How to Upload a Web Page to Plone via FTP

From Core FTP Lite:

Basic FTP Settings:

• Site Name: www.sunyrockland.edu
• Host Name: www.sunyrockland.edu
• Username: use your RCC email user name (for example: jsmith)
• Password: use your RCC email password
• Port: 21 (default)
• Remote Start Folder: /Members/your_user_name (for example: /Members/jsmith)
• Local Start Folder: where your html file located in the hard drive(for example: c:\Documents and Settings\jsmith\My Documents\My Web Pages)

Click Connect to make the FTP connection.

From the above screen, you can be able to upload your files in one of three ways:

• Select the file and click on the Upload button.
• or Drag the files from the your local file list to the remote file list.
• or Right click on the file from the local file list and select upload from the pop-up menu.
  

You will then see files begin to transfer.

Run FTP from Windows XP:

• Click "Start" from the Windows menu, and then click "Run" from the pop-up menu
• From the "Run" window, type: "cmd " and press "OK"



• Change to the hard disk directory where your files located.

for example: "cd C:\Documents and Settings\jsmith\My Documents\My Web Pages"

• Enter "ftp www.sunyrockland.edu"
• Enter your username (same as your RCC email username) and press "Enter"
• Enter your password (same as your RCC email password) and press "Enter"
  ** You should see "Login successful"
• Change directory to your web directory.

** Example: "cd /Members/jsmith" for jsmith's web folder, "cd /is" for information services's department's web folder

• At the prompt, type "bin" if your are uploading binary files (such as word documents, pdf files, images)
• At the prompt, type "put" and the file name that your wish to upload ( for example "put mypage.html") and then press "Enter"
• When done, type "bye" at the prompt to close the ftp section.