Web Page Publishing with FTP

There are many ways to publish your website.  Below you will find information on connecting to your website via FTP.  Often times these same settings will be used for many commercially available web publishing programs like Adobe's Dreamweaver, Amaya, and Kompozer, just to name a few. You can find information for publishing your site using Microsoft's FrontPage or Web Expressions here.

FTP Settings
The following table will help you identify which settings are right for you.  You will need to substitute yourdomain.com with the domain name of your website.  If you find you are still having problems, please contact our office at 816-221-4658 or send us an email at support@kcnet.com.

* On some programs the Host Directory may also be listed as 'initial host directory', 'initial remote directory', or 'www directory'.  If you are still unsure which is relevant to your software, please consult the application's support documentation.

Additional information can be found in our Frequently Asked Questions section.

Uploading a Personal Home Page
http://www.kcnet.com/~username

Included with your personal dialup account is web site space on our server for your personal (non-commercial) web page. We ask that all pages posted in the personal area be non-commercial and presentable to the general public.  We reserve the right to remove a home page that doesn't comply with our policy.  For more information on our policies at KCnet, please review our Terms of Service.

The standard personal home page included with your account is hosted on a Unix based web server which does not support Microsoft® FrontPage® 2000 extensions, although you may still use FrontPage for creating and publishing your web site to your standard home page.  Please refer to the Microsoft article Using FrontPage without the Server Extensions  for a discussion on which FrontPage elements to avoid. 

If the additional FrontPage features are required, we offer a personal home page upgrade for $2/month on a Windows NT server which includes the latest FrontPage extensions.  For help with publishing to your personal home page with FrontPage please visit our FrontPage help section.

If you are interested in publishing a commercial page, please contact our staff for assistance in acquiring a commercial site.

Once your pages are created, you will need to upload them to our web server.   You will more than likely need an FTP client.  For Windows 3.x and Win95/NT users, we recommend CuteFTP.  For the Macintosh, try either Fetch or Anarchie.   Using an FTP client, you will need to connect to our FTP server, ftp.kcnet.com, and login with your username and password.  Once connected your current directory location will default to /username.  This is the directory that is setup to hold your web files.  Make sure you are publishing to this directory by leaving the 'Initial Remote Directory' box within CuteFTP blank.  Refer to the CuteFTP example.

CuteFTP Screen Shots

Many of the new HTML editors like Netscape Gold and Composer have built-in publishing functionality.  This allows one to create and publish from the same program.  If you use one of these programs, you will probably be asked for a View (browse) location and a Publish location.  The View location is just the address of your web site, http://www.kcnet.com/~username.

The Publish location is the location of our FTP server and the path to your home directory, ftp://ftp.kcnet.com/username.   Refer to the Netscape Gold and Netscape Composer examples.

Netscape Gold & Composer Screen Shots

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The following information is provided for legacy purposes and will not pertain to most users.

Uploading Commercial Web Sites
http://www.kcnet.com/mycompany or http://www.mycompany.com

There are several ways to upload or publish your files to the web server.  One easy method is using an ftp client such as CuteFTP or Fetch.   When copying files with ftp, you will need to know the server name and the directory path of the target location where you intend to put your files along with your valid username and password.

These instructions are for publishing a commercial web site on a KCnet's UNIX web servers.  

• If your web site is a kcnet.com domain web site with a URL such as:

http://www.kcnet.com/mycompany

then the server name will be www.kcnet.com

• If your web site is a virtual host site (your own domain name) with a URL such as:

http://www.mycompany.com

then the server name will be www.mycompany.com 

if you have multiple virtual sites hosted with KCnet using the same username and password, once logged into the server you will need to change directories to:

/mycompany.com

If your commercial web site is hosted on one of KCnet's NT web servers with FrontPage access, you should publish your site with FrontPage, if you need assistance please visit our FrontPage help section.  By default, NT hosted sites do not come with FTP access enabled.  If you require FTP access, please contact one of our tech support representatives to setup this option.

• If your web site is a kcnet.com domain web site with a URL such as:

http://www.kcnet.com/mycompany

then, for security reasons, you will not be able to access your site via FTP.

• If your web site is a virtual host site (your own domain name) with a URL such as:

http://www.mycompany.com

then the server name will be www.mycompany.com and the initial remote directory path will be:

/mycompany.com

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