Using FileZilla

 


FileZilla is a program for transferring files from one computer to another. It is a free program that you can download and run on Windows, Macs, or Linux computers. You can use FileZilla to transfer web pages or other files from your own computer or from a lab computer to the K College CS student server for web pages (student.cs.kzoo.edu). On a lab computer, you get to the FileZilla program available from the Windows Start menu.

To transfer files to the student.cs.kzoo.edu web page server, bring up FileZilla, enter student.cs.kzoo.edu in the "Host:" field. Then use the same user name and password that you use to access your email account.

In the left side of the window, find the web page directory on the local machine where you have created files you want to transfer. The right side should show the files you have on the server (empty if you haven't uploaded any files yet*). You can copy files or an entire directory to the web server simply by dragging the appropriate items from the left side to the right side. If you are transferring a web page that includes images or links to other files in the same directory, you must transfer those related files as well.

Test that it copied correctly: bring up a new browser tab and type student.cs.kzoo.edu/k00ab01/index.html in the browser location window (using your userid instead of k00ab01 and your filename if it is something other than index.html). If you named the file index.html, you should also be able to see it by just typing student.cs.kzoo.edu/k00ab01/ (using your userid instead of k00ab01). Be sure to test all of your links to check that they still work.

Keep in mind that there are now two copies of your web page, the working copy stored on your laptop, OneDrive, or USB drive and the published copy on the "People" server that is visible to the world. Changes that you make to your working copy are only visible to you. To make your updated page visible to other people, you need to publish it by uploading it to the server using the file transfer mechanism described here.


*You might see . and .. in either the left or right file listing. These just refer to the current and parent directories, respectively. You could click on .. to show the files in the directory above the current one, but usually you will just leave these alone.