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FTP (File Transfer Protocol)

FTP is an acronym for a procedure that enables you to send your Web page files from your computer to our Webserver.

Note that your Web pages will be saved in a directory called "public_html" (or a subdirectory within it)

Note that file names are CASE SENSITIVE under Linux/Apache:
For this reason, you must make sure that all references to filenames in your HTML exactly match your actual file names on the system -- if they don't, the files will not be found and served properly. We recommend that you keep all file names and file references in lower case for convenience.

We do not recommend that you use Microsoft FrontPage as an FTP client. You may elect to use FrontPage to design your Web site, but we recommend that you use a stand-alone program. Note, also, that WVNET does not support FrontPage server extensions.

How to FTP:

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) allows you to send files from your computer to the WVNET Webserver (Linux). This means you can send Web pages, graphics and/or any other file to your Web directory to transfer to another computer or view on the web.

To send files to the WVNET Webserver:

1. Connect to yourdomainname.com
2. Enter your userid and password
3. Change current directory to the public_html directory
4. Transfer files between your computer and the Webserver

FTP Software:

There are a number of shareware FTP clients available for both Windows and Macintosh operating systems.