Using WS-FTP to Upload/Download Your Web Pages
From our labs ONLY (you will not be able to upload from home!):
1)Go to Start > Programs > WS-FTP > WS-FTP95 LE
2)This dialog box appears:
3)Enter the requested information in the following text boxes:
- Profile Name: Enter something that will identify what this login is for. For example: web class
- Host Name/Address: business2.uca.edu
- Host Type: leave as Automatic detect (it may change once it’s “talked” to the server.)
- User ID: Enter the user name you gave me
- Password: Enter the password you gave me
- Leave all other boxes blank. (You may choose to select the Save Pwd checkbox at home, but I recommend that you don’t at school. This will cause the program to remember your password and then anyone can access your web pages from that computer.)
4)Click OK.
5)You will then see a screen that looks like this:
6)The left side of the screen is your computer – Local System.
7)The right side of the screen is the web server – Remote Site.
8)On the Local System side, you will double-click on to access the files on the A: drive.
9)On the Remote Site side, you will need to create a folder for your Tutorial 2 homework (You will create a folder for each tutorial’s homework files.). Follow these steps to create a folder:
- Click on the button on the right. This dialog box appears:
- Type the name of the folder in the box (tutorial2) and click OK.
10)Now double-click on the tutorial 2 folder to open it.
11)Open the Tutorial 2 folder on your disk, then open the review folder. The Local System side should look like this:
12)Select all the files in the Review folder.
13)Then click on the arrow that points from the Local System to the Remote Site.
This will upload the files to the server.
14)Your files should now appear on the Remote Site side.
15)Follow the same procedure for the Case files, with one exception…you don’t select all of the files, only the files used for the assigned case problem.
Now about that index.htm file…
You may have noticed when you first logged in to the FTP program, a file was already on the Remote Site side called index.htm. This file is the html file that you will use to create links to your homework assignments. This particular index.htm file NEVER goes inside of a folder on the Remote Site side. When you get ready to create the links, you must first download this file from the Remote Site to your floppy disk on the Local System side (Select the file then click the download arrow ). Then create your hypertext references and upload to the server.
Web servers are usually setup to acknowledge certain files as “default” files. Most servers use one of four files: index.htm, index.html, default.htm, default.html. The server where you will place your class web files is index.htm. When the opening page of a web site is saved as index.htm, a link on the page, or an URL typed in an address box, may be entered as instead of Both of these have the same result, but using the latter, eliminates extra keying.
On the INFO 3366 web page, your names are links to your opening page. The actual web address to your opening page is A folder has been created for your files on the server that is named with your last name…that becomes the path to your pages. You never actually see the folder, but when you upload your homework, those files are going inside it. When you login, you are actually “opening” the folder on the server side.