Before you can begin creating a web site, you must find somewhere to store it. Your ISP may give you free web space for personal pages, or else you may have to find somewhere else. There are many places that give out free web site space, or others you can pay for. Some popular free ones are listed below:

Free Web Sites
Angelfire	5 mb web space.
AOL	Must be an America Online member.
Delphi	??
Fortune City	20 mb web space and free email address.
FreeNation	7 mb, cgi/ssi, counters, guestbook, etc.
Free Prohosting	10 mb web space, cgi/ssi, and free email.
Geocities	The most popular free web site provider. 11 mb disk space, free guest book, counter, form mail, etc. FTP or EZ WWW File uploading, and free email.
Infoseek	7 mb, Easy HTML editor.
Tripod	11 mb web space.
Xoom	11 mb web space.

Uploading Your Pages

The most common method of uploading files to a server is through FTP (File Transfer Protocol). To do this, you will need to download an FTP program (It is possible to FTP files through telnet or the DOS 7.0 FTP command also). Some good FTP programs for Windows are WS_FTP, AceFTP, or Cute FTP. A good Macintosh FTP program is Fetch .

Here is an example of how to upload to Geocities using WS_FTP:

Do not login as anonymous. Use your username as the User ID and your password as the password. Clicking OK will bring you to the screen below.

To send files to the server, click to select them and then click on the right arrow to send. Make sure you send all graphics in binary mode and all text files (html, txt, dat, cgi, pl, etc.) in ASCII. To create a new directory on the remote machine, click on the MkDir button on the right pane. The same idea applies for deleting files. To rename the file differently on the server, hold in ctrl when clicking on the right arrow to transfer it.

CGI Script Uploading

When uploading cgi scripts to a cgi-bin, you must be very careful to upload them in ASCII mode or the scripts will not work. Also, the permissions of the files must be set correctly. The command to change file permissions is the unix chmod command. This is how it is done in WS_FTP:

First, right click on the file you would like to set the permissions for. You will get a popup menu similar to the one on the left. Now click on chmod (UNIX). You will get the window below:

When you download a script, it will tell you what to chmod each file at. The problem is that it will give only a three digit number. This is what some common 3-number combinations stand for:

Number	Owner	Group	Other
644	rw-	r--	r--
664	rw-	rw-	r--
666	rw-	rw-	rw-
700	rwx	---	---
755	rwx	r-x	r-x
775	rwx	rwx	r-x
777	rwx	rwx	rwx

This is how the number combinations are calculated. Read is worth 4, write is worth 2, and execute is worth 1. The different properties in each section are then added together. Owner takes the first digit, group takes the second digit, and other takes the third digit.

Cute FTP is better than WS_FTP when it comes to the chmod command because Cute FTP allows you to set permissions the same way WS_FTP does, or you can merely type in the 3-number combination.

This page was created by Scott Andersen, Eric Schroeder, and Drew Viersen.