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 USING FTP TO UPLOAD/MAINTAIN A PERSONAL WEB PAGE :


Before uploading your personal Web page, you must first have space on our servers. If you do not already have space, please get in touch with the Helpdesk.

Your personal Web space is in your "public_html" directory.
Your main page must be called either "default.html" or "index.html" ("default.html" takes precedence over "index.html").

The address of your personal home page is:

http://people.becon.org/~yourusername

Create the files on your computer to make sure everything looks and works properly. Then upload the files to the server.

File transfers can be done using a graphical FTP client (for example, the FireFTP extension in the Firefox browser), or the free FTP software Filezilla, or the text-based command-line client that is part of Windows.

In all cases, the hostname is ftp.becon.org


To use the command-line client [don't type the quotes]:

- Connect to the Internet (ppp)
a) Click Start | Run ; type cmd and click OK;
at the command line in the DOS window, type ftp ftp.becon.org, press Enter
Note: when in a DOS window, each time you type a command it is necessary to press Enter in order to transmit the command.

- To see a listing of files, type "ls"
- To change to your home directory, type "cd public_html"

Transferring files:
If you are uploading anything other than plain text files, transfer in binary: type "bin" at the prompt
  • To upload files to the server:
    • at the prompt, type "put {path/filename}" [the path (location) and name of the file on your computer]
    • to upload multiple files, e.g. if you have several .gif files, use "mput" with a wildcard, e.g. "mput *.gif"
  • To download files to your computer:
    • at the prompt, type "get {filename}" (or "mget" with wildcards)
  • To delete files from the server, type "del" {filename}

** Filenames are case-sensitive **

Directories (folders) in your public_html space
(for example, if you want to place your images in a separate folder):
- to create a directory, type "mkdir {directoryname}"
- to remove a directory, first delete the files it contains, then type "rmdir {directoryname}"

To quit: type "quit"

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