· Remember what the Internet
is? It has three parts? Whatever files you create,
has to be stored into the server in order for others
to be able to pull it out with their software program such as
Netscape.
· Read about the AFS
space at MSU. This is your personal web server space that MSU has allotted
to you as a student.
Steps
for Transferring Files from home into your AFS space on campus: (If
you don't have WS-FTP,
you can download it for free.)
Step 1: Opening the WS-FTP window:
Double click on
the WS-FTP icon
When the window appears, type in the file path and your user name and password
(see picture below)
Step 2: Transferring files (you can see a movie of this: right click on this link and save it to your computer, open it in a media player such as REAL)
After you have entered
all your information (similar to above example) and password, click "OK."
When the Pilot server appears,
Click the two dots on the top on your side of the files (left window) to
work your way to the folder that you need
On the Pilot server window (right window) scroll down to the "web"
folder and double click to open it.
Click the file (in the left window) that you want to place in the server.
Click the arrow pointing to the right window
The file should be sent there.
Step 3:
Checking your work in the browser
Close out the WSFTP
Open either Internet Explorer or Netscape
Type in the URL to make sure everything went through ok.
Your URL is the URL to MSU homepage, plus ~yourusername
So, for my URL, it reads:
http://www.msu.edu/~drdokter