FTP Overview

# Posted Sep 14, 1:34pm

This document explains how to change the content on your Ideanode-hosted web site.

Get an FTP client.

If you’re on Windows, we recommend:

• SmartFTP
• LeechFTP

And the Mac:

• Cyberduck
• Transmit

Connecting

In your setup email, you should have gotten a few lines that look like this:

FTP server: www.example.com
FTP username: joeuser
FTP password: joespass

(these values are fake of course, use the actual ones from the email you received)

Plug these into the connection settings for your FTP client, and you should shortly connect.

Directory Structures and Naming

Once you’ve connected, you should see two folders on the remote server:

• htdocs
• cgi-bin

The content for your web site goes into the htdocs folder, and follows a couple of naming conventions. The first is that you should name the first page of your site ‘index.html’. It’s the page that people will see when they go to www.example.com. Please note to call this file index.html (in lower case!), not INDEX.HTML or Index.html.

Note that this naming convention works for the page to be loaded in a directory, so if you wanted a page to load when you went to www.example.com/resume/, you would put a file called ‘index.html’ in htdocs/resume.

Recap

Okay, we’re going to upload 3 files to our server, a Home Page, a Contact page, and a Resumé page.

The urls and files would be

Page	URL	Directory
Home Page	http://www.example.com/
Contact Page	http://www.example.com/contact.html	htdocs/contact.html
Resumé	http://www.example.com/resume/	htdocs/resume/index.html

That’s it! Please contact support if you have any questions.