How to Upload to Web Server

How to Upload to Web Server

Once you register on one free server, then the last step so that the web page you can see all the people are uploading or sending files to a web server.

There are two kinds of means used to send the file to a web server, which is directly through a browser or via FTP (File Transfer Protocol). For that you need to know which method is supported by your web server. For example, www.homepage.com use the browser to upload, use FTP www.virtualave.net www.tripod.com while to be able to use a browser or FTP. Which will be discussed here is to send files using FTP.

Software that can be used are WS FTP or CuteFTP. (Not to be confused with the word FTP with WS FTP or CuteFTP. FTP is a protocol used to communicate with web servers, while WFTP or CuteFTP is the software used to connect to the web server. Nutshell WS_FTP and CuteFTP is software that supports FTP protocol to deal with the web server).

For these steps we provide below using CuteFTP software and web server www.virtualave.net. You can apply these steps in WS_FTP or other FTP software and web servers, because in principle is the same.

1. From the FTP menu select Quick Connect.
2. Fill in the fields host address, user ID and password provided by the web server to you. If in virtualave.net eg host address = s36.virtualave.net, user id = winfolder, password = sda45sddf.
3. Click OK.
4. Wait a while until CuteFTP to successfully connects with the web server.
5. If a successful connection will display a dialog box containing the particulars. Just click OK.
6. Now that you see on the right hand column. It is a folder located on your web server. It seems the folder named public_html. Double-click the folder. Well, in that folder you should put your files.
7. The left column is the location of files on your computer. For that move to the folder where you saved the file to be uploaded.
8. Block files you want to upload, then right click and select upload.
9. Wait until upload process is finished.
10. In addition, you can create folders / new directory on your web server. I click right on the right hand column, select the Make Directory, click OK.
11. For other commands you can learn yourself