FTP uploads Forums

geraldandannie · Moderator

I'm frequently having problems uploading websites via FTP from home. At work, no problem.

I've spoken to the web geek at our place, who says that Tiscali are one of the worst because they have so many hops between servers and portals and God-knows-what to get to my host. Other ISPs are better. During a small-ish website, I'll have to manually upload about 5-6 files, because they wouldn't go through automatically. I've used a number of FTP programs - FileZilla, WS-FTP, SmartFTP, Core FTP Lite, and they all are the same.

Any ideas? Any similar problems?

Gerald

JockandRita

Hi Gerald,

For the technically uninformed, (like us Confused

), what is FTP, and what does it do?

J & R

sallytrafic · Southern Rally Co-ordinator

klubnomad

Morning J&R

Short for File Transfer Protocol, the protocol for exchanging files over the Internet. FTP works in the same way as HTTP for transferring Web pages from a server to a user's browser and SMTP for transferring electronic mail across the Internet in that, like these technologies, FTP uses the Internet's TCP/IP protocols to enable data transfer.

FTP is most commonly used to download a file from a server using the Internet or to upload a file to a server (e.g., uploading a Web page file to a server).

Dave

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JockandRita

peedee

I use WS_FTP and have similar problems. I have put it down to the differences in host whatever they maybe. My own host is dead slow, it didn't used to be. I have complained without getting any feedback, fortunately I don't have many large files to update/add. I also administer another site and that is greese lightning from the same location on a different host. It hardly seems to be a host problem in your case if its fine from another location. Are you sure it is not your home upload speed?

peedee

JockandRita

baldlygo

Gerald,
I've gone back to using the old dos FTP for odd files that get updated very frequently.

On my PC have a special ftp folder for two of my websites which keeps the bat files together.
In that folder I have a shortcut which displays the present online page in the browser (just to check what's there), a bat file which when clicked 'get's the file from the web and a 'put' bat file which uploads the edited new file.

Sounds a bit complicated but it isn't.
Double-click the get file.
Edit or replace with new web page.
Double-click the put file.
Click the veiwing shortcut to check its up ok.

As easy as that - of course each file is hard coded into my bat files so this would not be suitable for dealing with lots of files that hardly ever need updating. It can easily be adapted to deal with multiple files in the same operation.

Here is the coding of my Win98 get file - to turn it to a put file just change get to put and create the seperate file. The cd targetfolder bit is only necessary if your online web file is not in the online root directory. There is a slight difference for W2K but I think it is the same for XP. I started this method when I went away on holiday and needed to get a friend to update one file after a certain date - I just handed him a floppy with the new file on and told him which 'put' file to click.