The following information is contained within your "Welcome to The Great E-scape" letter and is needed to connect to your Web site via FTP:

USERID
PASSWORD
FTP HOSTNAME
The hostname tells your FTP software to connect to the Web server upon which your Web site resides.

Each time you run Fetch, the New Connection window will be displayed. A profile contains the information needed to connect to your Web site. Creating a will eliminate the need for you to configure the software each time you wish to connect to the Web server via FTP. To create a new profile, select "New Connection..." from the File menu. Next, enter the Host (yourdomain.com), User ID (yourdoma--the username is the first 8 letters in your domain name all lower case), and password for your Web site as illustrated below.

Don't worry about the Directory option right now. When you have your Host, User ID, and Password entered, click on the OK button.

The next window which will pop up will look similar to the one below, except that your domain will be in the pop-up window.

Bookmarking the Connection

With your connection established, under the Customize menu select New Shortcut. A window will pop up called Bookmark Editor, as below. It will already have your name, Host, and User ID filled in. Under Type, choose File from the pop-up menu. If you would like Fetch to remember your password so you won't have to type it in each time, type in your password in the Password field. Now, under the same Customize menu, choose Preferences, and under the General tab, make sure the connection you just entered is selected as the default shortcut. Next time you open up Fetch, your shortcut will be opened automatically and all you'll have to do is click the OK button.

How to Transfer Files

Refer again to the sample window above. You need to double-click on www to get to your Web directory. This is where all your files will be downloaded. This is also where you would create sub-directories.

The only system directory that you may need to use is cgi-bin; this directory is reserved for custom scripts. Name your "home page" HTML document "index.html" in lowercase and upload it to the www directory of your account. To upload a file or files, simply drag them from your hard drive onto the Fetch window when you are in the appropriate directory or subdirectory. Be sure to upload HTML documents and scripts in Text mode and images in BINARY mode. Or to make life easier, click on the Automatic button as shown in the sample window above, and Fetch will decide the proper format. To transfer a file to a subdirectory, double-click the appropriate subdirectory to open it before transferring the desired file(s).

To insure that the Automatic selection works properly, make sure the selections under the Upload tab in the Preferences window looks the same as below.

As soon as a file is uploaded to the Web server, it is available for all to see. If, after uploading a file, you are still unable to see the updated file via Netscape, Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc., you need to hit the "Reload" or "Refresh" button in the browser top tool bar. Remember that you must first be connected to the Internet through your local Internet Service Provider in order to connect to the Web server. If you still can't see the changes then dump your cache and reload the page.

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