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| Once you are connected, make sure you are in the remote directory dedicated to store a web pages. It may be the one you get in after logging in (it is the case if you do not see any subdirectories after logging in). But with some providers you will have several subdirectories available, from which only one is visible on the Internet. Such subdirectory will have a name like ''www'', ''htdocs'', ''httpdocs'', ''public_html'' or other. | Once you are connected, make sure you are in the remote directory dedicated to store a web pages. It may be the one you get in after logging in (it is the case if you do not see any subdirectories after logging in). But with some providers you will have several subdirectories available, from which only one is visible on the Internet. Such subdirectory will have a name like ''www'', ''htdocs'', ''httpdocs'', ''public_html'' or other. | ||
| - | mahesh | + | All files you upload to this directory will be visible on the Internet. So for example if you upload your page ''pictures.html'' into your web directory ''htdocs'' and your site domain is ''example.com'', anyone will be able to see your page at address ''http://example.com/pictures.html''. |
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| + | By convention there is a single file that gets displayed if you do not specify any file in the address directly, i.e. frontpage. The name of the file is usually ''index.html'' or ''index.htm'' (or different extension if you use some scripting language). | ||
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| + | ===== File Names ===== | ||
| + | Before you start uploading/creating pages, make sure you use reasonable file names. It is strongly recommended not to use punctuation characters, spaces and some special characters in filenames to be published on Internet. Hence instead of ''Mein Gästebuch.html'', use ''mein_gastebuch.html''. | ||
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| + | Also URL (web addresses) are case sensitive, which is different to how Windows treat filenames. So if you first test your pages locally on Windows and links stops working once you upload the pages, it is probably for inconsistencies in letter cases. For example you may have a link to ''Mein_Gastebuch.html'', but the file is actually named ''mein_gastebuch.html''. This is not the same on Internet. | ||
| ===== Uploading Pages ===== | ===== Uploading Pages ===== | ||