Using Netscape FTP to Transfer Files to Polaris

Transferring your web page (mypage.html) to your Web Page using Netscape

Step 1 - Now you need to ftp to your web site, so enter the following address in the Netscape location bar
ftp://(yourusername)@polaris.umuc.edu/users/student/(yourusernameagain)

Step 2- You will now see a list of files and folders that are in your polaris account.

Step 3 - Click on the WWW folder. It will open but nothing will appear. You must click WWW to open that folder. Failing to do so will result in web pages being uploaded to your root folder in Polaris. Nobody else will be able to see them there.

Step 4 - Go now to the word File in the Netscape menu bar. Click on the word File, then scroll down and click on the word upload, now go to where your file mypage.html is stored and click on it twice. Or you can also click once and then click open. At this point your computer will tell you that it is uploading the file to the remote server.

Step 5 - Click on the word or symbol reload in your Navigation toolbar and you should see the mypage.html file in your www directory.

Step 6 - Now you have to telnet back into polaris. Make sure you are in the www directory. If you don't know where you are you can either type pwd to discover your present working directory or you can type cd and then type cd www You should now be in the www directory.

Step 7 - The next thing we need to do is give the file we transferred permissions. At the polaris prompt, while you are in the www directory, type in chmod 755 mypage.html

Note a: Every time you transfer a new file to your www directory you have to give it permission. So remember to chmod 755 (file.name) every file you transfer in. If you do not do this you will not be able to see the file on the web. So once you have give mypage.html the correct permissions you never have to do it again. Even when you change the content of mypage.html.

Note b: To make sure that the permissions have actually worked, first reload the page and then do a ls -l to see what permissions go with the file. You should see something like - rwx - r-x - r-x (the file's name). If you see that then your file has the proper permissions. If you don't see that then you need to do a chmod 755 (file name) again until you do see the proper code.

Type in the word exit and exit from polaris.