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Uploading To Your Virtual Server Using MacOS (Fetch Tutorial)

1. Using Fetch

When you start Fetch, you will be presented with a dialog box like the one below:

Fetch Startup Screen

  • Put beryl.sol.co.uk in the Host box
  • Enter your username in the User ID box.
  • Enter your password in the Password box.
  • Click OK.

2. Uploading Using Fetch

Once connected, the server will place you in your own directory. This is shown in the example below:

If you connect successfully, your will see something like this.

To upload files, click on the Put File button, a dialogue box like the one below will appear:

The Put File... Dialog Box
NB. The first file of your website should be titled index.htm

Select the file in the usual manner from your machine and click Open. The following box will appear:

Click on the Format box and change to Raw Data if the file to be transfered is a picture, or to Text if the file is an html document (as shown below).

NOTE: Your file names should not contain any spaces or meta characters such as

" ! £ $ % ^ & * ( ) + = @ ' ; : / ? > < , # | \ ` ¬ )

Uploading a GIF Image

Uploading an HTML Page

Once transfered, the file name will appear in the listing of files on the server as shown below:

An uploaded web page (Note: Your first file should be called index.htm)

 

3. Downloading Files Using Fetch

To take a file from the server and put it onto your machine, select it on the server listing and either drag it onto your destop, or click on the Get File (recommended way) to transfer it onto your machine. The following diaglogue box will appear, allowing you to save the file where you want.

The Get File... Dialog Box

4. Viewing Your Site & Further Assistance

If everything has been loaded correctly you should be able bring up your web site in your browser and view it on line (by typing in http://www.yourcompanyname.com/, for example.).

If you cannot get logged in, or have any other uploading related problems, please fill in the fault report form and we will investigate the problem and get back to you.

Please do not ask us to help you with your HTML, as we do not provide HTML support. If you need HTML support please look at the various sites on the Net, such as http://www.hwg.org/resources/.

Your comments or suggestions are welcome to make this tutorial better and more user friendly.
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