This page is a step by step procedure for FTPing a file from your disk to the OSEDA computer so that it can be included in your school district's web pages. This will only work for school districts that have accounts at OSEDA.

• The text in bold represent text on the computer screen, and text in "quotations" represent text that you type. Do not type the quotations.

• Follow the steps below exactly as they are written. There are 9 steps.

1. Save the file you want to FTP or move to the OSEDA computer, so that people can see it from a Web Browser, on a disk or on your hard-drive. If it is text, it needs to be saved as an ascii or text file with the extension, the part of the file name after the period, ".htm" or ".html".

2. Click on the FTP icon so that your computer will open the FTP software. Two windows will appear. The bottom one will be titled WS_FTP, the top one will be titled Session Profile. First focus on the Session Profile window.

3. In the space provided next to Host Name, type "schoolweb.missouri.edu". Then move the cursor to the space next to User ID, and type in the login that you were given in class. Then move the cursor to the space next to Password, and type in your password. Do not use the password that we gave you in class, but the password that you changed it to. When you have filled in these spaces, click on the Ok button.

   • There is a grey box across the bottom of the window that says WS_FTP. If you did something wrong, like mis-typing your password, the long grey box will read logon failure, so quiting. If this is the case, then click on the button at the lower left hand corner of the screen that reads Connect, and return to the beginning of step 3.

   • If the box says something other than logon failure, so quitting then everything is O.K., and the button at the lower left hand corner of the WS_FTP window will read Close.

4. You should now be looking at another window that is split into two sections: Local System on the left side and Remote System on the right side. The computer that you are working at is the Local System. The OSEDA computer is the Remote System. On the Local System side, click on the ChgDir button on the top part of the screen. You will now be prompted to type in the local directory name. If your files are on a disk type the letter of the drive that the disk is in followed by a colon ie. "a:" or "b:". If the files are on your hard-drive type in "c:". You should then be able to see your files in the bottom half of the "Local System" side of the screen.

5. On the Remote System find your school district's directory that you want to FTP to, or put the information in and double-click it. You are now in your space on our server.

6. You should be able to see files that have already been put on our machine in the lower half of the Remote System box.

7. Now click on or highlight the files in the lower half of the Local System box that you want to FTP or move to the OSEDA machine. You may select more than one file to FTP. You should not send graphic files, files that end in ".gif" or ".jpg", with html code files, files that end in ".htm" or ".html".

   There are three words with circles next to them below the System boxes, but above the long grey box. The words are ASCII, Binary, and L8. If you are sending graphic files, files that end in ".gif" or ".jpg", then click on Binary so that there is a dot in the middle of the circle next to the word Binary. If you are FTPing HTML code files, files that end in ".htm" or ".html", then click on the circle next to the word ASCII.

   NOTE: Any time you copy a file to the Remote System side it will automatically write over your old file.

   Once the files that you desire to FTP have been selected, click on the arrow between the Local System and Remote System boxes that points to the right or from the Local System to the Remote System. After a few moments, the files should appear in the lower half of the Remote System box indicating that the FTP was successful.

   • If you do not see the files listed in the lower half of the Remote System box, then click on the button on the Remote System side that says Refresh.

8. In order to rename a file in FTP do the following:

   1. Select the file in the lower half of the Local System box that you wish to rename. You may only rename one file at a time.

   2. Click on the button in the Local System box that says Rename.

   3. You will now be prompted for the new name of the file. Type it in making sure that you keep the extension, the part of the file name after the period, the same: ".gif", ".jpg", ".htm", etc. the same.

   4. Click on the button that reads Ok or hit the return key on the keyboard.

9. If you FTPed your main home page, remember it needs to be named index.html. The procedure is nearly the same as the procedure described in step 8. The only differences are that the file to be renamed is in the lower half of the Remote System box, and the name will stay the same expect that the extension, the part of the file name after the period, should be changed from ".htm" to ".html".

You have now successfully FTPed.