Sunday, July 8, 2012

FREE HOSTING TUTORIAL

STEP 1 : 
                 Prepare content to host, in this tutorial we are going to learn about PHP based web hosting. So we can prepare sample file with the extension of ".html" or ".php". Here I'm going to host a simple ".html" file.

save the following code as "index.html":
<html>
<head><title>Hello World!</title></head>
<body>
 <div style="text-align: center; font-size: xx-large;">Hello World !</div>
</body>
</html>


STEP 2 : 
                 Register with any free web hosting providers.

Some free web host providers,
Here 000webhost used for show demo. For register with 000webhost click here.
After register login to 000webhost, it will display list of domains that you have created:

Home Page
For this tutorial I use the domain name "justtrythis.comli.com", click "Go to CPanel" correspond to it.
It will display the CPanel like this:

Cpanel page

STEP 3 : 
               Download and install FileZilla(FTP client). It will ask for HOST, FTP USERNAME, FTP PASSWORD,

FileZilla
to get it, go to CPanel page and click "View FTP Details" options,

FTP Login Details

STEP 4 : 
                 Upload the content to remote server. Open FileZilla, enter FTP HOST, USERNAME, PASSWORD that we got in the previous step,

Login to FTP server
In local system browse "index.html" that we have created in step-1, then follow the steps in this screenshot,

Hosting
that's all we have successfully host a very basic web page. Now any can visit our site at "http://justtrythis.comli.com/" or "http://justtrythis.comli.com/index.html"