How do I upload a front page of a website to a hosting site?
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 at
2:47 pm
Rick J asked:
I made a website on publisher and i cannot upload it to a hosting website
I made a website on publisher and i cannot upload it to a hosting website
Tagged with: Front Page • Hosting Website • Publisher • Upload • Website Hosting
Filed under: Q & A
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The home page, or front page of the site needs to be named index.htm or index.html on almost any hosting server. You probably need to upload it via
Make sure your file is an HTML file first of all. I’m not sure what type of web pages Publisher would make. If you are uploading to a Windows IIS server, save your page as default.html, if it’s a Unix Apache web server, save it as index.html.
You will need a web hosting account with FTP login username and password. Check out if you don’t have one. Login to the admin panel and you can upload your file from there. Just look for the FTP or File Upload icon.
If you already have a web hosting account, you need some sort of FTP program. You can even use Windows Explorer if necesarry, but there are better free programs like CoreFTP Lite.
Set up your FTP login and upload your file to the correct directory on your web server. Check with your hosting company for exact instructions for their server. You might need to upload to the www directory, or it could be public_html, or something else. JR