Getting Started
With UNIX FTP

Welcome To JTL Networks! You have just made a terrific choice in a web presence provider! The following steps will get you started publishing your web site on one of our high-powered Red Hat Linux web servers.

1.) Download an FTP Program. We strongly recommend Cute/FTP or WS/FTP. In this demonstration we'll use IPSwitches WS_FTP program.

2.) Got your FTP program? Great, now open it up. If you are using WS/FTP you will see a sessions property window (users of CuteFTP will be asked for the same information just in different places in the program...sorry you will need to find this yourself).
Below is what you are asked for and what you need to enter:
A.) Profile Name: Optional...anything from web site to Bob Smith :)
B.) Host Name / Address: Enter your address or IP here. For example "coruscant.org" or "216.123.123.123" (without the quotes, of course.)
C.) Host Type: Leave it on auto detect.
D.) UserID: This has been sent to you in your welcome e-mail. In case your forgot it is usually the first 8 letters of your domain name
E.) Password: This has also been sent in your welcome letter. Please be aware that the password is case sensitive.

3.) Got it all filled out? Great, click on connect and boom away you go! It should log you into a blank directory. At the top of the right screen under "Remote Session" you should the path to your site (example /web3/loginame/)

4.)
On the left are the files in your hard drive. Double Clicking one of those files will upload it into your web space. To start with browse to the folder on your hard drive that has your web site. (Clicking the arrow at the top of that screen will move you up a /dir - double clicking on a /dir will move you into that /dir.)

On your right you are now seeing your account. You will see a list of files and dirs. The ones in bold are the only ones you can actually interact with. The rest just leave be, as they are vital to the operation of your site.
.cgiinfo
.xfm
cgi-bin
public_ftp
public_html
.cpanel
.www
.bash_history
.bash_profile
.bash_logout
.ftpaccts
.Xdefaults
access_log
fileman.dat
filemanlog.txt
logo.tiff

If you are a first time UNIX user this may look confusing to you, but don't worry its not that bad! First question:

Where do I upload files that I want to be on the web? Either go into the public_html or .www dir (They both take you to the same place). Any files you upload here will be visible on the web.

(Thus, your /public_html is the actual root directory of your website on our linux servers)

The public_ftp dir is your own anonymous FTP account. This is what users see when they go to ftp://ftp.yourdomain.com.
The cgi-bin dir is where you should upload any cgi files such as perl scripts. This cgi-bin is access on the web at http://yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/.
the access_log is your access log. You can track visitors to your web site using this. Be warned it is only a text file (in many cases a large text file) and you will have to download a log analyzer to peer deep into it. We strongly recommend Web Trends. Don't worry we do have free of charge web log analyzers installed into your control panel.

5.) Found your files? Great, now highlight them and click the arrow pointing from the left to the right. The files should then begin transferring to your web space!

6.) Once you have uploaded your files browse to your web space such as http://www.coruscant.org or http://216.123.123.123. If you get a directory listing, then you need to check the files within your web space and make sure you have an "index.html" file. If you don't then create one! Our server also looks for the other docs:
index.html
index.htm
index.cgi
index.shtml
default.html
default.htm
index.php3

7.) Congrats..you have now published content to your web site!

Move On To Learn About Setting Up Your Account Features --->

(Please note the the JTL Networks Technical Staff will not support client side ftp configuration problems.)