I’ve been posting lots of questions on this forum. I’m always confronted with “post a sample”. Response, how do you do that?
Today I wanted to explore this since it should be done anyway. So, went to my site hosting company (network Solutions) Gathered all the info I think I need (not sure of that either) and then Downloaded CyberDuck. Seemed to be the one most people suggested.
Open CyberDuck and gezz…what the heck am I looking at. There certainly is nothing intuitive about it. I’m presented with 5 choice none of which look like anything i know what to do with. So my hope is someone (Dave or Walt) will come forward and be able to walk me through this in plain english.
Here is what I would try.
Within your hosting account at Networksolutions you should be able to create a folder…find your current website files, and then look for a tool that allows you to create a new folder…call this “test” (no quotes)
Then back in Freeway, select File then Upload. A box should appear where you can enter your domain’s hosting info. Be sure in the file path section to include /test. Some hosts require your file path to be public_html, some you are not required to specify a file path…either way be sure to enter /test, if you don’t your Freeway site will overwrite your existing site. So your file path here might look like this, “public_html/test” or simply “/test” (again no quotes)
If you do it correctly and Freeway doesn’t give you errors you should then be able to enter your domain name with the /test path and look at your freeway site…ie. www.mydomain.com/test/index.html
including a few images to illustrate. Cyberduck is nothing else than your “finder” that you used to know exactly. The differnce are just the file endings (.html …).
I truly wish I could explain how foreign this is. You can describe cyberduck as a finder. That’s great but when I click it open I’m looking at 5 choices ( I think) Amazon is one. What do I do next. On the images you showed me where is that dialog box? I’ve searched and searched and can not find a port number. When you understand something and have done it many times, of course it’s simple. For now I need simple steps to take to get to where I going.
If you are just trying to get some freeway files up on your site…I would just forget all about Cyberduck, there is no need for an additional FTP program (Cyberduck).
Rich. If you seen the first part of this post, I posted a number of question and inevitably, I’m asked for a link to the page I’m having question on. It was suggested, and it makes sense, to put a test folder inside my current site. Then I could supply a link to the page in question and get the help I need…
Some more history, I’ve had a site for quite some years created in FrontPage. I’m now on a Mac and really need to upgrade my site. Point is, Frontpage is very automatic, in that you make changes and zippo, your sight is updated.
Back to the point at hand. Today I have gathered all the info I could find regarding where my sight is located, server, user namr, password all that. The only thing I found no mention of was a " port". It appeared to me that my current sight is in a folder called htdocs. Hopefully I correct here but I created a folder inside that folder called freeway. Does that sound correct?
Looking at Cyperduck it seems those options are there as default just in case your looking for something like that - probably partnered somewhat.
I would look to the bottom and click the +
then you should have a new empty account to set up.
Frank H.
On Aug 31, 2011, at 2:56 PM, Roger Malinowski wrote:
Rich. If you seen the first part of this post, I posted a number of question and inevitably, I’m asked for a link to the page I’m having question on. It was suggested, and it makes sense, to put a test folder inside my current site. Then I could supply a link to the page in question and get the help I need…
Some more history, I’ve had a site for quite some years created in FrontPage. I’m now on a Mac and really need to upgrade my site. Point is, Frontpage is very automatic, in that you make changes and zippo, your sight is updated.
Back to the point at hand. Today I have gathered all the info I could find regarding where my sight is located, server, user namr, password all that. The only thing I found no mention of was a " port". It appeared to me that my current sight is in a folder called htdocs. Hopefully I correct here but I created a folder inside that folder called freeway. Does that sound correct?
What Rich is talking about is when you get the correct info for your site location / password you will see the folder - probably public_html - and inside it looks very much like your mac hard drive when viewed in the finder. It is a finder for the files on the server.
The other side of the window in transmit IS the mac harddrive. With Transmit I can grab drag and drop files from my HD in the transmit finder part of the window to the public_html folder (drop on empty space while folder is open if you want) in the server finder part of the window. After they/it/folder(s) copy you can control click and get the url. That pasted into a browser window will open those files.
Provided that you indeed have created the folder ‘freeway’ on your server when you upload all your FW generated HTML files and Resources will be uploaded into the ‘freeway’ folder on your server.
DeltaDave, well I finally got it done, my site online (inside my current site). I owe a lot to you for your help. Thanks! Anyway, it all seems to be working so far, BTW, Network solutions has a very easy to understand FTP client on their site. As a customer, I merely need to log into my account and it automatically connects to my site location. Then I just selected my Freeway folder and, upload…Done
I’d appreciate if you’d take a look and let me know what you think www.stoneycreekdesigns.com/freeway