directory blank
   Everything else can be left alone.
   Press the OK button.
2. You need to make a directory called public_html.
   Click the button on the menu bar labeled "Directories"
   Choose "Create new Directory"
   Name the new directory public_html
   Click the OK button.
3. You now need to put the correct permissions on this new directory to make it readable and executable by those viewing your page.
   Select "Remote" from the menu bar
   Click the "Send FTP Commands..." option
   Enter site chmod 755 public_html
   Select OK in the bottom of the box
   You should get the message "Server response: chmod successful"
4. Now you can transfer your web page into your new directory on Humboldt Internet's server. If you don't know how to use the Fetch you will want to read the program's help files. You will have to FTP your files to the server in order to see them on the web.

Web Page Security

While the above instructions will get your page up and accessible, it is a good idea to follow these instructions to insure proper security of your account. Using an FTP client that allows setting of permissions (such as WS_FTP), log on to your account on humboldt1.com:

• Set the file permissions of all text or graphics files to rw-r--r-- with the command chmod 644 *.html. This is done exactly the same as you did above to set the permission on your public_html directory.
• We have configured the system so that all of your CGI or IMAGEMAP files should be kept in the same directory as your HTML and graphics files. The appropriate file extensions are .cgi and .map. The .cgi files should have permission 755.

Publicizing Your Web Page

If you put up a web page, you usually want to publicize your web page to get people to visit it. The most effective way to publicize your web page is to register it with a search engine. A search engine, as you probably know, is a searchable index of the World Wide Web.

Every search engine is different when it comes to how you submit your web page. Visit each of the search engines in which you'd like your page listed, and there should be a button or link to let you submit your info.

There's a great service called Submit-It that will submit your information to lots of search engines. They have a free version and a commercial version of their service. Check out http://www.submit-it.com/ for more information.

If you have any questions regarding this tutorial, please call tech support at 825-INET or email us at support@humboldt1.com. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide any technical support on the actual creation and maintenance of your web page, although we will be happy toanswer any questions you may have regarding this tutorial! We also encourage you to come to some of our free classes, which are listed in the class calendar on our website.