Publishing with FTP

"FTP" is short for File Transfer Protocol, and it is a common way to transfer files between computers.  In this case we need to "upload" or publish the web pages (files) from your computer to the web server.

Required software

In order to use FTP, you must have a FTP client program installed on your PC - in other words, you need software on your PC in order to talk to the FTP server.

If you are using Internet Explorer version 5 or later, you already have a FTP software: it is built right into the browser.  To publish with Internet Explorer, do the following:

In the Address bar, type ftp://<user id>:<password>@ftp.cozahost.com/<yourdirectory >, and replace all the words in <> with the information supplied to you by Cozahost.

Example:

For example, if your user id is user and your password is pwd and your directory is website, the address would be:

ftp://user:pwd@ftp.cozahost.com/website (Don't click on this link - it's only an example)

Of course you must be online (connected to the internet) when you do this!

After a short wait you will see a list of files in your browser - this is your web site.  To upload a file, simply select one from a folder on your PC and drop it in the browser. 

To download, rename or delete a file on the server: right click on the file name (in your browser) and select the required function from the menu.

More advanced:

Publishing like this with Internet Explorer can be cumbersome when you repeatedly publish groups of files, and we suggest that you download a specialised FTP client program if you intend to use FTP regularly.

Another (better) alternative is of course to use the Microsoft Frontpage publishing feature.