- You can store files on the school computers while at school and
transfer them to your home computer when at home. And vice
versa.
- You can use any of the directories on your school computer to
store files, and be able to retrieve them any time.
- However, if you want to publish your webpages, your webpages
MUST be placed into your public_html directory at school, or into
any of its subdirectories that you might create.
- You will need to use a "File Transfer Program" on your home
computer to do the transfer.
- We recommend one of the following free programs:
WinSCP (only for
Windows) or CyberDuck (for
Windows, Mac or Linux). We don't recommend FileZilla because
of some reports of bloatware/malware attached to it by unscrupulous
sites.
- You do not use either of the programs above. You may use
any file tansfer mechanism that you have and know how to
use, or you may use "scp" if you know how, or use github as
intermediary storage, if you know about that.
- Nevertheless, the two programs above make transfers simple and
graphical.
- Here's a quick demo on how to
use CyberDuck.
- Here's how to use WinSCP.
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Filenames and URL (webpage address)
names:
Suppose that you have a file called
fred.html and it displays an image in the file harry.jpg.
Let's assume that both files are in the same directory on your computer,
and so your command to display the image inside fred.html is:
<img src="harry.jpg">
There's also a link to another webpage called hermione.html,
also in the same directory, and so there's the command in fred.html:
<a href="hermione.html">
(Make sure that you're not referring to any other directories in either
of those commands).
After uploading these 3 files (fred.html, harry.jpg, hermione.html),
you can now get into a browser and ask for:
homer.stuy.edu/~your-id/fred.html
or the full address:
http://homer.stuy.edu/~your-id/fred.html
Suppose I've created a subdirectory of public_html called
george
The full address would be:
/home/support/pbrooks/public_html/george
And if I put the file fred.html into that george
directory then its URL would be:
homer.stuy.edu/~pbrooks/george/fred.html
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