Publishing Personal and Public Pages
to the Web at CSU
Using WSFTP
Training Notes for Participants
Kelly Morrissey
David Bedwell
Heidi Norman
Owen Schofield
Division of Information Technology
March 2002 (Version 3)
Copyright  2001 Charles Sturt University
No part of this document may be reproduced, altered or sold without prior written
permission of the Executive Director, Division of Information Technology, Charles
Sturt University.
Publishing Personal & Public Pages to the Web Using
WSFTP
Table of Contents
OBJECTIVE OF THIS TRAINING MODULE ............................................................................. 3
PRE-REQUISITES FOR THIS TRAINING MODULE ............................................................... 3
INTRODUCING WSFTP.................................................................................................................. 3
CHECKS BEFORE UPLOADING .................................................................................................. 3
INDEX FILE........................................................................................................................................ 3
FILE SPACE AVAILABLE .................................................................................................................... 3
UPPERCASE AND LOWERCASE SENSITIVITY ...................................................................................... 3
UPLOADING FILES WITH WS_FTP............................................................................................ 4
OPEN WSFTP ................................................................................................................................... 4
Step-by-Step ................................................................................................................................. 4
Item (1) Personal ......................................................................................................................... 4
Item (2) Public ............................................................................................................................. 5
USING THE PUBLIC_HTML FOLDER........................................................................................ 7
MOVING YOUR WEB SITE FILES INTO PUBLIC_HTML ..................................................... 7
VIEWING YOUR NEW PERSONAL WEB SITE ........................................................................ 9
VIEWING YOUR NEW PUBLIC WEB SITE ............................................................................... 9
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Objective of this Training Module
At the end of this module, using WSFTP, you will publish a website to the CSU web server
so that the site you have developed can be viewed on the Internet
Pre-requisites for this Training Module
It’s assumed that you know how to write a web page or site and can confidently store files
uniformly in an identified web site folder.
Introducing WSFTP
WSFTP is a file transfer protocol tool. That means it’s a piece of software that you use to
transfer files to an Internet server. It’s a bit like a file management program except it can
be used to manage files from your PC or network to the Internet server
An Internet Server
Is a big computer that holds your website and other files. It is permanently connected to
the Internet so that anyone with access to the Internet can access these files or your
pages. When you ‘Publish’ you transfer your files and web pages to the Internet server
Checks Before Uploading
Index File
There should be one file created called:
index.htm
This is the file that the web server will look for first when someone wants to look at your
web page. Other files can have different names with the index files providing links to them.
File Space Available
The file space available per account is 15-20 MB. Check that the files you are uploading
are less than this.
Uppercase and Lowercase Sensitivity
Both servers csusap/online are very particular about uppercase and lowercase characters.
Make sure any links you have to other documents, files or images are in the same case as
the file name.
That is if you have a file called myphoto.jpg saved in your mywebsite folder, then the link
in your web page must be myphoto.jpg or it will not work.
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Uploading Files With WS_FTP
As files for your personal web site are saved to a different server than files belonging to
your Division/School or Department web site you will be required to enter information
appropriate to your activity. These different steps are defined as:


Use item (1) Personal if you are working on a Personal web site.
Use item (2) Public if you are working on a Public web site such as your school
web site.
Open WSFTP
When WS_ftp is started the Session Properties screen will appear. The box Session
Properties contains information about the server that you are connecting to.
Step-by-Step
Item (1) Personal
1.
If the information is different click new then enter the information in the
Session Properties box as above.
2.
Host Name/Address will be: csusap.csu.edu.au
3.
Enter your login id in the area User ID and your current Password then click
OK.
The Password window will appear:
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4.
Enter your password and click on OK.
Item (2) Public
1.
If the information is different click new then enter the information in the
Session Properties box as above.
2.
Host Name/Address will be: www.csu.edu.au
3.
Enter your User id in the area User ID and your current Password.
4.
Click on the Startup tab to get to the following screen.
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5.
Enter in your Department/Division/Faculty site using the format shown above.
For example always begin with /local/WWW/then if you are in a
/faculty/department or division/then enter your div/fac/dept name. ie
/local/WWW/faculty/educat/
6.
Click OK
The Password window will appear:
7.
Enter your password and click on OK.
HINT: If you do not know the name go to the web site and look in the address line and
copy it.
WS_ftp will then show a list of files in your home directory on the csusap or local
server. (as shown in diagram below)
1.
2.
On the left hand side (LHS) are the files on your own computer or network.
On the right hand side (RHS) are the web server folders into which you may
place your website files.
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Using the public_html folder
You should have a directory called public_html in the list on the RHS.
If not,
1.
2.
Click on the MkDir button and type public_html as the name then click OK.
Double click on the public_html folder. If you have previously published to the
server you will see a list of files in that directory. If there are none, (as seen in
diagram below), it means that the author of this document has no files or web
pages visible on the Internet.
Moving your web site files into public_html
Step-by-step
1.
Go to the LHS window. and locate the folder where you have saved your web
pages and images by dragging the scroll bar until you can see ‘P’ drive in the
window.
For CSU staff this folder may be called ‘mywebsite’ on your ‘P’ drive.
2.
Double click on ‘P’ drive, this will open the folder and all your files saved in
‘mywebsite’ will now be visible. See diagram below.
3.
You can check the folder by looking at the name shown in the top ‘local system’
box on the left hand side.
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To publish your ‘mywebsite’ files you need to transfer the files from the left to the
right.
4.
First ensure that you double clicked public.html on the right. This selects the
site that your web files will be loaded into.
5.
Then by highlighting all the files on the left with your mouse.
6.
Then click on the right arrow icon ().
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The files will then be transferred to the Internet Server and the window will look like
this
Remember everything on the RHS is available on the Internet
Viewing your new personal web site
1.
Ensure you are still connected to the Internet and open a web browser.
2.
Type in the address for your personal web page. This will be
http://csusap.csu.edu.au/~ with your user id after the ~ symbol.
For example if your id was jbloggs then the address for your personal web page
would be: http://csusap.csu.edu.au/~jbloggs
OR
Viewing your new public web site
1.
The address for your public web page will be http://www.csu.edu.au/ then the
name of the faculty or schools web page.
For example, if you were publishing public material to the Faculty of Education
the address would be: http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/educat/edu/
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