FTP stands for "File Transfer Protocol" - transferring files from one computer to another. You need one of these to transfer your Web site files from your hard drive to a web server for viewing on the internet.
 WSFTP Free download
- Open the WSFTP program, fill in the fields with the host, username, and password that we sent you when your account was activated. "Host type" can be set to "automatic detect". Click "save password" if you do not want to be prompted for it again. Click 'ok' and then "Connect". After you are connected to the server, the left window will be the files on your hard drive; the right window will be the files on the server.
- Select file(s) in the left window and click the -> button to transfer ithem to the server. That's it! Easy!
To set permissions on a cgi script, simply right click on the file and choose chmod (UNIX). This stands for 'change mode' or 'change permissions'. Without giving visitors permission to access your cgi script, they will get the dreaded "you do not have PERMISSION to access this script" error.
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Comman cgi permission settings:
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owner: read, write, execute
group: read
other: read, write, execute |
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owner: read, write, execute
group: read, write, execute
other: read, write, execute |
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On our servers:
The path to perl is: /usr/bin/perl
The path to sendmail is: /usr/sbin/sendmail
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Other FTP programs are similar although they may call their controls by different names.
How to set up and use an FTP program on a Mac:
FetchFree download
- Open Fetch and choose "New Shortcut" from the Customize menu.
- Create a name for this account. (maybe call it yourdomain.com, substituting your own domain name)
- Next, select "type" = folder
- Enter your domain name in the "host" field. NOTE: no http://, www, or ftp. is needed, just yourdomain.com.
- Enter the username that we sent you when you account was activated in the "User ID" location.
- Enter the password that we sent you when your account was activated in the "Password" field.
- You can leave the "directory" field blank or you can enter "/htdocs" (without the quotes) and your logon will place you in your Web site directory on the server straight away. (All files must be in the htdocs directory to be accessable from the Web. (NOTE: "htdocs" stands for HTML documents)
- Click "OK" and now you can access this shortcut from File / shortcut / your account. That's it! Easy!
To set permissions on a cgi script, simply select the file and choose "Remote / Set Permissions". Without giving visitors permission to access your cgi script, they will get the dreaded "you do not have PERMISSION to access this script" error.
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Comman cgi permission settings:
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755
owner: read, write, execute
group: read
other: read, write, execute |
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owner: read, write, execute
group: read, write, execute
other: read, write, execute |
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On our servers:
The path to perl is: /usr/bin/perl
The path to sendmail is: /usr/sbin/sendmail
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Other FTP programs are similar although they may call their controls by different names.
Microsoft FrontPage
FrontPage uses it's own "Publish" feature that is similar to an FTP program. FrontPage can be used on our UNIX servers but the prioritary extensions must be installed. LA Servers does NOT provide technical support for FrontPage. Documentation for FrontPage can be accessed at http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage. FrontPage sites can be created in FrontPage and uploaded using an FTP program. Take complete control of your Web site updates and use less of your server space - use FTP!
Can I use an HTML editor like Dreamweaver to edit a cgi script?
NO! HTML editors like Dreamweaver, GoLive, FrontPage, etc or MS Word will spread the PERL code out in the cgi script and it will not work. ALWAYS use a simple text editor like BBEdit or Notepad to edit cgi scripts.
A Unix webserver always looks for files in a directory in this order: index.html, index.htm, default.html, followed by default.htm. Our "Coming Soon" page is always named index.html. If your homepage is named index.htm, you'll need to delete the index.html file before your index.htm file will show up as your homepage. If your homepage is named index.html, it will overwrite our "Coming Soon" page when you FTP it to the server and will automatically come up correctly.
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