Hey everyone! In this article you can follow me through the steps required to download Cyberduck(only for mac), and set-up an FTP connection so that you can drag and drop your websites files to your online public_html folder. Something I should note for you here: this tutorial will not only be for mac user's. Just because Cyberduck is for Mac computer's only;) this does not mean you couldn't apply the information found in this tutorial to the many other FTP clients out there, and there are quite a lot of them. Before we get started I will be assuming that you already have the domain name, and hosting account(Including welcome email from hosting account) ready for your website. Personally I use Hostgator.com for my hosting, and GoDaddy.com for my domain names.
The first thing we need to get started is a copy of Cyberduck:
You can Download Cyberduck for Free at: cyberduck.ch/
Once on their homepage look to the top right area of the page and click on the "Cyberduck-3.x.dmg" link to start the download. After you have finished downloading the.dmg file, follow the instructions to install the software on your computer.
After finishing the installation, open the program and select the top left button: "Open Connection". Now, make sure that "FTP" is selected from the top dropdown bar, and that the port listed is 21. Below this, you will see a textbar named "Server". Fill this in with the IP address of your website; the IP address of your website can be found in the "welcome email" from your web host. The next two text bars should be filled in with the username and password for your website host. These will be found in the same "welcome email" that your website's IP address was found.
If all goes well you should be looking at a list of folder's that includes your home directory: it should look something like this:
"access-logs" - size - modified
"etc" - size - modified
"mail" - size - modified
"public_ftp" - size - modified
"public_html" - size - modified
"tmp" - size - modified
"www" - size - modified
Note: the "public_html" folder, it is the root of your website where you will upload files to. For Example: if you drag and drop your websites index.html(or home.html, etc) page here, your websites URL will look something like "mydomain.com/index.html". If you have all of your websites pages in one main folder on your mac, open this folder and upload all of its contents into "public_html". There you have it, your website that you've poured so much time and effort into: it is, finally, online.
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