Publishing Site

Publishing your site as an anonymous user

If you do not have a Sitebuilder account and work with the program in demo mode, the site you create is temporary and cannot be published on the Internet until you buy hosting. After you click Publish, you will be provided with the information about your site and with the instructions about how you can publish it. To keep this information, you can send it to your e-mail. The e-mail will include the following information:

• The life-time of your trial site, i.e. the period of time it will be stored on the Sitebuilder server.
• The site preview link. The link to your site as it is displayed to the visitors. You may send this link to your friends, for example.
• The link to your temporary site in editable mode. This link opens your site in Sitebuilder Wizard. You will need this link, if you decide to register in Sitebuilder and make your temporary site regular.
• Any supplementary information considered to be important by the Sitebuilder administrator, for example, instructions on how you can get an account in Sitebuilder and buy hosting.

To open the trial site, click Visit Site. The site is fully functional, and allows you to perform all operations allowed by modules, except for placing orders in your online store. The site is active during its life-time period, which is determined by your Sitebuilder administrator.

Publishing your site as a regular Sitebuilder user

If you are a registered Sitebuilder user, follow the guideline below to publish your site.

To publish your site:

1. Go to the Publish step.
2. If your Sitebuilder administrator has already specified the publishing settings for your site (or you have done it yourself in your Administrator Panel), then just click Publish and publication begins. If publishing settings are not specified, perform steps 3-8.
3. Click Edit publishing settings.

   Sitebuilder administrator can prohibit users from editing publishing settings. In that case publishing settings will be displayed to you in read-only mode.

4. Select a publishing mode (the list of available publishing modes is configured by your Sitebuilder administrator):
   • FTP - publishing site to an FTP server.
   • VPS - publishing site to a virtual private server.
   • XCopy - publishing site using the XCOPY technology.
5. If you select FTP publishing mode, provide the following parameters:
   • Host is the IP address or domain name of the FTP server.
     • If the maximum number of hosts allowed by your plan is limited, select a host from the list. This list consists of hosts included in your service plan.
     • If the number of hosts allowed by your plan is unlimited, you can specify any FTP server you have at your disposal (make sure that the server meets the requirements).
   • Port is the port for connecting to the specified FTP server.
   • Web site URL is the address the site will be available at after publication.
   • Working directory is the path on your FTP server to the folder where the site files will be stored after publication.
   • If the FTP server is password protected, specify the access credentials in the Login and Password fields.
6. If you select XCOPY publication mode, provide the following parameters:
   • Host is an IP address, domain name, or machine name of the publishing server.
   • Web site URL is the address the site will be available at after publication.
   • Working directory is a name of the share on the server and the path to the files of your site. Do not include the name of the server into this path. For example, Sitebuilder\Site1
7. If you select VPS publication mode, provide the following parameters:
   • Physical server is an IP address, domain name, or machine name of the computer running a virtual server.
   • Port is a port for connecting to the specified virtual server.
   • VPS identifier is an integer number of a virtual server identifying it on the physical server.
   • Web site URL is the address the site will be available at after publication.
   • Working directory is the absolute path on the virtual server to the folder where the site files will be stored after publication.
   • If the server is password protected, specify the access credentials in the Login and Password fields.
8. Click Publish. The progress bar displaying the status of publication appears.

   After successful publishing, your site immediately goes live, and its full functionality is available to visitors. You can proceed to your site by clicking Visit Site.

If next time you come to publish your site, you'll find that the publishing settings have been changed since the last publication, you can revert them to their previous state. To do so, click Revert Publishing Settings at the bottom of the form with the publishing setting.