Publishing Site

Publishing your site as an anonymous user

If you do not have a Plesk 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 register in Plesk Sitebuilder and 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 Plesk 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 Plesk Sitebuilder Wizard. You will need this link, if you decide to register in Plesk Sitebuilder and upgrade your temporary site to a regular site.
• Any supplementary information considered to be important by the Plesk Sitebuilder administrator, for example, instructions on how you can get an account in Plesk Sitebuilder and buy hosting.

If you wish to send this information to your e-mail address, enter the address in the field at the bottom of the page and click Send.

To open the trial site, click Visit Site. The site is available during its life-time period, which is determined by your Plesk Sitebuilder administrator.

Publishing your site as a regular Plesk Sitebuilder user

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

To publish your site:

1. Go to the Publish step.
2. If your Plesk 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.

   Plesk 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 Plesk Sitebuilder provider):
   • FTP - publishing site to an FTP server.
   • Virtuozzo - publishing site to a Virtuozzo Container.
   • 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 the 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 Virtuozzo publication mode, provide the following parameters:
   • Service Container is the IP address or domain name of the Service Container.
   • Port is the port for connecting to the Service Container.
   • Container identifier is the digital identifier of the Container on the hardware node.
   • Web site URL is the address the site will be available at after publication.
   • Working directory is the absolute path within the Container to the folder where the site files will be stored after publication.
   • In the Login and Password fields, specify the credentials for accessing the Service Container.
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.