To publish your website with Netscape Composer you need to use a special publish URL:

Notice that the beginning of this publish URL is "ftp:", not the usual Web address "http:".  This is important; you cannot publish to our server using "http:".

Normally the only things with "@" in them are email addresses, but in this case the "@" is not in an email address.  The Web has borrowed this construct for FTP upload URLs, to indicate an upload that should be done as the user username to the server www.netheaven.com.  The "@" does not mean the upload is done with email.  It only means the email notation has been borrowed.

Even though the upload username is in the URL, Netscape Composer will ask you for it separately.  Composer will also ask for your password.  It will remember your password, but most versions require you to fill in your username every time you publish a page.

For the majority of our users, username and userdir are the same.  Example: if your username is thinice, your userdir would normally be thinice also, and the publish URL for your home page would be

For some users, the username and directory (userdir) are different because the userdir, which appears in some web URLs, has been changed to reflect the name of a business.  If you have read some of our other pages on domains and websites, you have encountered our usual example of Fred Smith with the beerkeg business.  Our Fred's username is fred, but his userdir gets changed to beerkeg.  Fred's publish URL for Netscape Composer would be

Special cases:  If you have your own domain and virtual server, replace www.netheaven.com with your virtual server.  If you do not have your own domain and virtual server but your website is on our "external" server, replace www.netheaven.com with wwwx.netheaven.com.