Once you have finished writing your web page, it is time to make it
available to the rest of the web.
Serving your web page involves three major steps
Transferring your HTML document from your personal computer to the
web server where it will be served from
Making sure that people on the web have permission to read the
document from the web server
Letting people know how to find your web page
Unfortunately, there are about a zillion little specialized features
that sysadmins can have on their servers that makes this process
confusing and specific to their system, so this discussion must remain
fairly generic.
In order to transfer your HTML document to a web server, you will
probably use some form of "FTP"client. You will then connect to your
web server using the address, username, and password given to you by
your sysadmin.
Once connected, you will transfer the HTML file from your local
directory to your web directory specified by your sysadmin. I
recommend transferring in ASCII mode, but with HTML it does not matter
as much as it does with CGI scripts
Once your files have been transferred, you must make sure that the
permissions are set correctly if the web server is running a UNIX OS.
To do this, you should use the chmod command with syntax something like
the following:
chmod 644 myhtmlfile.html
Notice that you should use the .html (or .htm for some servers)
extension for HTML files.
Once you have set the permissions so that people on the web have
access to your files, you are ready to tell people what
URL they should
type into their browser's location window in order to look at your
page. Your sysadmin should help you define the URL.
