Upload and Download Pages Using FTP
If you are not using an HTML editor that has a built-in file transfer capability, then you can use the file transfer program that is included in the qvtnet package. This is one of the ftp programs available in the connected computers at the college. Some of the college's computers have the old version of this program, which is documented on another webpage.
To transfer files using ftp, proceed as follows:
Click on the ftp program icon and open a connection to the Osprey by clicking on File and then Open, as indicated in the figure below.
Fill in the text boxes as indicated below with the college server domain name, your username, and your password. Then click on OK.
Set the public_html subdirectory as the default directory on the server side by double-clicking on it, and set the default directory in your local directory tree to the directory you are moving files from or to.
In Figure 2 the local default directory is set to c:\temp; there are no files in that directory. The remote default directory is /u2/faculty/russom/public_html. This is the public_html subdirectory belonging to a faculty member whose username is russom. Student Wiley Phillips will see /u2/student/philw89/public_html in this box.
If you move more than one file at a time, they must all be of the same type -- ASCII or binary. Thus, if you are moving HTML and GIF or JPG files, you must move all the HTML files together, and then all the GIF and JPG files together. With each move you must click in the appropriate box at the bottom of Figure 2 indicating that the files are ASCII or binary.
Figure 2. The file transfer window from WS_FTP. Move files from the local to the remote system, or vice-versa, by highlighting and clicking on the appropriate arrow.
Highlight the files you wish to download on the right, and move them to the local hard drive by clicking on the arrow pointing from right to left. You can highlight several files by holding down the Cntrl key and clicking on the file names one at a time.
Upload files by reversing the process: highlight files on the left, click on the arrow pointing to the right.
In the world of web publishing, all pages (HTML files) are ASCII, all graphics (GIFs and JPGs), sound files, and movies are binary. FTP programs must be told which kind of file is being transferred, or the files will be damaged during transfer. If, in your web page, you find that images or text are only partially displayed, chances are you transferred them as the wrong file type.
If you have questions or comments about these instructions, please contact M. Russo.