PLESK Windows Tutorials Uploading files to your site
1. In order to upload your files into your web space, you will need a program known as an FTP client. Essentially this program allows you to connect to our servers/your new space.
For this example we have used a program called CuteFTP 4.2 you can get a free copy of this program at
http://www.download.com/.
2. Once you have downloaded and installed cuteFTP, you must start it up and the first screen you get will require the following info ...
a. Label for site: This can be anything you like (e.g. My first site)
b. FTP host address: This will take the form of
ftp://ftp.yourname.com/
c. FTP site username: This will take the form of something999
d. FTP site password: This will the password you were given
e. FTP connection port: This should be set to 21
f. Click on the edit button.
3. The next screen shows information that you MUST input else your files will be uploaded to the wrong folder and you wont see them on the web.
a. make sure the passive box is clearly ticked and not just grayed out.
b. make sure you set default remote directory to /. This is very essential otherwise your site will not work when you upload your files.
c. Please Note: If you are logging into a SUBDOMAIN of your site then you can leave this blank, but to upload to your main site you will need to put /.
d. Click on OK.
4.Once you have clicked OK as above, you will come back to the screen described before. Click Connect
IMPORTANT: Once you have clicked connect as shown above, you will come to a screen that looks like the one described below:
The files you see on the left side are the files on your computer, so open the folder with your web pages and just drag them over into the HTTPDOCS folder. Make sure that your first page is named index.html and that's its enjoy your new site!!
Publishing your site with FrontPage
1. The first step is to open FrontPage 2000. Once open, click on "file" on the top menu and then select "open web".
2. On the next window : You should now select the folder on your computer that you have saved all your web pages in, in most cases this folder is "My Webs".
3. Next you click on "File" again on the FrontPage top menu and sect "Publish".
4. On the next window : Type in your full domain name in the box wereit says "Specify the location to publish your web to" as an example "http://www.mydomain.com" and then click on "Publish".
5. On the next window : You will be prompted for your login details, please use the username and password that we provided you when you first signed up and click "OK".
That it, your site will now be uploaded - "published" - and you will be able to view it on the Internet.
Setting up emails - The server configuration
1. The first step is to create the email account that you want in the control pane. Login into your control panel using the information that was sent to you when you signed up, then follow the steps below. Please note that more help is available in the control panel itself incase you get stuck.
2. In the control panel click on the "MAIL" button.
3. On the next page: If you want to create an email address (e.g.
fred@mydomain.com) you type in fred in the "MAIL NAME" box and the tick the "MAIL BOX" option. Type in a password you want to use for your email account, scroll down the page and click "UPDATE".
Now that you have created your email account in the control panel. You will now need to set it up on your computer so that you can start sending and receiving your email. We have a step by step guide for Outlook Express, if you use any other, please refer to its help file.
Setting up emails - Configuring Outlook
1. With Outlook open, click on "tools" and then click on "account".
2. On the next window, click on the "mail" tab and then click on "add" and select "mail".
3. On the next window: type in the name you want people to see when they get your email, in our example we have used "fred", then click on "next".
4. On the next window: type in the email address, in our example "fred@mydomain.com" then click on "next" button to proceed.
5. On the next window: type in the information required to connect to our server as shown below
incoming mail: mail.mydomain.com
outgoing mail: mail.mydomain.com
Please note: You should replace "mydomain.com" with your own domain name.
6. On the next window: type in your username and password, please note the username is the same as the email name so in our example.
Username: fred
Password: xxxxx
Click on "next" to proceed. and on the next window click on "finish"
7. Please make sure you have selected the option on your mail client "My server requires Authentication "
Thats it, you are now ready to start using your email address.
Setting up a DSN Less Connection to your access database.
1. Use this asp script to understand how DSN less connection works.
PHP Code:
<%@ Language=VBScript%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<%
mes = ""
IsSuccess = false
sFile = Trim(Request.Form("txtFile"))
sUser = Trim(Request.Form("txtUser"))
if Request("__action")="TestDB" then
TestDB()
end if
Sub TestDB()
sPassword = Trim(Request.Form("txtPassword"))
Err.Clear()
on error resume next
FilePath = Server.MapPath(sFile)
if len(Err.Description)=0 then
Set objConn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
if len(Err.Description)<>0 then
mes = " " & Err.Description & " MS Access connection can't be established!"
else
objConn.ConnectionString = _
"PROVIDER=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;DATA SOURCE=" & FilePath & _
";User ID=" & sUser & _
";Password=" & sPassword
objConn.Open
if len(Err.Description)<>0 then
mes = " " & Err.Description & " MS Access connection can't be established!"
else
mes = " MS Access connection succesfull established!"
IsSuccess = true
end if
end if
else
mes = " " & Err.Description
end if
Set objConn = Nothing
End sub
Sub Alert(html)
if IsSuccess then
Response.Write "<div class='testRelults' id='testSuccessful'><span class='testResult'>Success:</span>" & html & "</div>"
else
Response.Write "<div class='testRelults' id='testFailed'><span class='testResult'>Fail:</span>" & html & "</div>"
end if
End Sub
%
2. In this specific example, using the test database test.mbd, you perform a SQL query on it and display the first row.
3. The full path to your account is d:\inetpub\vhosts\, HOWEVER, depending on your server on which you are hosted, it may change. See this linkfor more info.
4. You must replace YOUR-DOMAIN.COM with your purchased domain name.
5. For testing, you can download a zip arhive with the testdb.mdb file here.
6. If you need to run INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE queries you need to login into your control panel and give the mdb file full permission to the psaserv user. Use the File Manager section from the Plesk Control Panel to do this.
Linear Mode
