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How do I use FTP
to download/upload files?
FTP, File
Transfer Protocol, is the means, or protocol, the Internet uses to transfer files.
You may recognize another protocol, http (hyperlink transfer protocol) from a website
address such as http://www.ccis.net.
While many websites use the FTP protocol to let you download files directly from
a website, you'll need a dedicated FTP program such as wsftp for Windows and Fetch
for Macintosh, to send and receive files to a specific directory somewhere out on
the Internet. A good example would be using FTP software to upload a personal web
page to your 'home' directory.
These instructions are for PERSONAL web pages ONLY.
For Domain Name FTP instructions, please contact your CCIS salesperson.
1.Connect to the Internet
2.FTP(File Transfer Protocol) is an easy program to use to retrieve files or upload
file into your directory or other directories. You can download a trial version from
Chesco download page.
3.These programs require Winzip, which is available on this page also.
4.When you're done downloading Winzip and FTP, extract Winzip first. Once this is
done your will read the help files on "How to Use Winzip", then extract
FTP.
5.Now Click on the FTP program to start.
6.The first screen you see is called session profile. The host is chesco.com, autodetect,
then fill in your username and password. After this you will click 'ok' and this
will connect ftp with our system.
7.The screen you see is divided into two screens, one says local system and one says
remote. The remote system is our server, the local system is your computer.
8.On the local side click on chdir and fill in the path for the files you intend
to transfer to the remote system. You will need to do a couple of steps on the remote
system.
9.The next step is to create a directory called public_html. Click on "MkDir"
and type in public_html. This is where all your files for your web page go.
10.Now you will double click on the directory public_html and it will change the
remote system to this directory. Take note of what the top says; /usr/home/"USERNAME"/public_html.
Now you may transfer all the files for your home page to this area.
11.To transfer the files, click on each file one at a time and they will begin to
transfer. You will do this to all the files and images you are going to transfer.
When you have completed the transfer of all the files, click close. Then exit.
12.Open your browser and go to http://www.chesco.com/~username and you can view your
page. (NOTE FILL IN USERNAME WITH YOUR USER NAME) |
