Setting up the "Publish" feature in Mozilla Composer.
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Assumptions

• You have installed Mozilla Composer.
  Available at: http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/
• You have a copy of your website in a folder in your computer.
• These settings will work in the entire site if you keep your web pages in one folder only. Otherwise, you will need to change the subdirectory information according to the location of each web page.

Setting Up Your Site

1. Open the Mozilla Web Browser
2. On the Mozilla Web Browser window, click on the File menu and then click on Open File...

Figure 1. The file menu in Mozilla.

3. Go to the location of your website folder, open it, and choose a file to edit. If you want to open the home page, click on the index.html (or index.htm) file.

Figure 2. Choosing a file to open in Mozilla

4. Once your page is open in the Mozilla Web Browser, click on the File menu and click on Edit page.

Figure 3. Edit a page in Mozilla.

5. The previous step will open the Mozilla Composer window. Mozilla Composer will allow you to edit the web pages in your website. On the Mozilla Composer window we click on the File menu and then click on Publish As.

Figure 4. Publish As... feature in Mozilla.

6. On the settings tab, fill all the information as follows:
   1. Site Name: Assign a name to your site, it does not need to be specific.
   2. Publishing address: Your web host will provide this. (e.g. ftp://yoursite.org)
   3. HTTP Address: The address of your website.
   4. Login information: Your web host will also provide this information

Figure 5. Publish Settings in Mozilla Composer.

7. If your website needs to be in the public_html folder (some hosting services require this) or if you have your files in a different folder you need to adjust one more setting in the Publish tab:

8. When done, click on the publish button.

Figure 7. Dialog Showing a Successful Transfer.