Adding your own web pages and other content material.

Files Needed to Compose Your Website

Once MyWebServer is installed you need to add .html, .gif and .jpeg files to your site. These are the files that define the look and feel of your site. MyWebServer does not assist in the creation of HTML files. MyWebServer is just a server. To create HTML files you will need a HTML editor. There are many HTML editors to choose from. Some examples include Adobe Pagemill, Dreamweaver, HoTMetaL Pro, Hot Dog, AOL Press, Microsoft Front Page, Microsoft Office, and yes even Microsoft Notepad.

Where to Save These Files

Normally MyWebServer will install to C:\Program Files\MyWebServer. If you did not specify a root (top) directory when you installed MyWebServer a default root directory called WWWRoot was created for you in the C:\Program Files\MyWebServer directory( the path the the root directory is therefore C:\Program Files\MyWebServer\WWWRoot). The root directory is the top directory of your web server. Your HTML/GIF/JPEG files should be stored in the root directory or in or in a sub directory you create within that root directory. 

If you are not sure where your root directory is located you can check it or change it on the MyWebServer ServerPropertiesPage. the field it is stored in is called "Root Directory for Web Site:". To view your ServerPropertiesPage Click Here (if you are running MyWebServer).

The directory specified as "Root Directory for Web Site:" is the main place that you will place your files. Your home page should be stored in the root directory and should be given the name index.html or any other name you specify in the "Default Document:" field of the ServerPropertiesPage. This is the first file that will normally be displayed with someone accesses your web site.

You can also create sub directories inside of your root directory. These sub directories can contain web pages, graphics or any kind of file you want to share. Some webmasters also create additional directories to hold certain types of documents. For example it is very common to locate all your images in a directory called 'images'. Or all the java classes in a subdir named 'classes'. To create any of these directories, simply create them inside your root directoryt.

Any directories that do not contain a default document ( a file named index.html or any other name you specify in the "Default Document:" field of the ServerPropertiesPage) will display the directory contents when they are addressed by a URL (Uniform Resource Locator). For example if you create a sub directories named 'subdir' you can access the 'default document' in 'subdir' by using the address 'http://MySite/subdir. But if there is no default document in that directory all the files and sub directories in that directory will be listed and available for download when this url is requested by a user.

When you installed MyWebServer a default document (home web page) was created for you in the root directory. The name of this default home page file is index.html it includes the homepage.html file and the MyWebServer Virtual Tool Bar file MWS/Navigator.html. The homepage.html file is your home page. The MyWebServer Virtual Tool Bar file MWS/Navigator.html is a "virtual file", that is dynamic data that is returned by the MyWebServer program whenever a request for the MWS/Navigator.html file (page) is made by a user. The Virtual Tool Bar is a series of navigation buttons that take you to the MyWebServer ASpplication pages.

You can these or any html files with an HTML Editing program or a word processing program like Notepad or WordPad.

For some pre made web page iseas see  Tools or Downloads.