Publishing Sites Through FTP

To publish a site through FTP:

1. Connect to the server with an FTP client program, using FTP account credentials that you specified during setup of hosting account or obtained from your provider. The FTP address should be ftp://your-domain-name.com, where your-domain-name.com is your site's Internet address.

   Enable the passive mode if you are behind a firewall.

2. Upload files and directories that should be accessible through HTTP protocol to the httpdocs directory, and files/directories that should be transferred securely over SSL protocol to the httpsdocs directory.
3. Place your CGI scripts into the cgi-bin directory.
4. Close your FTP session.

Publishing Sites Through Parallels Plesk Panel File Manager

To upload files through Parallels Plesk Panel File Manager:

1. Log in to Parallels Plesk Panel.
2. Go to Domains > domain name > File Manager.
3. Create and upload files and directories.

   Place the files and directories that should be accessible via HTTP protocol to the httpdocs directory, and files/directories that should be transferred securely over SSL protocol to the httpsdocs directory. Place your CGI scripts into the cgi-bin directory.

   • To create a new directory within your current location, click the Add New Directory button.
   • To create new files in the required directory, click Add New File, in the File creation section specify the file name, select the Use html template check box, if you want file manager to insert some basic html tags to the new file, and click OK. A page will open allowing you to enter the content or html-formatted source of a new file. After you are done, click OK.
   • To upload a file from the local machine, click Add New File, specify the path to its location in the File source box (or use the Browse button to locate the file), and click OK.
   • To modify permissions for a file or directory, in the Permissions column, click the respective hyperlink representing the set of permissions. Modify the permissions as desired and click OK.
   • To edit the source code of a file, click .
   • To edit the Web page in the built-in visual editor (available only to users of Microsoft Internet Explorer), click . When editing an HTML file, Parallels Plesk Panel opens internal WYSIWYG editor by default. If you want to edit the source code of the HTML file, click HTML. To return back to WYSIWYG mode, click Design.
   • To view the file, click .
   • To rename a file or directory, click . Type in a new name and click OK.
   • To copy or move a file or directory to another location, select the required file or directory using the appropriate check box, and clickCopy/Move. Specify the destination for the file or directory to be copied or renamed to, then click Copy to copy, or Move to move it.
   • To update the file or directory creation date, click Change Timestamp. The time stamp will be updated with the current local time.
   • To remove a file or directory, select the corresponding check box, and click Remove. Confirm removal and click OK.

Publishing Sites with Microsoft FrontPage

Microsoft FrontPage deals with two kinds of Web sites: disk-based and server-based. In short, a disk-based site is a FrontPage Web site you create on your local hard disk and then later publish to a Web server. A server-based site is one you create and work with directly on a Web server, without the extra step of publishing. This section provides you with instructions on publishing only disk-based web sites.

You can publish disk-based web sites either through FTP or HTTP. If your server is running FrontPage Server Extensions, you would publish your site to an HTTP location. For example: http://your-domain.com/MyWebSite. If your server supports FTP, you would publish to an FTP location. For example: ftp://ftp.your-domain.com/myFolder.

After publishing, you can manage your site through FrontPage Server Extensions.

To access FrontPage Server Extensions management interface:

1. Log in to Parallels Plesk Panel.
2. Click the Domains shortcut in the navigation pane.
3. Click the required domain name in the list.
4. To manage a site, which is not protected by SSL, open the Web Site group title menu, and click Frontpage Webadmin. To manage an SSL-enabled site, open the Web Site group title menu, and click Frontpage SSL Webadmin.
5. Type your FrontPage administrator's login name and password, and click OK.

For instructions on using FrontPage server extensions, see online help (Frontpage Webadmin > Help) or visit Microsoft Web site.

Publishing from Microsoft FrontPage through FTP

To publish files through FTP:

1. Open your FrontPage program.
2. Open a FrontPage Web site: open File menu and select the Open Site item.
3. Go to Remote Web site view: click the Web Site tab, and then the Remote Web Site button at the bottom of the window.
4. Set up your Remote Web Site Properties:
   • Click the Remote Web Site Properties button in the upper-right corner of the window.
   • Select FTP as the remote Web server.
   • In the Remote Web site location box, type your host name (e.g., ftp://ftp.your-domain.com)
   • In the FTP directory box, type your FTP directory if your hosting company provided one. Leave it blank if they did not specify one.
   • Select the Use Passive FTP check box if your computer or network is protected by a firewall.
5. Click OK to connect to the remote site.

   The Remote Web site view will show files that you have in your local and remote sites.

6. Click the Publish Web site button in the lower-right corner of the window.

Publishing from Microsoft FrontPage through HTTP

To publish files through HTTP on a server that supports FrontPage Server Extensions:

1. Open your FrontPage program.
2. Open a FrontPage Web site: open File menu and select the Open Site item.
3. Go to Remote Web site view: click the Web Site tab, and then the Remote Web Site button at the bottom of the window.
4. Click the Remote Web Site Properties button in the upper-right corner of the window.
5. On the Remote Web Site tab, under Remote Web server type, click FrontPage or SharePoint Services.
6. In the Remote Web site location box, type the Internet address, including the protocol, of the remote Web site that you want to publish folders and files to — for example, http://www.your-domain.com — or click Browse to locate the site.
7. Do any of the following:
   • To use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for establishing a secure communications channel to prevent the interception of critical information, click Encryption connection required (SSL). To use SSL connections on your Web server, the server must be configured with a security certificate from a recognized certificate authority. If the server does not support SSL, clear this check box. Otherwise, you will not be able to publish folders and files to the remote Web site.
   • To remove specific types of code from Web pages as they are being published, on the Optimize HTML tab, select the options you want.
   • To change the default options for publishing, on the Publishing tab, select the options you want.
8. Click OK to connect to the remote site.

   The Remote Web site view will show files that you have in your local and remote sites.

9. Click the Publish Web site button in the lower-right corner of the window.

Publishing Sites with Adobe Dreamweaver

Before publishing a site from Dreamweaver, you need to define the site properties, that is, you need to tell Dreamweaver where your site files are located on your computer, and to specify the server to which you want to publish the site.

To define a site in Dreamweaver:

1. From the Site menu, choose New Site. The Site Definition screen opens.

2. Click the Advanced tab.

3. In the Local Info category, specify the following:
   • Site name. This will show in Web browser's title bar.
   • Local root folder. This is the folder on your computer where all of your site files are stored. For example c:\My Site
   • Default images folder. Specify the folder where your site's graphic files are stored. For example c:\My Site\images
   • HTTP address. Specify your domain name. For example, http://your-domain.com
4. From the Category menu, select the Remote Info item.

5. From the Access menu, select the FTP option. Most likely, your server supports publishing through FTP (File Transfer Protocol, commonly used for transferring files over the Internet).
6. Specify the following settings:
   • FTP host. Type your FTP host name without the ftp:// prefix. For example, your-domain.com.
   • Host directory. Specify the directory on the server where your site will reside. In most cases, this is httpdocs.
   • Login and password. Specify the login name and password for access to the FTP account.
   • Use passive FTP. Select this option only if your computer is behind a firewall.
7. To ensure that you specified the correct login and password, and that Dreamweaver can connect to the server, click the Test button.

8. To save the settings, click OK.

To publish your site:

1. Open your site in Dreamweaver.
2. From the Site menu, select the Put option (or press Ctrl+Shift+U simultaneously).