| This tutorial will show you how to configure the FTP client WS_FTP LE to upload
and download files to your website.
To download a copy of WS_FTP LE, visit ftpplanet.com
1) Open WS_FTP LE. A dialog box will appear as shown below. Click on New to add your website
as a new host.
2) Enter the following information as requested, as shown below
Profile Name: The name of your website. eg. yourdomain.com
Host Name/Address: Your ftp address. eg. ftp.yourdomain.com
Host Type: Leave as Automatic Detect
User ID: The admin username, eg. matthewb
Password: Password for user
Check Save Pwd and then click on the Advanced tab at the top of the window.
3) Depending on your PC's connection to the internet, you may have to enable "Passive transfers".
If you find your FTP connection stalling or timing out, try toggling this setting either on or off.
Click the Apply button and then click the OK button to start your FTP session.
3) You will now be logged into your website. Initially you are placed in your users
home directory /users/username.
To change to where your websites html, cgi and php files are kept you can either select rootweb and
click ChgDir, or double click the rootweb folder.
4) You will notice the WS FTP screen is split into 2 sides,
on the left is your local pc's filesystem, and on the right is your remote webservers filesystem.
In the Remote Site window on the right hand side, you will now see your index.html page.
5) To start uploading files to your account, you can either select your local file from the left hand window and click
the right pointing arrow to upload them to the folder shown on the remote site, or you can simply drag your selected file(s) from
the left side local window to the right side remote window.
As soon as a file is uploaded to the web server, it is available for all to see.
To download a file, select the
file from the right hand side window and click the left pointing arrow to download them to the local folder shown
in the left hand local filesystem window.
6) When transferring a file between your computer and your website, a window will pop up showing you the status
of your file transfer.
7) Once you have uploaded your file(s) they will appear in the right side Remote site window.
Once you have your main default index page ready for upload, you can either replace index.html with your own index.html, or you can upload an index.php page and delete the index.html page.
Acceptable File Names
Please note the server operating system is case sensitive. This means the file name 'test.html' is NOT the same as 'TEST.html'.
If your html code references test.html, but the actual file name is in uppercase, this will result in a File Not Found error.
This also applies to directory names.
We suggest naming all your files in lowercase. Don't use spaces and punctuation characters.
The underscore character ('_') is acceptable. Try to keep your filenames short but with meaning.
Timeouts and slow connections
If you are experiencing your FTP connection timing out when logging in, or
long delays when performing operations, you may have to change your "Passive Transfers" setting. This is located under the Advanced
tab. Try toggling this setting on/off and reconnecting.
If you have any questions regarding this tutorial, please check our FAQ or feel free to contact us.
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