G053 - Lecture 18 Uploading Your Site Mr C Johnston ICT Teacher

Session Objectives Understand how to publish a website on a website

Overview To upload your website to a server you need to use an FTP (file transfer protocol) client, An FTP client allows you to copy files from your computer to your folder on the web server, Most use drag and drop so its just look copying files from a fixed disk to a flash drive!! You will need to log into the server before transfer can begin. Your teacher will provide you with a username and password for the computech server.

Using FTP In IE Windows has a built in FTP client – to access: type the FTP address of the web server or download and double click on the short, when prompted for a user name and password use the name different versions of windows behave differently at this point previous versions of IE should show your files and folders and you can simply drop files from your local machine to your server space in IE7 you need to go to page > open FTP site in Windows Explorer. Your files and folders will then show in a different window and you can simply drop files from your local machine to your server space

Drag and drop files from local wwwroot folder to one on the web server

Common Issues Homepage doesn’t display? Delete the home.html from the area before you start and replace with your own Images missing? You have not transferred your images folder Form doesn’t work? myDatabase.mdb Must be uploaded to the dbase folder Its slow? server may not be able to cope with the demand of 20 students uploading at once – be patience Issues with transfer? IE is a little clunky try a different client e.g. WS FTP LE which is on the website.

Exercise Finish your site and use an FTP client to upload the site, Take a few screen shots of the process as evidence that you have uploaded your site to a web server (for task bii).