Publishing Helps

Passwords, folders and filenames are case sensitive. This means that if you provided a name or password in your web site request form that has both UPPER case and lower case letters in it, then you must enter it the same way. The same rule applies to the filenames that make up your web site - they are case sensitive!!

Warning: There are several files in your folders that you may not recognize. These files operate as part of the configuration of your site and should not be modified or deleted. Our golden rule that we are adopting is "If You Didn't Put It There - Then Leave It There". 

Please DO NOT Remove Any Files That You Do Not Recognize. If you are using a Firewall and are having publishing problems, turn the firewall off for a minute and then re-try. If you are able to publish without problems with the firewall off, then you will have to reconfigure the firewall.

The council site is hosted on a different server, although the domain remains ocbsa.org. To access the council web site simply use the URL of http://www.ocbsa.org and you will be immediately sent to the council site. All Email addresses on the council server are in the format of xxxxx@ocbsa.org with individual domains assigned for each unit in the format of http://xxxxx.ocbsa.org

Examples of unit email addresses are; packxxxx@ocbsa.org or troopxxxx@ocbsa.org or crewxxxx@ocbsa.org or teamxxxx@ocbsa.org or postxxxx@ocbsa.org where the "xxxx" is the number of your unit.

These resources are provided at no cost to the units and are supported by the council. Specific Site Address: All web site addresses will be in the following form (http://pack123.ocbsa.org) There is no "www". Valid types are pack, troop, crew (venture crew), post, ship or other special designate assigned when you requested a site.

Publishing Processes: You MUST use FTP (74.220.202.130) to post your pages to the web site. No other processes are supported.

FrontPage publishing is no longer supported.  Webmasters who have a site that was created with FrontPage (FP) should put some effort into finding another publishing package.