Using CuteFTP

We ran into a snag trying to launch with the Windows98 "web publishing wizard". We are now trying Cute FTP. It has done a great job. An advantage is you can reload an individual page if you make changes. I'll write better directions after I read the manual, in the meantime, here's what I do.

  • Click on the CuteFTP alias on your desktop (or find it in Programs)
  • It has been set up to automatically connect you to the ISD server in the sky. It will let you know when you have been connected. (If I didn't set it up right, let me know)
  • You will see your personal "server in the sky" spot in the right hand window of CuteFTP
  • Open "public_html". This is where your pages belong.
  • In the left hand window, you will navigate to the place on your hard drive where you keep your web. Most of you are keeping it in C:\Webshare\Wwwroot\webname This is an individual choice.
  • Open the folder that holds your web and you should see all the parts of your web. Many of these are folders which were automatically created by FrontPage98.
  • Click and drag all files and folders from the left hand window to the right hand window (in other words you are asking Cute FTP to send them to the sky for you.) Do not send up any folders that begin with _vti.
  • You can select more than one folder or file at a time by using "shift&click". Then drag them all at once.
  • Loading folders takes several minutes. --pages and photos go quickly.
  • Later we will worry about setting "permission". This is important, I just am not sure which way we should go. On my own webs all pages are marked Owner:read write , Group&World:read. This setting of attributes is found under Commands>Advanced>file attributes and we need to get to it fairly soon.
  • Quit
  • Go to your web browser and check to see if your pages made it.
  • If not, do not panic. (ha) E-mail or phone me. It is probably some simple problem.
  • Oh, yes, if you are adding a page which you changed, you may need to hit "refresh" or reload in your web browser before you see what was newly added. (this has to do with the old page being held in cache)

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