Preparing your pages

Your main web page should be named index.html or index.htm. When someone tries to view your web site without specifying a specific page to load, our server will look for one of the above default file names and show that to the user.

For instance, if you try to connect to your web site at:

http://www.northcoast.com/~joeuser/

http://www.northcoast.com/~joeuser/index.html

Uploading web pages

• You must upload (transfer) your web page files to our web server, using something called "File Transfer Protocol" (FTP).
• You will need an FTP program, such as WS-FTP for Windows, or Fetch for Macintosh.
• Connect to Northcoast Internet as you normally do.
• Run your FTP program and tell it to connect to our web server address: redwood.northcoast.com.
• You will be prompted for a username and password. Supply your existing Northcoast Internet username and password.
• Move to the /www subdirectory within your directory.
• Upload your web pages into your /www subdirectory. Remember to transfer any graphics files in binary format and text files in ascii format.

Announcing your page

• After your page is posted, announce your web page in our directory of Northcoast Internet user pages.
• If you want to add your page to global web directories, visit search engines and look for an option titled "Add URL" or "Submit site" for instructions on adding your page to these services.

CGI

If you are running any interactive scripts from your account they must use the extension .cgi. Scripts using a .pl extension which are to be executed from a web page should be renamed to a .cgi extension. Scripts can be run from within your /www directory.

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