- PC with Windows 95/98 connecting through a standard ISP without Netscape
- Follow these steps
Note: Unless otherwise noted, when told to type a command, never include the quotes that surround the command in what you type.
- Connect to the Internet through your ISP. If you are viewing a printed or saved copy of this document, verify that you are connected by accessing our homepage at http://netmar.com/. Then press your browser's BACK button.
- Select Start->Run (press the Start button and click on "Run...")
- In the "Run" box, type
"ftp login.netmar.com"
and press ENTER or click on the OK button.
- When prompted, enter your 3-8 character Netmar username and press ENTER. Please note that this is ONLY a 3 to 8 character single word in all lowercase letters with no spaces. You selected it when your ordered your account. It is indicated at the top right-hand corner of any of your invoices and is also shown in the introductory email you were sent when your account was first setup.
- When prompted for your password, enter a dash character, followed by your Netmar password. Your password will not appear when entered, so type carefully! Do not enter any spaces anywhere on the password line, just a dash and the password. If your password were "apple," you would enter
"-apple"
. Press ENTER.
- At the next "ftp>" prompt type
"cd www"
and press ENTER.
- At the next "ftp>" prompt type
"lcd DIRNAME"
replacing DIRNAME with the location on your computer where your webpages are housed. If your webpages were located in C:\data\website
, you would type, "lcd c:\data\website"
at the prompt. Press ENTER.
- If the next file you are going to upload is an HTML (webpage) or plain text file, type
"asc"
and press ENTER. Otherwise, type "bin"
and press ENTER.
- Note: You can use the "ldir" command to list the files in the current directory on your computer.
- Type
"put FILENAME"
replacing FILENAME with the name of the file you want to upload and press ENTER.
OR
Type "prompt"
and press ENTER and then type "mput *.html *.htm"
to upload all of your HTML files at once.
OR
Type "prompt"
and press ENTER and then type "mput *.gif *.jpg"
to upload all of your image files at once.
- If you have subdirectories (sub-folders) on your website, type
"lcd FOLDER "
(where FOLDER is the name of the folder) followed by "mkdir FOLDER "
and ENTER then "cd FOLDER "
and ENTER. Then repeat steps 8 and 9 for all of the files in that directory.
- Repeat steps 8-10 until all of your files are uploaded.