CuteFTP
Overview
CuteFTP
allows you to easily transfer your web page files from your computer
to your web hosting account on our servers.
Contents:
How
to set up CuteFTP
Short explanation of the folders for your account
How
to set up CuteFTP:
Create
a connection entry for your website with the information you received
in your welcome email. If you no longer have the welcome email,
the required information for your hosting account (except your password)
can be viewed on your control panel in the upper left. You can create
the entry using the IP address for your website, or by using ftp.yourdomain.com,
as shown below, if your domain name is active on our system. Type
in the appropriate username and password for your hosting account. Note
that your password is automatically stored for you - remember to
change your password here if you change your password via your hosting account control
panel!
Once
you've entered that information, click the Edit button. You can
set the directory where the program will start by default by entering
that path in the "Default Remote Directory". Generally,
you will want to set this to the main folder for your website, which
is /public_html, as shown below. You can also set the directory
where your web files are located on your pc by specifying that directory
in the "Default Local Directory" field, again, as shown
below. Please note that the slash direction is important when entering
these paths. Click OK to save these settings.
A
short explanation of the folders for your hosting account:
When
you FTP to your hosting account, or when you view a list of files and folders
from the File Manager on the hosting account control panel, you will see certain
system-created folders for your use. These folders should not be
deleted when maintaining your account: public_html, www, tmp,
etc, mail, and cgi-bin. In addition, if
you install FrontPage extensions on your hosting account, the _vti* folders
should be added to the list. Deleting these folders could leave
your website inaccessible until support can restore them or recreate
them.
