Hosting Your Web site Guide to Accessing Student Web Space (for most up-to-date information) Guide to Accessing Student Web Space See a video demo of using NotePad to create a web page at See a video demo of using NotePad For the FTP software, use FileZilla (Windows/Mac/Linux) client that can be downloaded at or Make sure you are downloading the “Client” version for your specific platform. For windows platform, go to _ _win32-setup.exe _ _win32-setup.exe

Build and Test Your Web Site Locally Create web pages and save them locally in a folder on your hard drive or flash drive. Test your web pages locally. Upload them to our Student Web Space using a ftp client. Test the hosted web pages using a URL such as Make any changes locally first, test it locally, and then update all changed or new files to the server again. Test the hosted pages again.

Enter the host setting Host: student.csuci.edu Username example: Your CSUCI user name such as pat.smith123 Password: your CSUCI password Port: 22 Click on Quickconnect button

22 Double-click files to upload Host: student.csuci.edu Username example: pat.smith123 Password: your CSUCI password Port: 22 Click on Quick Connect

Quick Connet When you click Quick Connet, you will see the following dialogue box, click OK button to continue.

Select the correct folder for local site and remote site Highlight the local folder where you store your local web site (pages) Click on your + sign in front your remote site folder to expand it to see the public_html folder. Click on it to highlight it. Click on the plus sign

Upload Click right mouse button on highlighted local files to be uploaded and then choose Upload Or click on the local files one at a time to upload each file.

What is your web site URL? The URL (i.e., web address) to the home page of your student web site is: + "~" (the tilde character) + your Dolphin User Name Example: a student named Pat Smith with the Dolphin User Name “pat.smith123” would have the following web site home page: When publishing your home page to your web space, you are recommended to name your home page “ index.html ”. This will ensure that when someone goes to your web site address, the web page called index.html will be the first page which appears. It allows people to access your Web site using a simpler URL such as No file name is needed in the URL.