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File Transfer Protocol(FTP) - Accessing Your Personal Web Site

File Transfer Protocol

Accessing Your Personal Web Site

File Transfer Protocol

So, you've created a web page and you want it show it to the world. To get your web page from your computer to your server you will need an FTP Client. An FTP Client is used to move files across the internet from one location to another, we recommend WS_FTP LE for Windows Users and Fetch for Macintosh users. This short tutorial covers uploading your web page with WS_FTP and assumes that you have downloaded and installed it.

Once WS_FTP LE has been started you will probably be looking at a window similar to the one shown above. This window holds all the information necessary to connect to the server. The "Profile Name" at the top is simply the name of the session, it can be anything. Host Name/Address is www.geeksnet.com. The "User ID" is your user id and your "Password" is (surprise!) your password. Is this all there is to it? Yes, when you press the "OK" button you will be connected to the server and will probably be looking at a screen somewhat similar to the one below.

This window is split into two columns: one on the left, and one on the right. The left column represents the files on your computer and the right column represents our server. Using the ".." file in the left column navigate yourself to the folder which you stored all of your web files.

In the left column select all the files you wish to upload, you may hold down the key to select them individually or the key to select a group of them. Once selected press the "->" button to send them to the server. Once they are on the server, they should be viewable by the world.

Accessing Your Personal Web Site

Please note: Web space provided by geeksnet is for personal use. Advertisement of or solicitation for business constitutes a business web site and will be billed accordingly. If you would like a business web site, please refer to:
http://www.geeksnet.com/services/design.html
or
http://www.geeksnet.com/services/hosting.html,
or contact our Sales Department.

The URL address of your home page is...

http://www.geeksnet.com/username

Where username is your username.

You may add additional pages to your home page by creating additional HTML files and providing links to them, or structure your home page into sections by creating subdirectories in your www directory.

Each HTML file must have the .html or .htm extension. All other files must have the appropriate extension describing what type of file they are (.gif for GIF format graphics files, .jpg or .jpeg for JPEG format graphics files, .au for Sun audio files, etc.).

The full URL address of any given file is...

http://www.geeksnet.com/username/path/file.ext

Where username is your username, path is the path of subdirectories (if any, relative to your www directory), and file.ext is the full filename (which defaults to index.html if unspecified).