SOLUTION:

These instructions work with Netscape version 2.0 and above.

1. Open a URL of ftp://alias@www.dpo.uab.edu
   Note: alias is the name you registered in the UAB Electronic PhoneBook and is also your DPO login or user ID.

2. click on the directory named web

3. upload the files
   • with Netscape 2.0, click File/Upload-File
   • with Netscape 2.0 for Win95, use Windows Explorer to Drag & Drop the files onto the Navigator screen. The upload is automatic.

Once your files have been transferred to your web site, they can be viewed with the URL

where alias is your DPO user ID

HINTS:

• The web server first looks for files named index.html or home.html (or index.htm or home.htm). If you use one of these as the file name for your home page, your URL, as written above, will open your home page. If there is no file with that name in your directory, you will see your files listed by name, instead.

  If you name your main page file something else, link mypage.html, you will have to use the URL

  http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~alias/mypage.html

  to view it.
• Files should have the correct extensions:
  • .html or .htm for web page files
  • .jpg or .gif for graphics
  .
• If you are transferring files from a Macintosh or a Windows machine. Here are some very important things to remember.
  1. UNIX is case sensitive. ( Index.html is not the same as index.html)

  2. UNIX does not understand filenames with spaces in them.

  3. UNIX does not understand Mac Binary.

  4. Although UNIX filenames can have virtually any character in them it is BEST to stay away from special characters that UNIX might interpreted as a command trigger. It is highly recommended that you stick to upper and lower case a-z and 0-9 and dash and underscore and periods.