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The following information is contained within your account Welcome letter and is needed to connect you to your website via FTP:

Your User Name........(case sensitive)
Your Password..........(case sensitive)
Your Host Address.... yourdomain.com or your IP address

("IP address" is the numerical address assigned to every account.   For the first few days, until your domain name is registered or transferred, this will be the only way you can connect).

1. From File pull down menu, select FTP Browser

2. In the FTP Browser window, enter the following:

Server = yourdomain.com (or your IP address)
Directory = /www
Username = user name
Password = password

3. Click Connect . After connecting to the remote server, Adobe GoLive displays the directory on the remote server - your web hosting account.

4. To download, drag files or folders one at a time from the FTP Server window to the desktop.  To upload, do the reverse.

For a first-time upload, the entire site is copied to the server. Subsequent uploads are normally updates that synchronize the local and server-based sites. For updates, you have two choices:

Incremental uploads copy only new site files and site files whose local modification dates are later than the modification dates of the corresponding files on the server. (If both the server file and the local file have been modified and the server file has a later modification date, the local file won't be uploaded.)

Modified-item uploads copy only new site files and site files that have been modified in Adobe GoLive since the previous upload. (If a local file has been modified outside of Adobe GoLive, it won't be uploaded whatever its modification date is.)

You can use either the incremental method or the modified item method for both first-time uploads and subsequent updates.

All of your files will be uploaded to the www directory, as will any subdirectories you create. The one unique system directory that you may want to use is cgi-bin; this directory is reserved for custom Perl/CGI scripts. To make your home page load automatically, name the HTML document "index.html" in lowercase and upload it to the www directory of your account. If you access your site (www.yourdomain.com) and see a page that says, "This site is under construction and will be available soon" that means you have not uploaded your "index.html" file correctly.

As soon as a file is uploaded to the web server, it is available for all to see. If, after uploading a file, you are still unable to see the updated file via your browser, try hitting the "Refresh" or "Reload" button. If that fails, you need to clear both disk and browser cache. This function can be found by selecting Options - Network Preferences in Netscape, and Tools - Internet Options in Internet Explorer. Remember that you must first be connected to the Internet through your local Internet service provider in order to connect to the web server.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

• All passwords, usernames, and file names are case sensitive. Example: if you typed FILENAME.GIF in your HTML document but named your file filename.gif it would not work. They must match up in order for your page to show up properly.
• Any and all files you want to be accessed via a web browser must be placed in your www directory.