Using WS_FTP

Launch the software. Access the File menu and select My Sites or New sites

You will be entering settings which allow you to connect to the gracie server while you are a student in this class.

First identify a "site profile" name, I suggest html class. Next enter the name of the server gracie.santarosa.edu.

Now select the Next button and you will be asked to enter a username and password. This is unique to each account. The pattern is - lowercase first initial, last name for a total of no more than 8 letters. Linda Hemenway would have a username of: lhemenwa

The password was set by you earlier in the class. Refer back to your "password cheat sheet" for the correct values. The password appears as *** when you type it in. Make sure you click on the Save Password box so you will not need to enter your password again.

If you have forgotten your password, contact your instructor and they will reset it for you.

Now select the Finish button and this screen will appear.

Note that there is now a site called "html class" displayed in the window at the left. Once you have finished creating the settings for this FTP connection you can simply click on this alias and the connection will occur.

Step 2 - identifying the Remote Site Folder
Select the Advanced Properties button and this screen displays. Select the Startup tab and then the OK button.

Now you need to enter the Remote Site Folder setting. For the gracie server this value is /home/WWW/your username, then select the OK button.

A dialog box will display which asks you if you want to change the settings, select Yes.

Now the screen we started with again displays. This time select Connect.

Step 3 - Moving Files

Now you will see a screen which shows the files from your disc or hard drive, on the left, and the files on your Web server on the right.

Use the arrow buttons in the center of the screen to move files from your disc to the Internet or visa versa. As the files move across a window will appear which marks the progress of the upload.

You can also rename files or delete them by accessing the buttons at the far right

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Step 4 - Viewing Your Site

After you have loaded your index.html page onto the Internet, open Netscape or IE and type in your URL.

http://gracie.santarosa.edu/~username/

How does the page look, are the graphics loading, do the links still work? It's time to debug your site!!

Windows is very forgiving when it comes to file names. UNIX (the operating system of "gracie and most ISPs) is not. If you have created a link to a file
<A href="Photos.html"> and the file is saved as
photos.html the link will work on your local computer. However when you load the files onto the Internet, the link will break. Code and filenames for web pages and graphics must match EXACTLY. To rename the file so it corresponds to your code just click on the Rename button at the right hand side of the screen and enter a new name.

One final note - If you do not correctly enter the location of the "Remote Site Folder" the server will connect to your email directory. Loading Web pages here does not work. The file will never be visible from the Web. If you connect to gracie and the screen on the right looks like the one below - you are in the wrong place. You need to disconnect and try again.

Note that the value in the Remote Site window at the top right is /home/students/username, which is incorrect. The correct value is /home/WWW/username. Another indicator that you are in the wrong place is the file names which are listed at the right, "elm" "Mail" and "qmail" are all files which are used by your email, not by your Web directory. Scroll down to the bottom of the window and you will see an alias for your Web directory. Look for the words public_html clicking on this file will take you out of your mailbox and into the Web area of the server.