HTML code to web page help, HTML code to web page help Options

[Bill]

Once I have written my HTML code, how do I transfer the date to become a web page?

[pandy]

It depends on what means your host offers. FTP is common. If it's a free host maybe they don't allow FTP and provide a web interface, an upload form, instead.

Here's a good and free FTP program for Windows if you need one.
http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
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[pandy]

Maybe I should also say that the first thing you need is a host, i.e. a web server where you can put your files so they will be accessible from the web. There are free and there are paid.

[Darin McGrew]

See also the FAQ entry Where can I put my newly created Web pages?

[jimlongo]

You need a FTP application to upload your html document to a server.

http://htmlhelp.com/faq/html/publish.html#publish-howto

In the time it took me to type this message there were 3 other replies gotta type faster

This post has been edited by jimlongo: Oct 27 2006, 04:53 PM

[Darin McGrew]

You need a FTP application to upload your html document to a server.

Just a quibble, but you may or may not need an FTP client. I have used FTP to upload content to web servers, but it's been a while. Lately, I've used various other technologies (depending on the server), and the web servers I work with don't even allow FTP.

[pandy]

I've heard those Mac keyboards only have one key.
(You make me very happy, because usually it's me doing that. )

[jimlongo]

You need a FTP application to upload your html document to a server.

Just a quibble, but you may or may not need an FTP client. I have used FTP to upload content to web servers, but it's been a while. Lately, I've used various other technologies (depending on the server), and the web servers I work with don't even allow FTP.

What other methods do you use to upload content?

[pandy]

Bet it's da killa app - email upload!

[jimlongo]

Maybe, but at any rate I doubt Darin is using a browser template that he fills in and submits.

[pandy]

If it's neither of those it must be SSH or Telnet. My bet's still on email upload though.

[Christian J]

Windows Explorer offers FTP too. But Darin would never admit using that.

[Peter1968]

Most web server management apps like Cpanel have a file manager app where you can upload/download and modify files directly on the server.

I imagine there'd be other browser-based solutions that can do this, or even terminal-based ones.

I doubt it'd be either SSH or telnet. It's fiddly to do any real file management with either, even with good tools like putty.

[jimlongo]

I use BBEdit to edit files directly on my server, but it still uses ftp to transfer the data back and forth. And my server does use Cpanel although I find that cumbersome since the editor doesn't have the features my editor does.

But i'm interested in hearing what Darin is alluding to, especially since the OP seemed to be talking about coding a document by hand then transferring it to a web server.

[Darin McGrew]

What other methods do you use to upload content?

Right now, it's usually scp (ssh). According to our IT guys, telnet and ftp send your password (or other authentication data) in the clear, but ssh and scp send it encrypted. How the updates are packaged and copied via scp varies depending on the situation, but at the heart of the transfer is scp.

Although I do use form-based interfaces for our intraweb wikis, and years ago I used whatever proprietary protocol MS FrontPage uses to communicate with MS IIS (the only way anyone was allowed to update that intraweb site--ewww!).