FTP

                         

FTP is provided as as standard on CWCS accounts at no                                extra charge.

                         

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, and this is the                                means of transferring your files to your web site for all to see. Unless you                                carry out your own design and maintenance, you needn't concern yourself with                                FTP.

                         

Customers uploading files to their web site themselves will need                                FTP software to do this. One popular programme to do this is WS_FTP.

                         

Configuration

                         

In order to upload, you will need your login and password that                                were issued to you when you opened your account.

                         

The examples illustrated here show how to configure WS_FTP, but                                other programmes will require similar information.

                         

                         

The Host Name/Address should be set to                                ftp.yourdomain.co uk, or ftp.yoursubdomain.domain.co.uk if                                you have a subdomain account.

                         

Enter your login name under User ID, and password under                                Password. You can check the Save password box to save having to                                enter this every time you use the software.

                         

                         

You do not need to enter anything under Remote Site Folder, as                                this will log you directly into the main directory of your account.

                         

This is normally sufficient to connect you to your site, but there                                are many other settings within WS_FTP that can be used where needed.

                         

Startup page

                         

In order that your opening page on your web site opens                                automatically with just your domain name typed into the browser, it must be                                named as follows:

                         

index.htm,                                                  index.html,                                                  index.shtml, or

                         

Case sensitive file names

                         

Your web site files are located on Unix/Linux-based servers. On                                these, file names are case-sensitive and index.htm would be a different file to                                INDEX.HTM or Index.htm.

                         

To avoid problems in this respect, you may find it easiest to only                                use lower-case file names. There is an option in WS_FTP to ensure that all                                files are uploaded in that way.

                         

You cannot use the special characters in file names, such as ! @ ~                                # £ $ % * : etc.

                         

CGI directory

                         

You will find a cgi-bin directory on your site, to which you can                                load Perl/CGI scripts. You can also load Perl/CGI scripts to any other                                directory if needed, but if you do so you will need to ensure the script has                                the suffix "cgi" and not "pl".

                         

Useful links

                                                         

• Genius 2 - a free                                  FTP programme

                                

• Leech                                  FTP - another freeby

                                

• Ipswitch - the                                  manufacturers of WS_FTP

                                

• WS_FTP LE - a free                                  version of the above, available only for non-commercial use.