How do I upload files to an FTP site????

[Jechols]

Ok, I'm embarrased to even ask, but I've never had to upload files to an FTP site and have no idea how to do it. I have the IP address and password and the files...All the pieces are there, just not the basic knowledge to do it...Thanks so much!!


Jennifer

 

[Serbtastic]

Are you using Windows XP? If so, you can use the command line ftp client to upload the files. See the XP help for info on what the commands do.

Otherwise, download a gui FTP client and upload the files. I use WS_FTP LE as its an easy to use, no nonsense ftp client.

 

[smah]

You can also use many browsers, including IE. In the address bar just type the URL, such as ftp://servername.org, then depending on the server & browser, you might need to do a File, Login As.. Then just drag & drop files. Even better would be a full FTP client which can be picked up at most shareware websites.

 

[Jechols]

Thanks so much. I really appreciate it.

 

[jpm121]

If you're hard core, CLI kind of guy, the command is "put" (as opposed to "get" which is used to download from the server).

 

[SimonDavies]

put is only used to up single files.

As a warning for the CLI based ftp client, if you are wanting to upload binary files (ie non text) you would first need to change to Bin and then either put or mput or get or mget.

Generally here is a sample of what I would do.

from the command line (assuming it's DOS)

FTP ftp.site.com

it would then prompt for username and password.

If you are copying files from your machine up then you would need to do an LCD (local drive)..

LCD c:\temp\

then browse to the directory on the ftp site where you need to upload to.

Then type.

Bin

to change from ascii to binary

and then either put or mput

mput * would put all of the files in the LCD directory onto the ftp directory.

If you want to download then use get or mget, just remember that you need to change to bin to download binary executables (pretty much everything not ascii related).

Hope that helps.

 

[Serbtastic]

Hash is also a nice option to watch the upload/download progress.

 

[SimonDavies]

Yeah I was going to add that but I couldn't remember the increments that it reports.

 

[Serbtastic]

The size of a data block is 2048 bytes (as per

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/ftp__hash.mspx).