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Basics to FTP Upload your web site to Indus Hosting server

These instructions apply to the subscribers of our Shared Hosting services such as the Web Publishing Package, Gold Web Server Package, and the Master Reseller Package. These are written for the users of these services on our UNIX/Solaris platform, unless when the specific instructions for uploading to the NT platform are noted below.

You can upload the contents of your web site from your desktop to one of our servers as follows:

Make sure the desktop, where the contents are created and tested, is connected to the Internet, typically via a local Internet service provider.
Configure an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) tool to point to one of our servers and initiate the transfer.
Examples of FTP tools are ws-ftp on Windows 3.1 PC, fetch the Macintosh, or the FTP upload feature in most modern browsers such as Netscape 4.0 and the latest versions of Internet Explore.

Use the following instructions to point your FTP tool to the right server, username, password and the destination directory on the server.

If you have explicitly requested us to host your Website on an NT server, please replace the server name ftp.sharedhosting.net below with that for your site, such as www.yourbizname.com, and use the default destination directory for your username instead of public_html suggested below. In most tools, you simply leave the destination directory field blank to get the default directory on the server. If you have requested for FrontPage support, you only need to point the FrontPage client application to your web site, such as www.yourbizname.com.

If you have requested to move your Website from UNIX to the NT platform on our network, you will start using the parameters for NT. However, due to IP address caching on DNS clients, you may want to use the new IP address for the Website (ask support@sharedhosting.net) instead of www.your_domain.com during a few days of transition.

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Specify ftp.sharedhosting.net as the remote server name
Enter the username and password. This should be same as the one you selected when signing up the account.
Specify public_html as the remote/destination default directory.
Specify the directory on your desktop where your HTML documents reside as the local/source directory.
Tell the FTP tool to initiate the FTP connection to our server.

The FTP tool may prompt you for the password or take the password entered above. Once the FTP tool authenticates itself with the server, you should see the documents in the public_html area of your account on the server. When connected for the first time, you will see a single file named index.html. This is the initial template installed by Indus Hosting. Your goal is to overwrite it by uploading your own HTML file.

At this point, you can start uploading pages one by one. The process of uploading is usually as simple as highlighting within the FTP application an individual HTML document on your desktop and pressing the upload arrow to transfer it to our server. You must start with uploading your main document as index.html to our server. When this is done, you can switch to your Web browser and revisit your Web site address, typically http://www.yourdomain.com (or if the domain registration process has not been completed yet: http://www.sharedhosting.net/~yourusername). You should see the template document replaced by the file you just uploaded. If not, something went wrong. Otherwise, proceed to upload all the documents, one by one, to our server.

Guidelines

You may create subdirectories under your public_html area on our server for better organization of the documents.
The HTML documents should refer to each other using relative path names, such as href="otherdoc.html".
The html documents may be named with either the ".html" or ".htm" extension.
If you want to have Server Side Includes (SSI) you will need to name your documents with the ".shtml" or ".sht" extension.
Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripts will need to have the ".cgi" extension. See CGI configuration for more information.

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Note that you may not have to do this for the purpose of getting your site working. The following step is recommended only to make sure no one else -- either another user of our system or an Internet hacker -- can ever modify your documents.We take several measures to ensure security of your documents and our Internet environment. But there is no such thing as a fully secured Web site since the very nature of the publishing activity makes it otherwise. We recommend that you always keep a complete set of your HTML documents handy on your desktop so it can be re-uploaded if required.

You may want to make sure the permissions of your documents are correct. You can ssh to sharedhosting.net and use the chmod UNIX command to do this.

chmod 644 file.html    Allow access to a file
chmod 600 file.html    Dis-allow access to a file
chmod 755 file.cgi     Allow access to run your scripts
chmod 700 file.cgi     Dis-allow access to run your scripts
man chmod              display the chmod manual page

Tips for setting permissions

You might want to use file directory permissions on your documents on our
server. You want to take "r" and "w" permission away from "others" but
keep the "x" permission on "others"

chmod o-rw directory_name
chmod o+x directory_name

so other clients with file system access can not list directories to see
all the files but get onlt the html documents that have "o+r" permission
read directly or through the web server. You also want to take away all
permissions from "group" on all files.

chmod -R g-rwx

Some other important unix commands:

cd ~/public_html       change to your public_html directory
pwd                    print the current directory
ls -al                 List the files in the current directory
mkdir test             make a subdirectory called test
rmdir test             remove a subdirectory called test
rm file.html           remove a file (It's gone for good)

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