FTP Help
1. Cute FTP Help
NOTE: These instructions are written for use with CuteFTP 4.0.
If you do not have CuteFTP 4.0, an evaluation version is available
at www.cuteftp.com.
Although our service is compatible with many different FTP clients,
we have provided information for the most used FTP clients for your
convenience.
Instructions
Open
the CuteFTP client and click on the Quick Connect button.
Enter
your server name, username, and password in the Quick Connect boxes.
This information was supplied by Bizcom in your account
setup email. The server name is your domain name or your IP
address. If your domain name has not yet transferred / registered,
you must use ftp.bizcom.com as your address.
Once
you have entered your login information, click the "Connect"
button at the end of the login bar (the circled lightning bolt in
the graphic above next to "Port: 21").
Once
you are connected to the server, navigate to your local website
folder in the left window pane. You can upload files to the
server by dragging and dropping from the left window to the right
window.
Note:
in order for your site to show up when you type in your domain name
into a web browser, You must place all of your
files in the html subdirectory in your account's directory.
The first page or the home page must be named
one of these file names, if there is an
existing "index.html" you must replace it with your own:
index.html
index.htm
Frequently
asked questions about FTP
2. FTP
Upload Instructions WS_FTP
NOTE:
These
instructions are written for use with WS_FTP. If you do not
have WS_FTP,
an evaluation version is available at www.wsftp.com.
Instructions
Open
the WS_FTP client and click the NEW button (shown below).
1. Profile Name - Name your
site in the "Profile Name" field (this can be any name
to distinguish your site from other sites in the FTP client workspace.)
Examples:
My Site, My domain, My Whatever
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2. Host Name/Address -
The server name is your domain name or your IP address. If
your domain name has not yet transferred / registered, you
may
use ftp.bizcom.com as your address.
Example:
ftp.yourdomainname.com
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3. Host type - this should be
set to "automatic detect"
4.
User ID - this is the "username" that was
issued to you when you signed up with Bizcom.
5. Password - This is the "password"
that was issued to you when you signed up with Bizcom.com
(note: if you check the "save password check box",
you will not have to enter this password again.)
5. Click
"Apply" and Click "OK"
To Transfer files to your remote directory.
1.
Find the file on the left side which is your Computer directory
or Local Directory.
2. Click on the file to highlight it and click the arrow
that faces to the Right side which is your Remote directory to send
the file to that directory.
(Note: Repeat
in reverse to download from your remote directory to your Local
Computer directory.)
Note:
in order for your site to show up when you type in your domain name
or IP address into a web browser, the first page or the home page
must be named one of these file names:
index.html
(standard HTML extension)
index.htm (standard HTML extension)
Also,
these documents carry an "order of precedence" as they
are listed above. For example, if you have both an index.html
file and an index.htm file, the index.html file will be the one
that shows up when viewing your site with the domain name.
Frequently
asked questions about FTP
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