Lesson 8 Uploading your stores
Select the ‘computer’ store. You may need to be connected to the Internet to upload your files.
In Lesson 5, after you published the store, all the *.html, *.gif, *.jpg, *.js and *.cpp files necessary for the online store were placed in the \…\upload\abc\ folder. When you preview the store, you are actually looking at these files using your browser much the same way as you are browsing the files on your server. In this lesson, what we are presenting here is just a general discussion on how to upload the files to the servers.
Generally, there are a couple of ways to upload your files.
The most common way is to use the popular FTP programs like WS_FTP, CuteFTP or Fetch for Macintoch to connect to your server.
Log in with your assigned user ID and password. This usually gives you FTP connection to your home directory on the server. You then navigate to your HTML directory/folder where you want to upload your files. We have included in Chapter 10 – Uploading Your Stores the steps to upload the files to your server using WS_FTP or CuteFTP. There is also a special section on how to upload to AOL server.The other way is to go to your domain server. Check if they have a web based uploading utility program. E.g. File Manager or File Maintenance or Uploading File program. You then click on that uploading utility program and just follow the online instructions. Most free webs offer this method of file transfer.
Do not change the names of the files from *.html to *.htm. Also, do not rename the index.html file.