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| Uploading with WS_FTP |
| 1. Open your WS_FTP program 2. On the Session Properties screen, click on the General tab. Here you have several fields that you need to fill out. Profile Name: Enter the name you want to know this profile by. Your domain name is commonly used here Host Name/Address: This is your_domain.com, where your_domain.com is your actual domain name. You can also use here the numeric IP address of the server where your site is hosted. The Numeric address can be found in your hosting account Welcome email Host Type: Make sure Automatic detect is selected. UserID: This is the userID of your hosting account. It should be listed in your hosting account Welcome email. Password: This is the password that you designated in your Welcome email. 3. Then proceed to the Startup tab For Initial Remote Site folder use: /www/www If you need to publish to a subdomain on your site, please use '/www/subdomain_name', where subdomain_name must be replaced with the name of your subdomain. For example if you have sub.your_domain.com in the Default Remote Directory you should type in /www/sub 4. Once ready, please choose the Advanced tab: Please make sure that Passive transfers is checked and that the Remote port is set to 21 5. . Click the Apply button and then the OK button 6. Next, you must configure the ASCII extensions so that your text based files will transfer correctly. Get to this window by clicking Options at the bottom of the main window and selecting the Extensions tab. Here you enter .htm, .html, .pl, .txt, .cgi or any other file extensions that need to be transferred as text. 7. Next, click on the Session (cont'd) tab and select Auto Detect under the Startup Transfer Mode. 8. To upload or download a file, highlight the file, and click the Arrow buttons in between the window that points in the direction you want it to move. In other words, to upload, click a file in the left box, and click the arrow pointing to the right, and it will appear on the right. |
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