Uploading files to your Virtual Server is quite easy, but there are a few things you need to remember. Once you have mastered these simple techniques you will be able to add any files you want to your Virtual Server.

Your Home Pages and CGI scripts can be produced on your local machine and then the finished product can be uploaded to your Virtual Server.

You will also find that you can download files such as your aliases file and certain configuration files. This will allow you to make changes on your local PC, then reload the files to your Virtual Server.

Here are the simple steps you can take:

1. You will need an FTP client for your local machine. You can find many free and useful clients on the Internet. Search the Web for FTP client and see what comes up.

   If you use Windows, we have found Cute FTP and WS_FTP to be very useful. If you use a Macintosh, try Fetch.

2. Connect to your Virtual Server via FTP using your login id and your login password. Do not login as anonymous, as you will not have access to the directories and files you need.

3. When you login to your site, you will be at your home directory. This is the same directory you find yourself in when you telnet to your site.

4. To upload Home Pages, go to the www/htdocs directory. Here you will find index.html. This is the default page that comes up when "http://www.yourdomain.com" is entered in a browser.

   You may upload your Home Pages here, or into any directory under the htdocs directory. Be sure you FTP all your Home Page files, as well as any text files such as cgi script source code in ASCII format! All your image files need to be FTP'd in BINARY format.

5. If you FTP a file called test.htm to the htdocs directory, it will be accessed by the address http://www.yourdomain.com/test.htm

   If you make a directory called documents below the htdocs directory, and FTP a file called info.html to that directory, it will be accessed by the address http://www.yourdomain.com/documents/info.html

6. If you want to change the default page that comes up when you enter http://www.yourdomain.com.... there are several approaches that can be taken.
   

   1. Upload the file into the htdocs directory, and rename it index.html.
      
   2. Establish a symbolic link to the file you uploaded to the htdocs directory named index.html by typing the following command:
      ln -s <filename> index.html
      
   3. Change the DirectoryIndex definition in the srm.conf file to be the filename of the uploaded file.
      

Those are the simple steps to FTP. If you have further questions, or comments, please send us some email at support@digitaldaze.com.