When you upload webpage files from your computer to a web server you should use a?

Once you have created HTML, graphic, and other files for your web pages, you transfer them from your computer to a web server. The people.bu.edu server hosts personal and group pages, and the central server (www.bu.edu) hosts pages for academic and administrative departments.

Windows and Mac have different file transfer protocol (FTP) programs for uploading files from a computer to a server.
Windows users should use Dreamweaver or FileZilla — a free FTP client. Mac users should use Dreamweaver or Cyberduck, which is free.

Uploading Files using Dreamweaver

1. Define a local site using the value below for the corresponding question:

   Host name / SFTP address of server:

   webdev.bu.edu

   Folder on the server:

   For sites on www.bu.edu, use /web/yoursite

   For sites on other domains, use /web/example.bu.edu/yoursite

   FTP Login:

   Enter your BU login name (the portion of your BU email address that appears before the @ sign.)

   FTP Password:

   Enter your Kerberos password.

   Connection Type:

   Use Secure FTP (SFTP) only.

   Updating Login/Password:
   If you’ve changed your BU (Kerberos) password for any reason, you’ll need to update Dreamweaver with the new password:

   1. In Dreamweaver, go to Site> Manage Site. Double click on your website name.
   2. Here you will see your site definition that you set up when you started your site.
   3. Click next 3 times.
   4. Make sure your FTP login is set to your BU username.
   5. Next you will see “What is my FTP password?”  Type in your new password and click “Test Connection.”  You should get the following message: “Adobe Dreamweaver connected to your Web server successfully.” If not, please re-type your password and try again.
   6. Once connected click next, next, done.  Now you should be able to publish changes to your website.

Uploading Files with an SFTP Client

1. Open your SFTP client. We recommend FileZilla for Windows and Cyberduck for Mac OS X.
2. In the Host or Hostname field, fill in webdev.bu.edu
3. In the Username field, type your BU login name (the portion of your email address that appears before the @ sign.)
4. On the Open Connection screen in Cyberduck, use the option outlined below. For FileZilla users, enter 22 in the Port field to switch to SFTP. Use Secure FTP (SFTP) only.
5. In the Password field, type your Kerberos password.
   
6. In the Directory or Remote site field, type your Web directory path. For sites on www.bu.edu use /web/sitename. For sites on other domains, use /web/example.bu.edu/sitename
7. Click OK or Quickconnect.
8. All SFTP clients allow you to click and drag files to and from a location on your computer to the remote server. Simply select the file you’d like to move and drag it to a new location.
9. Once the files have been uploaded, check your files on the Web.

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You can create entire websites on your computer that will work in any browser...but only on your computer.

If you want other people to see your website, you must copy your files to a web server. A web server is really just another computer that is specially set up to allow other people around the world to access it. For this class, we will use the Simmons web server. As students, all of you already have accounts set up on the Simmons web server.

In order to put your web pages online, we'll use the File Transfer Protocol, more commonly known as FTP. There are many different applications that use FTP to transfer files. For this class, you will use Transmit.

Uploading and Downloading

What do we really mean when we say upload a file or download a file?

Web servers are servers that serve web pages to many clients. Your computer (and every computer in this room) is a client. When we upload a file, we are copying the file from your computer (the client) to the web server. When we download a file, we are copying a file from a web server to your computer.

You've probably all uploaded and downloaded files before, even if you didn't realize you were doing so. Every time you download a PDF file, you're downloading.

When you post a photo on Instagram or a video on YouTube, you're actually uploading that media to the Instagram or YouTube web servers.

Using Transmit

In order to upload our files to the Simmons web server, we must first make an FTP connection. Open the Transmit application. It should be in your Dock and also in the Applications folder. It's the icon with the adorable little truck.

The first time you open Transmit 4, you will be presented with some options. We won't be using the these additional features in class, so you should uncheck the following options:

• Add Transmit Disk to your menu bar to easily mount favorites in the Finder
• Automatically sync favorites via Dropbox

Click the green Let's Go button.

Transmit Layout

In Transmit (and most other FTP programs), there are two 'sides' of the application window. The left side is your computer. The right side is the web server. Before you can upload any files to the Simmons server, you will have to enter the connection information for it.

FTP and Security

While we always talk about using "FTP", the File Transfer Protocol is actually very old. Using basic FTP is unsecure and result in all data, including passwords, being sent over the network in plain text. Because of this, we should always use a secure version of FTP. The most commonly used option is SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol), which is commonly referred to as Secure FTP.

• Select the SFTP tab from the right pane in Transmit

Finding Files On Your Computer

Most of the time when working in class or in the labs, you should be saving your files in the Sites folder. You can click on the Favorites icon in the upper left of the Transmit window to go to different places on your computer.

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