Technical Support Manual - Putting your business WebPage on MISNet

In order to place your commercial web page on MISNet you need to move it to our server. You can do this by using an FTP Client. If you need help with configuring an ftp program email us back with information about your Operating System and your Web Browser. The following steps should make this process simple for you.

1. Make sure the filename for your webpage is called "index.html".

2. Make a connection to MISNet just as if you were going to browse the web.

3. Using an FTP program connect to the host "ftp.misn.com" using your own username and password to login (please remember usernames and passwords are case sensitive).

4. After the connection is made you will be in your own home directory, within your directory there is a subdirectory named public_html.  You must proceed into the public_html directory.

5. Now that you are in your public_html directory, move your webpage and any files that it points to (gifs, JPG's, wav's, etc...) over to this directory.

6. After you have made sure that the webpage is named "index.html" and that all the appropriate files have been completely copied, the page will be updated automatically and you will be able to view it by going to to http://www.misn.com/~username with your web browser (i.e. - if your username was 'mark', your web page's URL would be 'http://www.misn.com/~mark'.

7. At this point you should see be able to view your webpage. If you have any problems doing so, do not hesitate to contact us either by Email helpdesk@misn.com or by phone (775-4638).

Some commonly made mistakes:

• Make sure that the main file of your web page is called 'index.html' or 'index.htm' (Case DOES matter).
  
  
• Make sure that there are no other files named 'index.*' in your home directory (for example, index.htm.backup, index.html.first, index.htm_, etc...). The computer looks for the first file named index, regardless of it's suffix, and uses that file as the homepage.
  
  
• Make sure that there are no spaces in your filenames. This can cause a problem if you do not refer to the same exact filename while writing your HTML.
  
  
• Make sure that if you use long filenames, you look in your home directory after transferring all of the files. Many times, when Windows transfers files with long file names (longer than 8 characters) it shortens the name of the file and inserts a tilde (~) to show the filename should be longer. You can rename files on the FTP server.
  
  

Also note: your /public_html directory will be publicly readable (meaning that anyone will be able to read the files that are in that directory) so please do not store files in that directory you do not want others to see.