| FTP stands for "File Transfer Protocol," and this is how you get your website from your computer, to our servers, then onto the Internet. If you don't FTP your site to us, it will not be available on the Web. Your web site design software may have FTP built-in as a "publish" command or you may want to use a separate program (an FTP client)just for FTPing. Last updated: Feb 09, 2001. |
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 CHMOD
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| CHMOD is a Unix command that lets you tell the system how much (or little) access it should permit to a file.
All of your files and directories have a number of attributes that are set when
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scp / sftp
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| Scp and sftp are both part of OpenSSH, the secure shell server we run. Now that all of our users can have shell access, everyone can take advantage of these secure methods of transferring files. ... (more) |
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How do I download files from my web directory?
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| From time to time, you may want to download your web files to your computer --- for editing, safekeeping, whatever. But how do you do it? It's easy!
The following directions are illustrated using t... (more) |
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How do I upload to a sub-domain?
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| How do you upload web pages to a sub-domain? Do you make the FTP connection the same way as you do with a regular domain?
It's exactly the same as uploading to a regular domain. The only differ... (more) |
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Can I upload files without an FTP client?
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| Many web browsers have built in support for FTP. While this support is fairly basic (ie. you can upload or overwrite files, but cannot delete existing ones), it is usually adequate for a quick edit or... (more) |
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I don't know what the FTP address is!
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| I'm hosting a site and I have no clue what to type in as the FTP address.
Just use yourdomain.com.
If you're using a subdomain, like yourdomain.dreamhosters.com, use that.
If your domain ha... (more) |
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How do I upload files (publish) to my site?
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| Publish your files by uploading them to our server, where they will be online at your domain until you delete them.
To upload your files, you must transfer them via an FTP (File Transfer Proto... (more) |
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Deleting files/directories with special meta-characters.
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| I have created a directory with a weird character in it (in this case, a tilde '~' character), and my FTP client won't let me delete it. I'd really like to get rid of it.
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How do you let people download files from your site?
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| All you have to do is link to them in your page's html code, just like you would any other document. So if you have myfile.zip, and you want people to be able to download it with a click, just put thi... (more) |
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 Using FTP clients
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Troubleshooting
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Password
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File Types
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