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
Hi, Would like to check that do you have a guide on how to upload a PHP website with MySQL database to Arvixe? I am able to connect to the remote serve successfully but database connection were not able to establish.
Hi, you can use this walk-through to get started: http://blog.arvixe.com/how-to-use-fillzilla-to-upload-your-website-files/