Uploading Your Website

With a METC Internet account, you get a free 10MB personal web site. The site will be located at: http://www.metc.net/~username(your username).

Your site can be designed using a web design program, such as Front Page, Nvu, MS Publisher, etc. We will support the uploading of files from your computer to the servers, but questions on how to run the web design programs, such as Front Page, are outside the scope of our technical support service. Once you have your site designed, you need to transfer the files from your computer to our servers.

How to access your website and update: 
You will need to have an FTP program, such as WS FTP_LE.  This program is provided on our EZN CDRom if you don't have it already on your computer or via the link on the right. Call our office or stop by and we'll give you that CD.

Open WS FTP_LE
To upload files to your personal website from a Windows machine connected through PPP, we recommend that you use WS_FTP Limited EditionT (as used in this example) or a similar FTP program. You may also need to get a Zip/Unzip program.

Start this program and create a new session profile by clicking on the 'new' button. Give the profile a name of "My Website or whatever you choose to call it". Fill in the following information:

Host Name: www.metc.net
Host Type: Automatic Detect
User ID: Your Username
Password: Your Password
Save Password: Check this box want to save your password.
Advanced Tab: Remove check-mark from "Passive Transfers".

When you have completed this, click Apply and then click OK. You will be connected and should see two items under "Remote System": Maildir and web  

Change into the web directory by double-clicking on web. The path at the top right corner of the window will change to show what directory you are in. /web.

The left half of the screen will show your local hard drive. To upload files, first locate the files you want to upload on your hard drive. Note that double-clicking on  will take you up one directory level. The path at the top left corner of the window will show you what directory you are currently in. When you have located the files you want to upload, select them and then click on the right-pointing arrow in the center of your screen. This will transfer the files to your personal website account.  

Warning -- ws_ftp.ini files contain passwords. Do not upload them into your Personal website area. It makes it really easy for others to break into your personal website account. 

If you are uploading text files, such as HTML documents, you should upload them as ASCII data. If you are uploading graphic files, such as GIF or JPEG images, you should upload them as Binary. If you select "Auto" at the bottom of the screen, it should handle this automatically. 

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: Your "home page" must be called index.html and should overwrite the existing index.html file that resides in your .web directory. 

Also, file names are case sensitive. We suggest using all lowercase letters for your file names, such as 'mywebsite.html' to avoid confusion.