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DOS FTP |
To upload
in DOS, follow these instructions - please note, you must upload
each file on your site individually. It is a useful process if you
don't have an FTP package available and do not wish to download or
install one. |
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| Similar
instructions apply for other command line interfaces (a Bash shell
for example). |
| Go to the Start
menu - Programs - MS-DOS Prompt , and at the C:\WINDOWS prompt type ftp
your_domain_name.com |
| You should then
receive the message: |
| Connected to your_domain_name.com 220 homepages FTP
server (Version wu-2.4(8) Tue Jan 17 10:30:45 MEST 1995) ready. User
(your_domain_name.com:(none)): or somthing
similar |
| Enter your
domain name (username) here, press return, and you should see
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| 331 Password required for domain. Password: Enter your password here,
and you should then see: |
| 230 User domain logged in. Access restrictions
apply. |
| To access the htdocs folder type |
| cd htdocs |
| You can now
perform file transfers, for instance, typing the command: |
| send c:\website\index.html |
| would transfer
the file 'index.html' )Which is the first page a browser will look
at), which is in the 'website' directory on your C drive, to the
server. |
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| You may also
need the following commands. |
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| dir -
directory listing |
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| rmdir
dirname - remove a directory on server |
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| mkdir
dirname - make a directory on server |
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| delete file - delete a file |
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| cd dirname - change directory on server |
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lcd dirname - change local directory
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