Using FTP & Uploading files

1. Setting up your FTP program
2. Uploading/Downloading Files
3. Creating Folders & Changing Permissions
4. How to use MicroSoft FrontPage to manage your Website
5. Setting up Filezilla FTP program (example screenshots!)

 

 

1. Setting up your FTP program

 

In order to FTP into your website you will need the information which was included in your welcome letter.

Look for a place to enter your settings in your FTP program, and use the following:


- Host Name/Address: YOUR_DOMAIN.COM (or the host provided in the welcome email you received on registration)
- Host Type: Automatic Detect
- User ID: your User ID
- Password: Enter your Password
- Check the Save Password box if you wish.

Then you should be able to connect. Once you do so, on the "remote" window (which is our server), you will be logged in to an area called "your root". You will see a folder called: "html". This is the folder you use to place your webpages. DO NOT put your files in any other folder (that is, if you want them to be visible on the net). See #2 for uploading and #3 for making folders.

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• Uploading/Downloading Files

Your program probably has a setting called "Binary" and "ASCII". Please note that it is very important to transfer images in Binary mode. Everything else, HTML documents, php, cgi scripts etc. should be transferred using ASCII mode. If you fail to set this correctly your files may not appear as they should. If your FTP program as an "AUTO" setting, use that.

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• Creating Folders & Changing Permissions

To create a new directory on your website, click for a "New Folder" or "MkDir" button You will be prompted to enter a name for the new directory. Once you do this, the new directory will be created for you.

To change folder permissions, highlight the folder you want to change in the remote window and look for "CHMOD" (sometimes, right-clicking on the folder gives a list of options) or under FTP commands you can use "SITE" command which you will enter the proper values/format which is: chmod AMOUNT NAME_OF_FILE.

Here is an example:
chmod 755 index.php

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• How to use MS FrontPage to manage your Website

MS Frontpage has multiple ways of keeping your site updated, and we suggest using the FTP method since it is more secure than the HTTP method. You will need to modify some of your settings. Here's how:

 

• On the File menu, click Publish Web.
• Click Options to expand the list of options.
• Specify whether you want to publish only pages that have changed, or all pages.
• To publish subwebs, select the Include subwebs check box.
• In the Specify the location to publish your web to box, type the location of the FTP Web server: ftp://performancehosting.net/html
  or click the arrow to select a location to which you have published before. (Clicking Browse to find the folder on the server where your web is stored is not recommended for FTP publishing because you will need to navigate through a folder structure which might be unclear.)
• Click Publish. Then enter your account user name and password when prompted.

  FrontPage publishes your web. By browsing to your web, you can verify that your web was successfully published.

  Because you are publishing to a Web server that does not run the FrontPage Server Extensions, you will be notified if your web contains any features that require the server extensions.

  If you cancel publishing in the middle of the operation, files that have already been published remain on the destination Web server.

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• Setting up Filezilla FTP program (example screenshots!)

If you haven't done so already, download and install FileZilla CLIENT (not server) (it's free). Below is detailed screen shots of how to use it with our system.

- Open up the software, and then enter your host information (included in your welcome email) in the boxes at the top (as seen in image 1)



- In the second screen shot, you can see your local computer folder in the top left side. you can browse to where your files are located on your computer so they are displayed in the screen/window just below (bottom left).

- Then, once your files are listed on the left bottom screen, you can upload them to the server (window on the right side). Make sure you are in the correct folder on the *remote/server* side (most will be "html" for websites).

- Then, you can upload your files by right-clicking on the file you want to upload (or right clicking on the folder to upload an entire folder with it's contents)



A few important things to remember:

-your default webpage when someone visits your site should have the name "index.html" (or "index.php" for php code; or "index.cfm" for coldfusion)