Publishing Sites Through FTP
To publish Web site through FTP:
- Connect to the server with an FTP client program, using FTP account credentials that you specified during setup of hosting account or obtained from your provider. The FTP address should be ftp://your-domain-name.com, where your-domain-name.com is your site's Internet address.
Enable the passive mode if you are behind a firewall.
- Upload files and directories that should be accessible through HTTP protocol to the
httpdocs
directory, and files/directories that should be transferred securely over SSL protocol to the httpsdocs
directory. - Place your CGI scripts into the
cgi-bin
directory. - Close your FTP session.