FTP Directions

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FTP Directions

• WS_FTP X-FTP

Christopher Biehl
Throughout the presentation, please click the
left mouse button to proceed.
GA - CIS DEPARTMENT 1999
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This slide show was created to help Temple
University students learn how to use the two
main FTP programs available on campus. It is to
be used as a supplement to your lab, not as a
replacement. While going through the slides, feel
free to take notes. The slide show will wait
for you to click the mouse before moving on.
On Temples campus, you will be using
either WS_FTP or X-FTP. The only difference
between the two programs is X-FTP breaks up the
left side and the right side into 4 windows while
WS_FTP uses only 2 windows to show the files. It
is a minor difference and should not be a concern
for this tutorial. The screens that you will see
throughout this presentation are screen captures
taken from the WS_FTP program. At the end of the
tutorial, there is a link to download the program.
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WS_FTP
You are using FTP to transfer files from your
floppy disk into your unix account. Once a file
is on your unix account, you can view it from a
web browser such as Netscape.
Open the program to begin. To log onto FTP, you
must be sure that the 5 main boxes are filled in
correctly.
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LOGGING ONTO FTP

• the profile and host name will be the same. Just
  type in the Profile name and the host name will
  automically be entered.
• this example will use an unix account - if you
  have an astro account it would be
  astro.temple.edu - the 2 other common Temple
  accounts are thunder and nimbus

unix.temple.edu
unix.temple.edu

• always leave host type as auto detect

jstudent001

• the user id and password are the same as when
  you check your e-mail on unix

• Hit enter or OK to log onto FTP

(click to continue)
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COMPUTER SIDE
UNIX SIDE
You should now be logged into FTP. If you do not
see information on both sides, check the message
at the bottom of the screen. Most likely you
typed your user id or password incorrectly.
Now that you are logged on, notice the left side
represents the computer files and the right side
represents the files on your unix account. For
this tutorial, we will pretend that you wish to
take a file named resume.htm from your floppy
disk A drive and place it into your unix
account so that you can show it off on the
Internet.
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The resume file is on your disk, so you must
double click the A drive icon on the left side to
view the file.
UNIX SIDE
Once you double click the A drive, you should see
the files from your disk on the left hand side of
FTP. Before you transfer the file to the unix
side, you must first open the public_html folder
on the right side with a double click. Any file
that you want to show on the Internet must be
located in this folder.
The next slide will show a typical screen once
the A drive has been opened on the left side and
the public_html file has been opened on the right
side.
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The files shown below are for teaching purposes
only! Your files and the files on the screen
will be different so do not panic! You must,
however, see the A drive and the public_html
folder showing on your window.
On the right side you may have a lot of files,
but since you are just starting out, you will
most likely have only one or two. A .gif file
is a picture file, as is a .jpg file. The one
file you never want to delete or rename on the
unix side is the index.html file. It is your
main page, so just leave it be until you fully
understand HTML.
Notice the file on the A drive is named
resume.htm Once you place the file onto the unix
side, you can name it whatever you want. I will
show an example of this once the file has been
transferred.
It is now time to transfer the resume.htm file
into the public_html folder of your unix account.
In order to do that, you should single click on
the resume.htm file and then click once on the
arrow.
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Notice that once the file transfers, it appears
on BOTH sides of the screen. You now have a copy
on your A drive as well as on your unix
account. The last thing you might have to do is
rename the file that is on the unix side. If
your lab instructor told you to name your file
resume.html or resume but yours is resume.htm,
that makes a HUGE difference. You must rename
the file.
To rename the file, you must first select the
file by single clicking on it (the one on the
unix side) Once you have selected the file, you
should click upon the Rename box. When the
rename dialog box appears, type in resume.html
and the name will change on the unix side
only. At that point, your file will be ready for
viewing on any web browser! Great job and good
luck with your web page!
Lets rename this file as resume.html
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THE END !
If you are still having trouble using FTP after
going to class and using this aid, please visit
your lab instructor during his/her office hours.
If you need to download FTP for use at home, go
to www.download.com and conduct a search for
WS_FTP. That web page will allow you to download
the latest version.