How to upload my site to a certain server?

Question

I am taking a web design course and I have the site designed but now I need to upload it to the server my school provides but when I say "preview in browser" the URL shows up as it coming from my documents folder. No one has emailed me back from my school since I take online courses and I really need help. Can anyone help me? If you have Yahoo messenger and can give me your screen name or something I'd really appreciate it.

Answer 1

The school should have given you the address of an FTP server and a username and password for it (or not, if it's anonymous FTP). Then, you need to run a piece of software like, say, ws_ftp, or Filezilla, or the Firefox extension named FireFTP ... or there's lots of others out and about ... any one of which will help you copy files from your computer to the school's server.

What you do is, with the piece of software mentioned, set up an account (like, defining the school's server, and if necessary, the userid and password info the school gave you). Then you "connect" to that account. You'll get a side-by-side list of your files (on your computer) and the files on the server (which will be none, at first). Then the piece of software will either have an arrow or some other mechanism you can use to copy files across. That's heem! Then you disconnect.

Answer 2

in the experience that your archives are a static (and not in any respect dynamic) then you definitely can without delay hardcode the direction in anchor tag utilising "href". Mime type for the record might want to be put in internet.xml record in case you're utilising internet servers like apache. so as that the browser can perceive the mime variety of the record and at the same time as the person chooses to receive it truly is going to provide u the alternative to open the record in some editor or reader of that record say Adobe reader.