Transcript AVCE Unit 6 - Introduction

G053 - Lecture 18
Uploading Your Site
Mr C Johnston
ICT Teacher
www.computechedu.co.uk
Session Objectives
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Understand how to publish a website on a website
Overview
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To upload your website to a server you need to use an
FTP (file transfer protocol) client,
An FTP client allows you to copy files from your
computer to your folder on the web server,
Most use drag and drop so its just look copying files
from a fixed disk to a flash drive!!
You will need to log into the server before transfer can
begin.
Your teacher will provide you with a username and
password for the computech server.
Using FTP In IE
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Windows has a built in FTP client – to access:
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type the FTP address of the web server or download and
double click on the short,
when prompted for a user name and password use the
name
different versions of windows behave differently at this point
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previous versions of IE should show your files and folders and you
can simply drop files from your local machine to your server space
in IE7 you need to go to page > open FTP site in Windows Explorer.
Your files and folders will then show in a different window and you
can simply drop files from your local machine to your server space
Drag and drop files
from local wwwroot
folder to one on the
web server
Common Issues
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Homepage doesn’t display?
 Delete the home.html from the area before you start and replace with
your own
Images missing?
 You have not transferred your images folder
Form doesn’t work?
 myDatabase.mdb Must be uploaded to the dbase folder
Its slow?
 server may not be able to cope with the demand of 20 students
uploading at once – be patience
Issues with transfer?
 IE is a little clunky try a different client e.g. WS FTP LE which is on the
website.
Exercise
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Finish your site and use an FTP client to upload the site,
Take a few screen shots of the process as evidence that you
have uploaded your site to a web server (for task bii).