The follow article explains how to upload your website to ourservers using FTP (File Transfer Protocol) through a web browser. Mostgraphical operating systems have a browser installed by default. Thebasic idea is to first establish a connection with our server and yourcomputer and then upload the files. This will transfer your website toour servers so that others can view your site on the internet.

To upload your files using a browser, please follow these steps:

1. Open your web browser and enter ftp://username@domainname.com in the address bar.
2. You will be prompted to enter the password for this account.

Once you successfully login you will see a listing of the files in your website on our server.

You can now drag files from your local computer into this folder toupload files to our server or drag files from this folder to your localcomputer to download files off your website.

Note: in order for your site to show up when youtype in your domain name or IP address into a web browser, the firstpage or the home page must be named one of these file names:

• index.html (standard HTML extension)
• index.htm (standard HTML extension)
• index.shtml or shtm (standard SSI extension, used with server side includes)
• index.asp (standard "active server page extension)
• default.html (standard HTML extension)
• default.htm (standard HTML extension)
• default.shtml or shtm (standard SSI extension, used with server side includes)
• default.asp (standard "active server page extension)

If you require a different home page name (called a "default document"), you can update it through the Control Panelor we can accommodate your needs. Please let us know what name yourequire. In most cases it is easier to rename your home page to one ofthe documents above. Please note that some file names (such as .asp and.shtml) are reserved for specific types of web applications. If you areunsure of which file extension to use, you can probably safely use .htmor .html.

Also, these documents carry an "order of precedence" as they arelisted above. For example, if you have both an index.html file and adefault.html file, the index.html file will show up when viewing yoursite with the domain name or IP address.

If you still cannot view your site please contact support@ondemandhosting.net for assistance.