This is typically the file that displays 'This site is under construction' until you put something else there.

Inside of the ( marked 6 on the screenshot). Your website actually lives in a folder that is typically called Select that folder ( step 5 on the screenshot) to see its contents. Note that by default you are connected to the root of your account which is not the same as the root of your website. On the right side, you see your web hosting account. Start by finding the root of your website Yummy FTP has a slightly different view but it boils down to the same concepts: The Yummy FTP Lite window 4. Once you select a folder you can see its contents in the pane below. You can use the directory structure to navigate your hard drive and find the folder you’re interested in. On each side FileZilla shows you 2 panes: you have a directory structure on top and a list of files below. You can see this on the screenshot of FileZilla above. There is a best practice among FTP client to present your local files (what’s on your computer) on the left and remote files (what’s on your server) on the right. Note: you can save all this info in an address book if you frequently need to connect to different FTP servers, but this is beyond the scope of this guide.

Once you’ve entered the info, click 'Connect' or 'Quickconnect' as Filezilla calls it (4). With FileZilla, it looks like this: The FileZilla window Just copy and paste each of these strings carefully into the 'Connection' dialog box of your FTP client.

sometimes an FTP port but this is pretty rare.

So make your choice, download and install an FTP client on your computer.

On Mac OS X we like to use Yummy FTP lite (Free Trial!) or Transmit. There are paid tools which look much better. A good free option for Mac, Windows and Linux is Filezilla. The client will then connect to the server and tell it to do what you need it to do.Īlthough you might never have heard of them, there are many FTP clients available.

The Client is a piece of software you will install on your computer. The Server is your web server (which includes an FTP server). It’s called an FTP Client, because there is a Server and a Client. So you might as well get yourself a real FTP client. But the odds are you will hit the limits of that tool within the first 5 minutes of you trying to use it. Your web hosting account may come with an FTP tool that runs in a web browser window. More specifically (or as an example), we’ll show you how to upload all the folders & files making up the b2evolution CMS package onto your web server. This page tells you what you need to know to upload files to your web server and mange them using FTP, which stands for File Transfer Protocol, in case you wonder.

Yummy ftp pro guide