Connect to an FTP Site with Site Manager

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The Site Manager is a storage location for FTP Server information, where you enter the server login parameters once, for later reuse. For example: If you have a web server at a web hosting company and you need to upload some files to it, the web hosting company will give you three essential pieces of information:

1.	Host address: ftp.server.com

2.	Username: joe_smith

3.	Password: xyz123abc

You need this information to make a connection the server and to upload files. NOTE: You cannot make a connection using this sample data; you will need to get your own connection parameters from the web hosting company.

Create a New Site with Site Manager

1.

Click the Connect button on the toolbar to open the Site Manager window

2.

Click the New button.

3.

Enter My Web Server to the Site Label field. (This is free-form name for the new site.)

4.

Enter ftp.server.com to the Host Address field

5.

Deselect the Log in as Anonymous User check box (to make it inactive)

6.

Enter joe_smith to the Username field

7.

Enter xyz123abc to the Password field

8.

Click the OK button to save the new site

Now you can see the new site entry My Web Server in the tree view. The list of sites is automatically saved for later use.

Connect to the Site

1.

Select the My Web Server site in the tree view

2.

Click the Connect button, or, as a short-cut, double-click the site name with your mouse

3.

The remote files appear in the right-hand file listing pane; and you are now connected

Upload a file

Change to remote server folder where you want file to be uploaded

1.

Change the remote folder by double-clicking folder names until you are in the proper destination folder

2.

For this example, we will change to the /httpdocs folder

Locate and select file to upload on the local computer

1.	Change the local folder by double-clicking the folder names on the left until you find the file you want to upload

2.	For this example, we will change to the C:\WebSite folder

3.	Select the file you want to upload. For this example, we will select the index.html local file

Upload the file

1.	Use your mouse to drag'n drop the index.html file from the local file pane to the remote file pane (from left to right)

2.	Your local file is uploaded to the remote folder. After the transfer is completed, the file appears in the remote file pane

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