Personal Web Server Help

Publish Your Web Site

Publishing documents on your Web site

Changing the folder you want to publish

Stopping the publication of documents from the Microsoft Personal Web Server control panel

Stopping the publication of documents from your home page

Configuring Personal Web Server as an FTP server

To publish the documents on your Web site

Open the Microsoft Personal Web Server control panel and click the Web Site button. The folder that will be published is listed in the Set Up Web Site area. By default, Personal Web Server creates a My Personal Web site folder on your hard disk that can be used to store the files that will be published on your Web site. You can change the folder to be published.
By default, Microsoft Personal Web Server also creates a My Shared Documents folder in the My Personal Web Site folder. Use this folder to store the files that you want visitors to your site to access when they click the Access Shared Documents link.
Click Start. When the control panel reads "Web serving is on," your Web site is up and running.
Until you turn Web serving off, Personal Web Server will continue to publish your Web documents as long as your computer is turned on and connected to a TCP/IP network. If you turn your computer off, your Web server will start publishing as soon as your Macintosh is turned on again.

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To change the folder you want to publish

Open the Microsoft Personal Web Server control panel and click the Web Site button. The folder that is currently being published is listed in the Set Up Web Site area. By default, Personal Web Server creates a My Personal Web site folder on your hard disk that can be used to store the files that will be published on your Web site.
Click the Set Folder button and locate the new folder you would like to publish.

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To stop publishing from the Microsoft Personal Web Server control panel

Open the Microsoft Personal Web Server control panel and click the Web Site button.
Click Stop. After a few seconds, the control panel will read "Web serving is off."
You must click Start to begin publishing your Web documents again.

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To stop publishing from your home page

If you are not sure what your owner name and password are, review the Sharing Setup control panel.
Visit your Web site.
Click the Owner Sign-in link.
Type the owner name and password.
Click the Stop Server link under the Site Administration heading.
Do one of the following:
- Click Stop Now to stop publishing immediately. Anyone currently downloading material from your Web site will be disconnected and their download will be incomplete.
- Type a value in the Stop the Server After text box and click the Stop Accepting Connections to prevent new users from connecting to your site. This option provides a grace period for visitors to your site. Anyone currently downloading material from your Web site, will be able to continue for the set period of time.

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To configure Personal Web Server as an FTP server

Drag the FTP Plug-in icon located in the Personal Web Server folder into the Server Plug-ins folder. (The Server Plug-ins folder is located in the PWS folder in MS Internet inside your System Folder. You can also drag the plug-in into the Server Plug-ins alias that is located in the Personal Web Server folder.)
Configure Macintosh Personal File Sharing access control privileges to determine who is allowed to access your FTP site. For more information about setting up Macintosh Personal File Sharing access privileges, refer to the documentation that came with your Macintosh.
Open Internet Explorer.
In the Address Bar, type the URL for your Web site making sure to append "admin.ftp" to it. For example, if your URL is http://www.yourcompany.com/ you would type: http://www.yourcompany.com/admin.ftp in the Internet Explorer Address box.
Press Return.
Type your user name and password.
Select the Enable FTP Server check box to allow users to connect to your FTP site.
Select the Restrict Access check box to allow users to download items from the specified FTP directory. Users will not be able to upload, delete, or change items on your FTP site.
If you want to allow anonymous users to visit your site, select the Allow Anonymous Logins check box. If this box is checked, anonymous users will have access to folders that allow "Guest" access.
Select the Allow Users To Edit Files check box if you want users with appropriate permissions to be able to save and modify files on your site. If you want all users to only be able to view and download files from your site, leave this check box clear and make sure that the Restrict Access check box in STEP 7 is selected.
Type a value in the Simultaneous Connections box to specify the number of users that can log on at one time. The higher the value, the more system resources the server will require.
If you want your FTP site to use a different folder than your Web site uses, specify the full path to the folder that you want the FTP site to use in the FTP Folder box. Do not replace spaces in the folder or hard drive file name with other characters. For example, type Macintosh HD:ftp root, not Macintosh%20HD:ftp%20root.
Click Submit.

Tip

You can access your FTP settings from your home page. To do so, view your home page in Internet Explorer, click the Owner Sign-in link, and then click the Configure FTP Server link.

Notes

For your FTP site to work properly, make sure that the files and folders in your FTP folder do not contain underscores ( _ ) or special characters, like those that you make by holding down the Option key.
The setting of the Let Me Access Disks Remotely check box in the Microsoft Personal Web Server control panel does not impact any setting in your ftp server.
When the Restrict Access To Web Site check box is selected, MacOS Personal File Sharing must be turned on.

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