Sending pages to the Web server

Once you have created your pages (see Preparing Pages for the Web - Apache & MS Internet Information Server (IIS) ) they need to be sent to the server.

Information Provider usernames

Apache/Unix server

For publishing on Apache, you should mount your web directory and you can simply drag and drop your files from your source directory to the publish directory. The default file creation permissions on mounted Web directories are set correctly for all to read the pages by default.

If you have your Web directory mounted and you used a package such as FrontPage,  NetObjects Fusion or Dreamweaver, you should not copy and paste but use the publish command. This is because these packages modify or create the HTML from the source files on publishing.

If you do not or cannot mount your Web directory, you can use FTP (or Fetch on a Mac) to upload the files.  Some packages have an FTP client integrated into the package or you can use an independent one such as WS_FTP.

MS IIS server

In Frontpage you can publish to your chosen location by publishing to the web site address on the IIS server, using the http protocal. For example, you can publish to http://www.yyy.reading.ac.uk/ by setting this URL as the publishing address.

If you are not using Frontpage, you can FTP your files to your web server directory - you cannot mount your web server directory, for security reasons.  To be allowed to FTP to the IIS server you will have to request this facility explicity by emailing  ITS-Help@reading.ac.uk.  

Personal Usernames

You can drag and drop your files to the public_html directory on your network drive or use FTP. However the default file permissions will need to be change as described on the Location of published pages section.