Uploading your web page

After you have created a web page, (an html file), you need to upload it to the web server. In this case, the web server is qcpages.qc.cuny.edu

Uploading - transferring a file from your computer to the web server.

Downloading - transferring a file from the web server to your computer

In our case, we are going to use a software application called WinSCP to upload and download files to and from qcpages.qc.cuny.edu

WinSCP encrypts your password when you connect to the server so it is very secure.

Other web hosts might use FTP (file transfer protocol) to upload and download files. FTP is not as secure as SSH but otherwise it is similar to WinSCP.

Steps to upload a file from your computer to a web server

1. Download and install WinSCP.Mac users can use Filezilla.
   
2. Launch WinSCP by clicking on the icon.
3. Click the "New" button.
4. For "Host name" enter qcpages.qc.cuny.edu
5. QC students should enter your "instr\yourusername" and "password" and then click "login"
6. QC faculty should enter your "qc\yourusername" and "password" and then click "login"
7. Once you are connected you will see that the screen is divided in two. One the right side you will see the web server and on the left side you will see your computer.
8. If you look at the very top of the right side, you will see the following: /home/username (this will be your username) This shows you where you are located right now, after you logged in.
9. Below you will see the following: three folders: bin, documents, and public_html. The only one you have to worry about for now is the public_html folder. This is where you will be putting your web page files.
10. Double click on the public_html folder to change to that directory. If you look at the top right corner you should now see the following path: /home/username/public_html This shows that you are now in your web page directory.
11. Now let's transfer your web page file. Look over on the left. You are probably in the "My Documents" folder. You can double click on folders to find your hello.html file.
12. To upload your file click on the hello.html file, then click on the "Copy" button at the lower left side of the screen. A menu will pop up asking "Copy file "hello.html" to remote directory /home/username/public_html/*.* Go ahead and click the "Copy" button again. You should see the file transferred.
13. Now look over on the right side and you should see hello.html listed.