FTP Access to Your Web Site

FTP access to your Web site requires that you obtain an application that can perform FTP (file transfer protcol) movement of files between your PC (or Macintosh) and your the LiveZone server. CuteFTP, Navigator Gold, Fetch, and FrontPage are popular programs that perform FTP.

The FTP settings you must know are:

• FTP site: this is the hostname of your Web site. For LiveZone Starter clients, use www.LiveZone.com. All other clients should use the full domain name of their web site (for example, www.yourDomain.com).
• Username: this is the username you selected when we created your Web site.
• Password: the password you selected.
• Directory: leave this blank unless you know what you're doing. By not specifying a directory, the FTP program will automatically position you within your Web site's main document directory.

When you transfer HTML documents to the server, you must transfer them as "text" files. For those who want to know: this ensures that the CR or CR/LF end-of-line sequences are translated to the NL that our Unix server expects.

Graphic files (.gif .jpg .jpeg and such) must be transfered as "raw binary", "raw", or "binary". This ensures that the FTP program will not perform any translation of the file contents.

Your Web Site Directories

If you don't specify a directory when starting an FTP session, you'll be automatically placed in your own directory. This FTP directory is the "unnamed" document root directory of your Web site.

LiveZone Starter
LiveZone Basic

LiveZone Starter and Basic Web sites share a common FTP file heirarchy, with each Web site assigned its own directory. Although you can see other directory names, you can't access any directory except your own.

Within your Web site directory, the top-level directory contains the htdocs and admin sub-directories.

htdocs is where you place your HTML files; you may create sub-directories within htdocs if you wish. Any directories and files you place at the top-level (as "sibblings" to htdocs and admin) are protected from direct access by the Web server.

LiveZone Plus
LiveZone Premier

Your FTP access permits you to browse the entire directory structure of your virtual Web server. The following directories are present:

htdocs

Your Web server's document root directory for your main (or only) domain. This is where you place your HTML files. This is the only top-level directory that is directly accessible through the Web server.

cgi-bin

maps

errors

admin

bin

dev

etc

usr

www.livezone.com

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