FTP at Dawson College
File Transfer Protocol
The fastest way to download files is to use an FTP client like WS_FTP.
If WS_FTP is not installed on your computer, you must:
- Download FTP (If it isn't already installed on your computer.)
- Install FTP (If it isn't already installed on your computer.)
- Configure FTP
- for your Student DC1 Account. (Please don't use A999999)
- for your Angelfire/Lycos account
- for Anonymous FTP.
Download FTP
- Core FTP is freeware - ($0) - (setup is even easier than for WS_FTP)
WS_FTP LE is freeware - ($0)
WS_FTP Pro is $hareware.
- Download FTP to your computer
- Check that the downloaded file is now in your computer.
Installation/Setup of the downloaded file
- If the file you have just downloaded (to your computer) has a file extension of .EXE or .ZIP, then you must Unzip it and then Setup/Install it.
- Use Windows Explorer to find the file you just downloaded into the your computer directory.
- If (and only if) you can't find Windows Explorer:
- Start (button) (on the left side of the task bar at the bottom of your screen)
- Run ...
- Explorer
- Double-click on the filename/icon (in your computer) (You must be using Windows Explorer, not Internet Explorer.)
- Follow all the onscreen instructions. If you are unsure about which option to choose, just accept the default (by clicking on OK or Next).
- Delete the downloaded file. After the Setup program has finished installing your program to its own directory, you can then delete the file (in your computer) that you downloaded.
FTP access to your DC1 student account
using WS_FTP LE 5.06 |
Warning: Do not use h:\html as the "Initial Local directory" when using WS_FTP. If you ignore this warning, you risk losing all your files.
I recommend that you save all your Web page files in h:\backup
You should also (at the end of every day) make a backup copy of all your Web page files to your USB drive (or diskette or CD-R/RW.
At home you will probably want to use something like c:\homepage |
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Go through the following steps line-by-line. Do not skip any step or line of the following instructions!
- Cancel (button)
- ¤ Binary
- þ Auto
- Options (button)
- General (tab)
- E-mail Address
- anonymous@somewhere (or anything that looks like an e-mail address)
- ¨ Enable Log
- Ok (button)
- Connect (button)
- New (button)
- General (tab)
- Profile Name: Ima Student - A999999 (Use your own name & username)
- Host Name: dc1.dawsoncollege.qc.ca
- Host Type: "UNIX (standard)" or "Automatic detect"
- User ID:
.username.NovellNetwareContextWithAtLeatOneDot (Don't forget the dots!!!!!) (e.g. .A9999999.F09) - Note that the Novell Context is no longer required.
- User ID: A999999 (Use your own name & username)
- Password: same as your Novell login password
- Account: (leave blank)
- ¨ Anonymous
- ¨ Save Password (Don't save your password on a public computer. But it's ok at home.)
- Startup (tab)
- Initial Remote Host Directory: html (if this doesn't work, try HTML or Html)
- Initial Local directory: h:\backup or a:\ or c:\homepage etc ...
- Apply (button)
- OK (button)
Warning: Do not use h:\html as the "Initial Local directory" when using WS_FTP. If you ignore this warning, you risk losing all your files.
I recommend that you save all your Web page files in h:\backup
You should also (at the end of every day) make a backup copy of all your Web page files to your USB drive (or diskette or CD-R/RW.
At home you will probably want to use something like c:\homepage |
- Linux servers.
- The username and password are case sensitive.
- (A999999 is not the same as a999999 if the account is on a Linux/Unix server.)
- To change your password you may need to use Telnet.
- Note that Windows2000 has reverted to a text-based interface for Telnet.
- run > telnet
- open linuxservername.com
- ? or help
- passwd (Choosing your password)
- exit
- If you want to use index.html, you must automatically redirect your visitor from index.html to index.htm You may copy this code (index.html) and upload (FTP) your new index.htm and this index.html to your account.
Automatic Redirection / Forwarding
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index.html
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<html>
<head>
<title>Redirection by PJK</title>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0;
URL=index.htm">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
</body></html> |
- You may use your /cgi-bin directory for any CGI scripts you find or create.
- Don't forget to change the rights to any files you put in /cgi-bin. (chmod)
- Don't forget to use ASCII mode when uploading CGI scripts.
- You may not use server-side includes (SSI).
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Dawson College
Anonymous FTP
using WS_FTP LE 4.60
Go through the following steps line-by-line. Do not skip any step or line of the following instructions!
- Cancel (button)
- ¤ Binary
- þ Auto
- Options (button)
- General (tab)
- E-mail Address
- anonymous@somewhere (or anything that looks like an e-mail address)
- ¨ Enable Log
- Advanced (tab)
- Ok (button)
- Connect (button)
- New (button)
- General (tab)
- Profile Name: DC Omega Anonymous
- Host Name: omega.dawsoncollege.qc.ca
- Host Type: UNIX (standard)
- Account: (leave blank)
- þ Anonymous
- ¨ Save Password
- Startup (tab)
- Initial Remote Host Directory: /
- Initial Local directory: c:\Windows\Temp
- Apply (button)
- OK (button)
Browser - FTP
Windows Explorer - FTP
ftp://username:password@DomainName.TopLevelDomain
- Open MSIE ( Microsoft Internet Explorer) or Open Windows Explorer
- Type this into your address bar: ftp://dc1.dawsoncollege.qc.ca
or ftp://username:password@DomainName.TopLevelDomain
or ftp://username@DomainName.TopLevelDomain
You must use your own Dawson College username and password.
- You should find yourself at the S: drive which is the same as ftp://dc1.dawsoncollege.qc.ca
- S: is an anonymous login. This is not what you want. You want to login to your account at Dawson College so that you can access your H: drive.
- To view your registered FTP site in Windows Explorer
- View (menu)
or Page (toolbar button)
or File menu and click on "Login As ... -- (on some operating systems)
- userID would be something like A999999
Your student userID would be something like .A999999.ds (ds = dawson student)
or .A999999.F05 or .A999999.W05 or .A999999.F06 etc ...- Note that the context is no longer required. You no longer need to use the dots or the term (e.g. F08).
- Password: (you should know your own password)
- You will find yourself at your very own H: drive. You can now drag&drop to&from your own computer's hard drive (C: or D: etc.) to your H: drive on the Dawson College DC1 server.
- To publish your own Website you will double click on your "web" directory, (This will be the directory where you place your HTML files: html, public_html, etc ...).
Note:
Linux FTP Server Directories that contain Web pages must be visible, from the top down (/home), to the world because the web server is "nobody". Subdirectories other than public_html (and its subdirectories) may have permissions set to 700 to make them invisible to other users.
Don Hackett 2002-01-09