Defining remote sites for publishing

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Defining remote sites for publishing

Defining remote sites for publishing

A remote site is simply a folder on a Web server, into which you uploadCopy files from your computer to another computer (usually a server). the files that make up a Web site. Before you publish a Web site, you need to define at least one remote site—that is, you need to tell Namo WebEditor where it should upload the local site to.

The process of defining a remote site differs depending on the method you use to access it. Namo WebEditor supports two access methods: File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Windows file copy (Win32). FTP is the standard method of transferring files from a computer to a Web server; it is the most commonly used method of uploading Web sites. Alternatively, if your Web server happens to be the same computer as the one you run Namo WebEditor on, or if it is on the same local area network as your computer, then you can also use the Win32 method, which uses the built-in file copying abilities in Windows (much the same as when you copy files from folder to folder in Windows Explorer).

Required information for defining a site

If you will access the remote site using FTP, Namo WebEditor needs the following information. (If you do not manage the server yourself, you should get this information from your Web hosting provider or network administrator.)

Host name: The Web server’s name as used when accessing the server by FTP. For example, “ftp.example.com”.
Port number: The port on which the server accepts FTP connections. This is usually 21.
Directory: The path of the folder to which the site files will be uploaded. On many servers, this is either “/” or “/public_html”, although it could be anything else. Leading and trailing slashes are optional.
User name: The name you use to login to the FTP server.
Password: The password you use when logging on to the FTP server.

If you will access the remote site using the Win32 (Windows file copy) method, Namo WebEditor only needs to know the path of the folder. On Windows servers, this is often “C:\Inetpub\wwwroot” or a subfolder of it.

Optional HTTP information

When defining a remote site, you can optionally enter the base URLThe URL used to access a site’s main index page, not including a file name. Example: ‘http://www.example.com/’. that will be used to access the site in a Web browser. Namo WebEditor uses this information to associate the remote site with a particular Web (HTTP) URL. After you publish your site, if you open a document on it directly by entering its URL in the Open dialog box, and then save the document, Namo WebEditor will recognize the URL and automatically connect to the remote site to save the document directly to it. You do not need to enter an HTTP URL if you do not intend to open documents on the site directly by using the URL box in the Open dialog box.

If you do enter an HTTP URL in a remote site definition, make sure to include “http://” at the beginning of the URL, and do not include a file name at the end of the URL. Example: “http://www.example.com/”.