Uploading Files to Your Web Space---Mac Lab

  1. Launch the "launcher" > Select the "Internet Applications" bar > Double click on the "SFTP" icon
  2. Select File > New Connection
  3. Your host name is "garnet.acns.fsu.edu", no quotes of course; Your user name is abc1234 or xyz02a; Your password is the same one for your email account
  4. You should see two folders "mail" and "public_html" --- for simple file transfes between machines, make a new folder called "transfer" -- your mail folder is compiled and maintained by the ACNS, and your public_html folder is where you put your website
  5. Under the "remote" menu (I'll doublecheck) is where you create new folders, delete files, etc.
  6. Drag items into the window. Unlike a regular desktop, you can't drag a file and drop it into a closed folder, the folder has to be opened, double click to open the folder -- then drag your documents into it.
  7. Select the document you've uploaded. Under the "remote" menu, choose "set permissions". In the resulting dialogue box, check mark the boxes so the shape is an upside down U (755)
  8. Go back a level, choose the "public_html" folder, and set those permissions....
  9. Go back a level, set your "public_html" permissions...
  10. Do not go back one more level in the MCH lab---you'll crash your machine. Go to the PC lab to set the permissions on your "root folder" (abc1234) or use Unix commands
  11. View your site. You do not have to close your connection

Uploading Files to Your Web Space---PC lab

  1. Start > Programs > Internet Applications > SSH Secure Shell > Secure File Transfer Client
  2. See how the window is divided into local and remote sections? "Local" is your machine, "remote" is the web.
  3. Under the File menu, select "connect" or "quick connect"
  4. Your host name is "garnet.acns.fsu.edu", no quotes of course; Your user name is abc1234 or ab02a; Your password is the same one for your email account
  5. You should see two folders "mail" and "public_html" --- for simple file transfes between machines, make a new folder called "transfer" by right clicking in the remote window -- your mail folder is compiled and maintained by the ACNS, and your public_html folder is where you put your website
  6. Either navigate to your "documents" folder in the "local" window, or open the "documents" file on your desktop and drag the items into the "remote" window. Unlike a regular desktop, you can't drag a file and drop it into a closed folder, the folder has to be opened, double click to open it.
  7. Right click on the document, select "properties" and set the permissions in an upside down U shape (755). Hit OK.
  8. Go back a level, select the folder it is in (public_html), right click and select "properties", and set the permissions....
  9. Go back all the way to your "root folder" (abc1234) and set those permissions as well.
  10. View your site using Explorer. (you do not have to close your SSH connection--this will come in very handy if you see an error and want to quickly modify the page and reupload.)

Notes

Every item must have its permissions set. Programs vary on ease of use. Sometimes ou have to select each item and set the permissions individually, sometimes by using a shift constrain you can select every item in the folder together.

The Mac Lab in the FAB uses FUGU as it's SFTP. FUGU is notorious for nt allowing document permissions to be set more than one at a time.

Also, beware this... If your actively highlighted folder is on the "local side" (I believe one side will be blue-gray and the active one will be a brilliant blue) you will set the permissions for your local folders and screw up stuff on your machine--you may lose your desktop for instance. The FAB lab does not use the security scheme that MCH does. You will be able to get the feel of th "real Mac" when you start working over there.

I believe they will be loading SFTP on the FAB machines very soon. Also, you can use DreamWeaver as an SFTP if FUGU is giving you a fit.