FTP

FTP is the most common way to upload your pages on our servers. It is easy and reliable. Just follow these simple rules:

- transfer perl scripts and text files as ASCII text

- transfer gif and jpg images as image or binary file type

You can find many FTP programs on the Internet to download, some are freeware and some are shareware. You can use any of them.

For those of you that do not want to spend time to look for FTP software you can download WsFTP and use it according to its license agreement. Just click on the link below to download it. Unzip it and install it.

WsFTP

On request we can set up an ANONYMOUS ftp area where files can be uploaded or downloaded by anyone in the world without a password. This area is necessarily separate from WWW space and password protected ftp space for obvious reasons. If you want both upload and download anonymous ftp, you may want a read-only subdirectory for distributing files and a separate write-only subdirectory for receiving files. This is to prevent files that you are distributing from being destroyed accidentally, and to prevent files uploaded to you from being distributed to others before you examine them.

If we have set this up, it will appear as the 'anonftp' directory in your home directory.

"So what's the ftp directory?"

Prepare for confusion. We make an ftp link in everyone's home directory when the account is created, and make it the same as the www link. Our FTP server checks for the existence of this link when you log in, and if found, does a chdir("ftp"). What that means is that when you log in with FTP, you do not end up in your home directory, but in your WWW documents directory.

This is convenient for most people, but be aware that if we tell you to put a file in your home directory you must give the command cd /home/your-login before uploading. People who have used *nix systems before may wish to telnet in and remove the ftp link to save their sanity.

WHAT IS AN ANONYMOUS FTP DIRECTORY?

Anonymous FTP is the ability to upload and/or download files from our servers without having a login username and password. Obviously, for security reasons, we only allow anonymous FTP to specific directories.

/bin
/dev
/etc
/lib
/pub

The only directory that is used is the "pub" directory. This is where the client should put files that they want to have users anonymously download. Users can access this directory via a browser by going to:

ftp://domainname.com/pub