WS_FTP

(available from http://ipswitch.com)

How do you configure WS_FTP to upload to a web site?



	Shown is WS_FTP LE; WS_FTP Pro is similar but has more features

Establish a dial-up connection, or if you are on a network make sure that you are on the internet. Activate WS_FTP by clicking the appropriate shortcut on your desktop or Start menu. Click the Connect button in the lower left-hand corner of the initial menu. A second menu entitled "Session Profile" will appear on top of the first menu.

Entire whatever Profile Name you want to distinguish the web site which you are uploading (or downloading). Entire the Host Name, which is merely your domain name and extension. For Open Veld hosted domains, the host name should not be preceded by an "ftp." Enter your User ID and Password. If you are using a shared computer, you should leave the box "Save Password" unchecked. Enter your Password and click "Ok." You should see a series of machine messages appear in the lower left, and if a connection is established, you will see a directory tree in the right pane, underneath "Remote System."

You can now drill up or down in the directory tree of both your Local System and the Remote System. If you see files that you wish to transfer from one to the other, you will see obvious arrows which you can click to enable the transfer. Be careful to use ASCII and not Binary as your mode of transfer for any scripts and for HTML pages. Meanwhile, graphics must be transferred in Binary. Also be careful in downloading and uploading that you do not transfer in the wrong direction than you intended, or otherwise overwrite valuable files. The WS_FTP LE version provides no warning if you are about to overwrite another file, and the WS_FTP Pro 6.0 version provides warning only for downloads.

Where do I obtain the remote server information to configure the FTP session profile?
The Profile Name is whatever you want to call it. The other information you should have received from us as soon as your account was set up with Open Veld. Look for an e-mail "New Web Account Established" (see Startup for explanation of initial e-mail messages). We included your domain name, e.g., widget-products-inc.com; User ID, e.g., widgec; and Password, e.g., gfcave+tac. Where WS_FTP asks you for Host Name you put your domain name. Initially for the Host Name, however, you can instead use your IP address, e.g., 207.158.192.148, which we also gave you. That's only for the first 2-5 days, when your web account is being established, and your domain name is not yet propagated throughout the world's domain name servers. Remember to cautiously change the password we first gave you by going through your control panel and choosing a strong password that you will remember. Case matters! So be sure to permanently record your new password, either in your head or another secure location. FrontPage users should remember that the FrontPage password can also be changed through FrontPage, and it is not necessarily the same as the account password that you use for FTP.

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