# Published Pages > What publishing does, when you need it, and how to manage the pages you use in your Tracker. This page explains what publishing a page does, when you need it, and how to manage the pages you have published. Publishing does not put a page online. Every file in a [Lander Upload](/docs/landing-pages/lander-uploads/index.md) is already online once your page domain is active. Publishing gives a page a name and a place in your page lists, and lets you pick it as a lander in the Tracker. --- ## Do you need to publish? - **To run tracked campaigns, yes.** A campaign shows your page through a lander in the Tracker, and a lander can only use a published page. - **To host a website, no.** Set up your [page domain](/docs/landing-pages/page-domain/index.md), add your files, and they are online. To use a published page in a campaign, go to **Tracker → Landers** and click **Create Lander**, or edit an existing lander. Set **Type** to **Published Pages**, then pick the page under **Select Published Page**. Pages you have not published are not in that list. See [Landers](/docs/tracker/landers/index.md). ![The Create New Lander form in Tracker, Landers, with Type set to Published Pages and the Select Published Page list open, showing Roof Check - Main and Roof Check - Quiz](/images/docs/published-pages-tracker.jpg "Tracker → Landers → Create Lander: picking a published page") Publishing also makes pages easier to manage: you get names, groups, search, **Copy URL**, and a warning before you delete a page a campaign still uses. So it can be worth publishing the pages you work on often, even outside the Tracker. --- ## Publish a page

  1. Open the upload in the File Manager and click Publish next to the HTML file. Pages that are already published show a green Published label instead.

    ![File tree with index.html marked Published and preview.html showing a Publish button](/images/docs/published-pages-1.jpg "index.html is published. preview.html is not yet")

  2. Give the page a Name. Pick one you will still recognise next month, because it is what you see in your lists and in the Tracker. If you like, pick a Group, or type a new one and choose Create. See Groups.

    ![The Publish Page dialog with the name Roof Check - Quiz and a new group, Roofing Landers, being created](/images/docs/published-pages-publish.jpg "Name the page and, if you like, give it a group")

  3. Click Publish Page. The page shows up in your lists, and in the Tracker, straight away.

A file is either published or not. Publishing it again does not make a copy. ### The default page The first page you publish in an upload becomes its **default page**. It is the page **Copy URL** in the Lander Uploads list points to, and you cannot delete its file while it has that role. When you upload a zip, Proferex publishes the home page for you, usually the top-level `index.html`, and makes it the default page. An upload made with Create New has no published pages until you publish one. --- ## Many landers in one upload One upload does not have to be one lander. You can put the landers for several campaigns in a single upload, each in its own folder, and publish each one separately. Every published page is its own choice in the Tracker. ``` roofing-landers/ ├── assets/ images and styles shared by every lander ├── quiz/index.html → publish as "Roof Check - Quiz" ├── call/index.html → publish as "Roof Check - Call" └── es/index.html → publish as "Roof Check - Spanish" ``` This keeps related landers together, lets them share images and styles, and makes a new test as quick as adding a folder and publishing it. Each lander still gets its own address, such as `pages.yourbrand.com/roofing-landers/quiz/`. Splitting landers into separate uploads works too. Use whichever is easier for you to manage. --- ## How page addresses work A page's address has three parts: your page domain, the upload's slug, and the file's path inside the upload. This is the same for every file, published or not. ![The address https://pages.yourbrand.com/summer-offer/de/promo.html split into its page domain pages.yourbrand.com, its slug summer-offer, and its file path de/promo.html](/images/docs/published-pages-url-parts.jpg "The three parts of a page address") - **Every active page domain serves every page.** If you have three domains, each page opens on all three. Choose which one to share. - **Changing the slug or moving the file changes the address.** Old links stop working, so settle both before you send traffic. - **You can leave out `.html`.** `/summer-offer/de/promo` opens the same page as `/summer-offer/de/promo.html`. - **A folder address opens its `index.html`.** `pages.yourbrand.com/summer-offer` opens the upload's top-level `index.html`. `/summer-offer/de` and `/summer-offer/de/` both open `de/index.html`, unless there is also a `de.html` next to the folder. Then `/summer-offer/de` opens `de.html`. Pages only open once your page domain is **Active**. See [Page Domain](/docs/landing-pages/page-domain/index.md). --- ## Find your pages You see published pages in two places: - **Under Landing Pages → Published Pages**, for every page in your account. - **Inside an upload**, on its **Published Pages** tab, for that upload's pages. ![Published Pages selected under Landing Pages in the sidebar, with the filters for upload, group, and use](/images/docs/published-pages-nav.jpg "Landing Pages → Published Pages") Below the filters, it lists every published page in your account: ![Landing Pages, Published Pages, with filters for upload, group, and use, and five pages from three uploads](/images/docs/published-pages-list.jpg "Every published page in your account") Inside an upload, the **Published Pages** tab shows the same list for that upload's pages: ![The Published Pages tab inside the Roofing Lander upload, listing Roof Check - Main and Roof Check - Quiz](/images/docs/published-pages-tab.jpg "The same list for one upload") | Column | What it shows | |---|---| | Page Name | The name you gave the page. | | Lander Uploads | The upload the page belongs to. | | Slug | The upload's slug. | | Path | The page's path, such as `/summer-offer/de/promo.html`. | | Used In | How many landers in the Tracker use this page. | | Group | Its group, if it has one. | | Created | When you published it. | The account-wide list also lets you search and filter by upload, by group, or by use. Filtering to pages no lander uses is a quick way to find pages to clean up. ### Row actions Open the **⋯** menu at the end of a row. ![The row menu for a published page with Edit in Files, Preview, Copy URL, Rename, and Delete](/images/docs/published-pages-row-menu.jpg "What you can do with a published page") - **Edit in Files** opens the page's file in the editor, ready to fix. - **Preview** opens the live page in a new tab. - **Copy URL** copies the page's address for your ads, emails, or anywhere else. - **Rename** changes the page's name and group. The address stays the same. - **Delete** unpublishes the page. It leaves your lists and the Tracker, but the file stays in the upload and stays online. To take a page offline, delete its file in the file manager. --- ## Groups Groups are labels for keeping pages together, by campaign, language, client, or whatever suits you. Groups do not change how or where pages open. Add a page to a group when you publish it, or later with **Rename**. Type a group name, and if it does not exist yet, choose **Create** to make it. ![The Group field in the Publish Page dialog with Roofing Landers typed and the option Create Roofing Landers](/images/docs/published-pages-publish.jpg "Type a new group name and choose Create") To make a group ahead of time, click **⊕** next to **Filter by Group** on **Landing Pages → Published Pages**. ![The filters on Published Pages, with Filter by Group and its plus button outlined](/images/docs/published-pages-groups.jpg "Filter by one or more groups") To see only some groups, pick them under **Filter by Group** and click **Apply Filters**. You can pick more than one. --- ## Deleting a page a campaign uses **Used In** shows how many landers in the Tracker use a page. Proferex will not let you delete a page while any lander still uses it, and it tells you how many do. That way you cannot pull a page out from under a running campaign. Point those landers at another page, or delete them, and then delete the page. A page with **0 Landers** can be deleted without affecting anything else. --- ## Next step Use a published page in a campaign. See [Landers](/docs/tracker/landers/index.md).