Uploading Your Website

After you make your website, you need to upload your pages to your account on our server. Uploading is commonly referred to as FTP (File Transfer Protocol). This is where you transfer a file from one machine to another through the Internet (in this case it will be from your computer to our server). This is relatively easy to do. 

First, you need an FTP Client.  If you are using a PC, then we suggest getting Filezilla.  You can download it from our ftp site at ftp://andrewsattic.com/pub/win32 .  If you are using something else like Linux,  BSD, Mac, and etc, there's a number of good ftp programs out there, pick one you like.  Please read the documentation that comes with them for information on how to use them.  A lot of other good software, for the internet or other uses, can be found at The Freshmeat Website (http://www.freshmeat.net) and The Sourceforge website (http://www.sourceforge.net).

There are a few things to know when uploading a website. You need to know the name of the server (andrewsattic.com), your username on the server, your password on the server, and the directory where all you web pages need to go. The Server or HOST name will be andrewsattic.com,  even if you have a hosted domain.

The username and password will be your username and e-mail password if you have an andrewsattic.com account.  Your username is the first part of your e-mail address if you have an andrewsattic.com email address.  If you have a  domain hosted on Andrews Attic it will be a special account created for the sole purpose of uploading web pages for that domain.  Once successfully logged into the server, there should be a directory already there called public_html. Enter that directory and upload all your web pages and files into it.  If you are uploading to a hosted domain, there is no public_html directory, just upload to the root directory.

For connecting, be sure to choose passive FTP. This is very important to remember if your get errors connecting. On Filezilla, it's under edit - options. Find the firewall section and turn on passive FTP.

Many programs, such as Microsoft FrontPage and Adobe Pagemill, have a built in uploading program. You can use these to automatically update your website when you make changes. The same server and login preferences apply as if you were using a regular FTP program. Usually these uploading programs work pretty well.

Once the pages are uploaded, you can access them at http://www.andrewsattic.com/~username or http://yourdomain.xxx