Uploading Tips – A quick review, check it over – but if you still need help, you can contact Academic Computing at their website: it.usf.edu/help. They have a chat line available.

Apple Users:
  • You can use Fugu to upload files to the USF server from an Apple computer. Although students often use this & haven't reported any problems, I take no responsibility for using this free downloadable software :) You can use SSH at the computer lab and upload from there if you'd rather not download any software on your computer.
    Links to Fugu:
    and/or

Windows / Vista Users:
Go to it.usf.edu
Click on:
Purchasing & Software
Click on:
Security Downloads
And scroll down to:
SSH Clients
1)Click on the link to download the SSH software
You’ll be asked for your NetID & Bb password.
Save/Download the software & install it. /
2)Once you’ve downloaded SSH from the link in the assignment – you’ll have the following icons / shortcuts. /
3) Double-click the SSH Secure File Transfer icon (the one with the folder) to start SSH & you should get the following window (yours will look a little different) Note: one person had to turn off his anti-virus software to get everything to work correctly – I don’t have to do that & he’s the only one I’ve heard of who has, but it’s something to keep in mind if these instructions don’t work for you.
4)Click on QUICK CONNECT /
5)Host Name should be myweb.usf.edu
User Name is your netid
Don’t change the Port Number or Authentication Method /
6)Enter your Blackboard password here /
7)Then you’ll be signed on to the USF server (on the right) and your own computer (on the left). It will look something like this:
On the left side, you’ll want to browse to the folder that holds all of your web pages & images
On the right side, double-click public_html to open that folder
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8)Then drag all of your files from your computer/folder to public_html on the right (do NOT drag the whole folder from your computer – open your folder & drag the individual files – including all image/picture files). /
Things to check if you have problems:
  1. Be sure your first webpage is called index.html and it’s in public_html (not in another folder within public_html)
  2. Check that you don’t have 2 index files, an index.html and an index.htm . If you do, delete the file that isn’t your web page.
  3. Check the date of the index.html file in public_html – if it’s not current, delete it & upload your file again.
  4. Be sure that all of your other files are in public_html (not in another folder within public_html)
  5. Be sure that you upload all of your image files to public_html
  6. Be sure that your links in your web pages match the images names exactly for example
    <img src=“dogpicture.jpg”>
    will not work if the image file name is DogPicture.jpg
  7. Be sure that your links to pictures don’t link to files on YOUR computer, for example:
    <img src=“C:\documents and settings\My Documents\dogpicture.jpg” >
    will not work once you upload it to the USF server – because we can’t see your computer from the Internet  The code should be:
    <img src = “dogpicture.jpg”>