FileZilla SFTP Setup
Changes to personal web sites occured February 18, 2008!
Recent changes to personal web services for campus users may require the use of a 3rd-party sFTP (secure file transfer protocol) application, such as FileZilla for Windows, in order to connect and transfer files from a local computer to the web server. Recent versions of Dreamweaver (2004, Studio 8 and CS3) and Contribute (3 and 4 aka CS3) support sFTP natively and do not require a 3rd-party sFTP application to move files between the local computer and web server.
- If you do not already have FileZilla, you can obtain it from the Novell Application Explorer or download it from http://filezilla-project.org/
- Open FileZilla, which should be installed in your Start > All Programs menu (on University lab computers, this is stored in a program group called SSH, Telnet, (s)FTP).
- The default FileZilla window will appear.
- Select File > Site Manager from the menubar, click New Site and name it appropriately. Set Host to www.appstate.edu unless you are connecting to another host, and connect using SFTP using SSH2. Replace Username and Password with your University username and password (the same used for AppalNET, email and Novell). Click Connect to connect to the remote server.
- Upon your first connection to the server, or if you have previously denied the host key, you will be requested to accept a host key fingerprint from the server. Click Yes to accept the certificate and you will not be prompted again.
- Upon successful connection, you will be in your home directory on the server (right pane). You may already have files in this directory as well as a public_html directory. The public_html directory is the location for your web pages and files. The left pane displays local files. On the remote side, double-click public_html to open this directory in preparation for uploading and files. If you already have a published web site, you will see the files inside this directory.
- In the left pane (local computer) navigate to the location of your web site - you may need to create a directory to store your web site if you need to download it from the server. To simplify the interface, select View > Local Tree to uncheck this option - now the remote and local pane layouts are the same.
- FileZilla has drag-and-drop capabilities for uploading and downloading files and folders between the local computer and server. To download a file from the remote server, click and drag the file from the remote pane (right) to the local (left) and release to download the file. To upload an individual file or folder, reverse this process.
- To download a file manually, right-click the file in the remote server pane (right) and select Download from the contextual menu. To upload a file manually, follow this process on the local computer pane (left)
