Connect to bi.org, using the username & password that you were given when you first got the account. You need to use your username/password - you won't be able to login anonymously, which is how most FTP packages are configured by default. Email the WebMaster with a new password if you've forgotten your password or would like to change it. Remember to be careful about who you give your password to. Anyone with the password can change or even delete all your pages.
If you have a drag & drop FTP package, it should be a simple matter to copy pages onto the server. Otherwise you'll use a command like PUT filename.html - check your FTP package manual for more details, or try just typing HELP if you are in the FTP program.
Your main page must be called index.html. For example;
all give the same page to a browser. When publishing your main URL, give the middle form (with the trailing '
/' character, because that way you avoid an extra redirect message from the server: an access to http://bi.org/~nas will cause the server to send a redirect message back to the browser telling it to go to http://bi.org/~nas/. This is true of almost all servers on the Internet, and so it makes sense to publish the correct URL to reduce these extra delays when fetching pages.
Make sure that you have the correct filenames for your pages. Use lower case file extensions. eg, .html .jpg .gif & .txt. Don't use DOS-like file extensions such as .HTM because the server won't recognise the page as HTML.
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