Uploading/Publishing Web Pages
Once you have finished creating your web page(s) with the editor of your choice, you need to upload it to the St. Olaf web server to make it available to the world. Some editors call this process "uploading" or "publishing."
Select your web page editor to view the uploading/publishing
instructions:
Claris Home Page
Netscape Composer
FrontPage Express
Other
Claris Home Page
Begin by clicking on the Verify Links and References... button. This option allows Claris to search your page for any broken links and notify you of them. After correcting any broken links, click on the Consolidate button to have Claris move all your media files into one folder to help with site organization. Finally click on the Upload button. This brings up an upload window, click on the Include Images checkbox and then hit the Set FTP Options button. In the Server Name field enter
webdrive.stolaf.edu
and enter your UNIX username and password in the appropriate fields. Finally in the Remote Folder field enter the following:
/home/www/path/filename.html
Path represents the list of directories leading to the location of your page on the web server. It is the same list of names and slashes that you see after the "http://www.stolaf.edu/" portion of a URL on the St. Olaf web space. For example, a page with the URL
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/french/index.html
will have a location on the web server that looks like this:
ftp://webdrive.stolaf.edu/home/www/depts/french/index.html
Filename.html represents the actual name of the HTML file. It needs to have a .htm or .html ending and contain no spaces or special characters for the web server to recognize it.
Netscape Composer
Click on the Publish Tool. Type in the location where you are publishing the page to in the field specified. If you are creating a new page, the format of the location should look something like this:
ftp://webdrive.stolaf.edu/home/www/path/filename.html
Path represents the list of directories leading to the location of your page on the web server. It is the same list of names and slashes that you see after the "http://www.stolaf.edu/" portion of a URL on the St. Olaf web space. For example, a page with the URL
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/french/index.html
will have a location on the web server that looks like this:
ftp://webdrive.stolaf.edu/home/www/depts/french/index.html
Filename.html represents the actual name of the HTML file. It needs to have a .htm or .html ending and contain no spaces or special characters for the web server to recognize it.
If you are editing a page that already exists on the web server, the location will already be filled in for you in the Publish dialog box -- but it is not correct. Composer mistakenly assumes that the URL is the same as the location. With St. Olaf computing, it is not. Make sure to change the location so that it is correct. Most of the time, it will require replacing the "http://www.stolaf.edu/" with "ftp://lars.acc.stolaf.edu/home/www".
Make sure you type in your UNIX login name and UNIX login password in the fields specified.
Often times, a Web page will actually be a collection of pages about a particular subject, i.e. the home page, the pictures page, the news page. It may also need to call out to images that have been posted on the page. To publish all of the pages and associated images at once select the pages and images or the file the pages and images are in, check the box in the lower section of the Publish dialog box that says Include all files in this page's folder.
Front Page Express
To publish in Front Page Express first go to the Folders View and select all the pages you wish to upload. Next go to the File Menu and select Publish Web. This brings up an upload window, in the upload text field enter:
ftp://webdrive.stolaf.edu/home/www/path/filename.html
Path represents the list of directories leading to the location of your page on the web server. It is the same list of names and slashes that you see after the "http://www.stolaf.edu/" portion of a URL on the St. Olaf web space. For example, a page with the URL
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/french/index.html
will have a location on the web server that looks like this:
ftp://webdrive.stolaf.edu/home/www/depts/french/index.html
Filename.html represents the actual name of the HTML file. It needs to have a .htm or .html ending and contain no spaces or special characters for the web server to recognize it.
Press the Upload button and when prompted type in your UNIX login name and password in the fields specified.
Other
If your web composer does not have a publish option or if you are editing your pages in a text editor the most reliable way to transfer files is to use a FTP program for either Windows or Macintosh. Commonly, Windows machines use NetDrive or WS_FTP and Macintoshs use Fetch. For instructions on how to upload using these programs go to:
Last Revised: June 25, 2002