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How to upload your website/data using FTP
Posted by Atif Nazeer | Posted in How Tos | Posted on 02-09-2010
Every hosting comes up with some FTP accounts. To know that how many FTP accounts are allowed, you need to log into your hosting cPanel or you can contact your host to get technical details of your hosting. Most of the time, FTP username/password is same as of your default hosting username/password.
There are various methods to transfer data through FTP like there are specialized commercial products like CuteFTP and WS FTP. Most of the development tools like Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe Dreamweaver also come up with built in FTP transfer capability.
As the focus of most of these tutorials is to get you working without delving more into technical details, I’ll today demonstrate that how can you upload your website/data through FTP? The requirements are:-
1.) FTP Account ( FTP username/password )
2.) Mozilla Firefox
3.) FireFTP
4.) Your data ( Of Course )
As stated above, I am assuming that you already have a FTP account. If you don’t know yet, please contact your host to provide these details
FireFTP is an add-on to Mozilla Firefox so to run FireFTP, you first need to download Mozilla Firefox. You can download it from this link.
Once you’ve installed Mozilla Firefox, click on this link:-
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/684/
You’ll see something like this:-
FireFTP Install Window
Click on Add to firefox button and you’ll see a similar window:-
Add to firefox
Click on Install Now button, It’ll take a little to get installed and you’d be required to restart your Mozilla Firefox in order to successfully install FireFTP. After restarting Mozilla Firefox, you should see an option ‘FireFTP‘ in Tools menu of Mozilla Firefox. If you can see FireFTP in Tools menu that means you have successfully installed FireFTP.
FireFTP under Mozilla Firefox Tools menu
When you’ll click on FireFTP, you should see a similar window:-
FireFTP Main Window
In the next part of this tutorial, I’ll show you how can you actually upload your files to your server. Meanwhile, if you need any information, please feel free to ask!
