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# Publishing your website with WebSite X5

> Publish your Website X5 site effortlessly with our step-by-step guide.

This article describes how to publish your web site developed with WebSite X5 to a hosting.com server.

<Note>
  This article assumes that you have already created a web site using WebSite X5, and you are ready to publish it to a hosting.com web server. For general information about how to use WebSite X5 to create a web site, please visit [http://www.websitex5.com/](http://www.websitex5.com/).
</Note>

## Publishing a WebSite X5 web site to a hosting.com server

After you create a web site in WebSite X5, you can publish it to the hosting.com server associated with your account. For information about how to do this, please watch the following video:

For step-by-step instructions about how publish a WebSite X5 site to a hosting.com server, follow these steps:

1. In WebSite X5, click **Analyse and Export**:\
   ![WebSite X5 - Analyse and Export](https://static.hosting.com/kb/kb-x5-analyze-export.png)

2. Click **Upload the WebSite to Internet**:\
   ![WebSite X5 - Upload](https://static.hosting.com/kb/kb-x5-analyze-export-upload.png)

3. The **Website Export to Internet** page appears:\
   ![WebSite X5 - WebSite Export](https://static.hosting.com/kb/kb-x5-website-export.png)

4. Under **Session Profile**, in the **Server Type** list box, select **SFTP - SSH File Transfer Protocol**.

5. In the **FTP Address** text box, type the name of the hosting.com server where your account is located.

<Note>
  For information about how to determine your account's server name, please see [this article](/docs/determining-your-accounts-server-name).
</Note>

6. In the **Username** text box, type your hosting.com account (cPanel) username.

7. In the **Password** text box, type your hosting.com account (cPanel) password.

<Note>
  If you do not know your cPanel username or password, you can use the hosting.com Hosting Panel to view it. For more information, please see [this article](/docs/viewing-and-changing-login-settings-for-shared-hosting-accounts).
</Note>

8. If you want WebSite X5 to remember your password, select the **Save password** check box.

9. Under **Optional parameters**, in the **Destination folder** text box, type `public_html`.

10. In the **Port** text box, type `22`.

<Warning>
  **Important**

  Make sure you use the correct SSH port number for your account. For example, some hosting accounts use a different port for SSH, such as 7822.
</Warning>

11. Under **Upload Mode**, confirm that **Upload all WebSite files to the Internet** is selected.

12. Click **Next**. WebSite X5 connects to your account.

13. On the **WebSite Export to Internet** page, confirm that the **Path** is set to **public\_html**:\
    ![WebSite X5 - Export Path](https://static.hosting.com/kb/kb-x5-website-export-2.png)

14. Click **Start**. WebSite X5 begins uploading your files to the web server.

<Note>
  If you receive a message about overwriting files, click **Yes**.
</Note>

15. When WebSite X5 finishes publishing your web site to the hosting.com server, visitors on the Internet can view it in their web browsers. To view your live website, click **Your Website is online!**\
    ![WebSite X5 - Site online](https://static.hosting.com/kb/kb-x5-website-online.png)

## More information

For more information about WebSite X5, please visit [http://www.websitex5.com](http://www.websitex5.com/).