How to Publish Your WebMatrix Site on Arvixe

Written by Arian Jahansouz Tuesday, 18 September 2012

This article will give you a step by step guide on how to sign up for an Arvixe account and publish your site using WebMatrix for free. To begin, click here to go to the Arvixe WebMatrix hosting page, then follow these steps:

1) Arvixe offers a free WebMatrix sub-domain to use. Enter your desired sub-domain name in the box.

2) Click Continue

3) Enter your contact information into the appropriate boxes

4) Enter your account information into the appropriate boxes

5) Check the box to agree to the Terms of Services and Acceptable Use policies

6) Click Continue

7) You will now receive a confirmation page saying that your order has been placed and that you will shortly receive an email confirming this

8 ) You will soon receive an email with your hosting account information

9) Scroll down to Control Panel Information and click on the  Address link

10) Enter your account username and password that you entered when signing up and then click Sign In

11) From the Web menu, select Web Sites

12) Click on the website that you registered

13) Click on the Publishing tab

14) Enter a desired password and confirm it. Then click Enable

15) Once available, click Download Publishing Profile for this Web site. Save this file somewhere that is easily accessible.

16) Open the website you are ready to publish in WebMatrix

17) Click Publish

18 ) Click Import publish profile

19) Find and open the publishing profile that you just downloaded

20) Click Validate Connection

21) Once the connection is validated, click Save

22) Click Continue to verify that the server is compatible

23) Click Continue again once the server compatibility has been verified

24) You will now receive a list of files that you need to publish to make your site run properly. Click Continue to upload these files.

25) You will now see a bar at the bottom of your screen showing you that the files are being uploaded

26) You will then receive a confirmation that your site has been published online

This concludes how to publish your WebMatrix site on Arvixe