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FTP Uploading Your Pages:

How do you get your website there?

 

Uploading your pages to your server is referred to as FTP (File Transfer Protocol). There are many FTP software packages available. The one I use is Filezilla. It is free and gives you a free high quality reliable open source application.

This is the same application packaged with XAMPP's free Apache Server for PHP/MySQL that you will download later. You can get the necessary information to connect from your hosting company. HostMonster lists it right on you CPanel page when you log in. There are also online ftp clients that you may use on that website. Once your local server is set up, I strongly suggest writing, editing and testing on your local server and then uploading all at once.

 

Here is an excerpt from the Filezilla web site.

 

 

FileZilla Features

Overview

FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface.

Features

Among others, the features of FileZilla include the following:

  • Easy to use
  • Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
  • Cross-platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X and more
  • IPv6 support
  • Available in many languages
  • Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB
  • Powerful Site Manager and transfer queue
  • Bookmarks
  • Drag & drop support
  • Configurable transfer speed limits
  • Filename filters
  • Network configuration wizard
  • Remote file editing
  • Keep-alive
  • HTTP/1.1, SOCKS5 and FTP-Proxy support
  • Logging to file

 

 

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Documentation

From FileZilla Wiki

FileZilla Client Links

 
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