Your New Shared Hosting Account is Ready

www.lisburnrugby.co.uk

Welcome to your new shared hosting account.

Please remember that it can take two or three days for your domain name to be activated, it takes this long as all the other internet servers in the world have to recognise your domain name.

In the interim you can of course use the temporary subdomain to access you account: alisb58911.webconexion.co.uk

Connecting to Us

Connecting to your new shared hosting account is easy. To upload files to your shared hosting account you would usually use an FTP programme, FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. It is a way of uploading your web site to your shared hosting account.

If you don't already have an FTP client then you may download a shareware copy of WS-FTP from Ipswitch Software.

Once downloaded you should install WS-FTP on your machine following the instructions from Ipswitch.

Once installed select the option to create a new FTP account. You should then enter the details outlined below:-

Create a FTP Site With Name: ftp.lisburnrugby.co.uk

Host Name or IP Address: 80.71.1.113

User ID: alisb58911

Password: Enter the password that you received in your welcome e-mail

Click "Save Password" and then "Finish"

If you now click "OK" you will be connected to your Virtual Web Server.

You will now be able to see a number of files and directories, you will only be interested in the "public_html" directory. This is the directory where you will store all your html files and images.

The main page of your web site should be called index.html or index.htm (all lower case). Your index file is the first page people will see when they go to www.lisburnrugby.co.uk.

Connecting to Us - For FrontPage Users

Connecting to your new shared hosting account is easy using Microsoft FrontPage software. To use Microsoft FrontPage to publish your site you will have chosen to install FrontPage Extensions on your shared hosting account.

Here is how to publish your new shared hosting account using Microsoft FrontPage:-

  • Open FrontPage from your start menu
  • Open you FrontPage web
  • Click the FILE menu button, and choose "Publish FrontPage Web"
  • Enter your web address as http://www.lisburnrugby.co.uk and click OK
  • FrontPage will now contact the server
  • Enter your username (alisb58911) and password (provided in your welcome e-mail)
  • FrontPage will now publish your site to the web
General Information

Our system is SeNsItIvE to upper and lower case.

When you upload any perl, html, CGI or txt files then you should do so in ASCII Mode, zip files and images files should be uploaded in binary mode.

Files that include Server Side Includes (SSI) must end in the .shtml extension.

Please keep your password safe so that other people may not access your files.