PUBLISH a website with website software

Hi all geeks!

OK so I designed the website with Mobirise software ( now. My question: HOW DO I PUBLISH IT PRACTICALLY ?

PLEASEEEE I am not IT expert so please if u want to help give me a concrete instruction not just :"you should publish it on a server" etc. Tell me how do I do it step by step.

Extremely appreciateee .. best wishes
FF From Sweden
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  • Hi @farhadnoruzi ,
    Don't worry - we've all been there where you're standing. I'll try explaining as detailed as I can. Here we go:

    1. You've probably already published your web site project to a local hard drive, didn't you? Now in order to make it visible to the world you need two things prior the actuall upload process to take place. These are called domain and a hosting server:

    - the hosting server is the actuall phisicall place where your website's file will "live" in order to get accessed and read from the users around the world. This is basically a computer working 24/7 with some specialized programs installed in it and somebody taking care all the time everything's working fine. Think of it as the hose your files will reside.

    - the domain address is the words typed in users browser address bar causing the browser to display your site - or the internet address of your site. If the hosting is a house, the domain is the street address of this house - this way the visitors will know where to come visiting.

    These two get purchased for a period in order to be used together for displaying your or anibody's website. Google something like "best hosting sollutions" and pick one best fitting your needs - they basicaly sale them in a pack hosting+domain with some bonuses for the first year. A good ides would be looking for something locally - meaning you'll have to look for something like "bästa webbhotell lösning" for example ;) This is what I do - I'm working with a provider located in my own city - I can freely call and lean on their support at any time 24/7 and frankly most of the cals I make are in the dark part of the day =)

    2. Once purchased a web hosting sollution head to your admin panel and look for few particullar lines of information about your service like: FTP host, FTP User name and FTP password . Here is a screenshot from my admin panel - sorry for the cyrilic - as I said the service is local

    once you find these - just keep this browser tab open - you'll need it in a minute ;)

    3. OK you have a locally published web site, you have a hosting, let's get you the software making the connection. Actually Mobirise website software has a built in publish to FTP functionality but I think publishing locally and uploading via FTP client is better since upon the local publish process the Builder also creates a mobirise.project file which along with the additional folders contain all the data needed for Importing your project for editting later on. Personally I'm using the publish function as Save - I'm publishing at any significant stage my project reaches or before any risky experiment so I can easily roll back if something goes not the way I expected. So I think using an FTP client is better. Most of us here use something called Filezilla - it's free, easy, convenient and works. You can download it from over here:

    Once you install and open it you'll see something like this:

    In order to connect to your servr you'll need filling out the data from your server's admin panel in the highlited in yellow fields. Don't worry if you don't see a port explicitly provided - basically Filezilla will figure it out itself. Once you've filled the correct details (copy / pasting seems a good idea to me ) hit Quickconnect. If it does not connect from the first time - make sure you placed the correct details at their places - make sure no extra spaces are being copied and pasted - this matters.

    4. Once connected you'll see something like this - on the left are your local files, and to the right is your server's root folder. Inside it you need to find the root folder for the site - something like "www" or "public_html"

    this is the location you should place the files from your local publish directory - just browse towards it in the left side panel, select all the files inside and drag them in your "www", "public_html" or whatever the main dir is called (if you can't figure it out yourself asking the hosting team or reading the FAQ section of the hosting provider's site is quite in order) ;)

    Note Let's say you've purchased found the main fir at your server and uploaded your files there - typing in your brouser's window will display the contents of the file index.html located in your site's main dir - this is your front page. If you designed it later on - just rename the pages in your Mobirise Project, publish locally and repeat the drill.

    if you need something like you need to create a filder called infoat the same level with the main filder. For example on the screenshots the main site is and the folders fb, mutti, facedes and so on display as subdomains in browser

    these are called subdomains and can hold an entirely independent web site as in the example above.

    If you create a subfolder inside your main site's dir (like "www" in the example) it will display something like this same thing counts for the subdomains.

    Well that's basically it - you were done right before the Note part, but I decided including it just to make things more clear. Hopefully now you know how to publish your site online. Make sure you write back with a link to it over here =)

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  • Thanks a million Filyov! :-) and funny with your Swedish ;)

    So this seems a bit more complicated than what I thought but your explanations were very good.

    So, I will try it later when I have time and let you know dear.

    Thanks again for your care and concise answer.

    All the best,
  • This person filyov is so kind that you can see him all over the forum helping people. You are really too good filyov. Cheers
  • Thanks guys! These words are the greatest reward! =)

    Btw last night I thought about it and it decided exploring how exactly the built in Mobirise publish to ftp option works. Here is what came out of this quest ;)

    I just took the last thing I was playing with in Builder the other day when I was looking for the new features in v.3.07.3 and went to the Publish option. Selected the ftp option and hit the EDIT key - I found it a bit confusing at first since you can start typing immediately in all the fields and just then hit the button creatin a new server but the sequence I found working for me was a bit different.

    I first told the app to creaet a new server and it automatically chose the port number of 21 - obviously the default one and started generating the topmost string with the extra datails for my ftp account which I took from my hosting's admin panel - just like in the previous example. After filling in all the details - don't look for an OK button - just click on CLOSE to return to the previous screen

    Now for the field with "Root folder" as a placeholder. it refers to the root folder of your hosting server - the one getting initially loaded when you connect Filezilla web software in the previous example. So you'll need to type in the name of the root folder for your site - "www" from the previous example. If you want to publish to a subdomain folder - like from the previous post you need to point the builder to the subdomain folder - in this case "facades". If you type in a non existing folder name a folder with this name will get created and if you need a subfolder - define it like this: "mySitesRotFolder\SubFolder-1"

    A little difference from the Filezilla behaviour - when you try to upload to a folder already containing files named this way the FTP client asks you how the handle the duplicates and the built-in ftp ulpoader directly replaces the files on server with these from the current build. And since as I get it its a local publish / upload everything published one servr procedure - on the specified location you also get the mobirise.project file.

    Basically that's it - I love the way Mobirise handles things in generall but I still think publishing to a local folder and just then uploading your builds with an external FTP client like FIlezilla or something is the better practice but I did this little inquery just to add a complete look over the topic - somebody might find it more convenient using Mobirise's FTP software.

    Cheers! Thanks for the kind words! =)
  • Thanks again for your further explanations. I havnät had the time to take a deep look into it, but do ou mean that there are two ways to publish or what does your second post means, I didnät get it?

    And also I wanted to ask you some private questions regarding website design and management if OK?

    Cheers to Bulgaria (y)
  • Hi @farhadnoruzi ,

    Basically uploading to ftp is one and the same drill - you just can do it with external software - works better for me (first post) or through the built in Mobirise functionality (second post - added it just for completeness - I used it for the firs time today)

    No problem contacting me directly - my email is
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