Filezilla Ftp: Tool to Upload File From Your Computer to Server

February 21st, 2010 |

Author: admin

What is Filezilla?

It is a freeware and open ftp program that you can download for personal use for free from FileZilla’s homepage at SourceForgeNet. They have both client and server available. You will need the client one if you want it for personal use. The latest version is – FileZilla Client 3.3.2 (released 02-14-2010).

You need it to upload your files to server.

After downloading the Filezila, you need an FTP address of your site plus login name and password for it to connect to your server. You do not need to fill out the port information because it is default port 21. All of it should be in the email you got from web hosting company such as Hostgator after registering the hosting account. After you fill all of information, then click “Quickconnect” button.

To save time, you can setup “Site Manager” so that you do not need to enter your info every time you want to upload your file to server. To do that you click “File” on your upper left corner, then select “my site” and go to “New” and fill out all information. Next time you want to connect, just click file then click connect. It is quick and easy to setup.

Watch the YouTube video on how to download the Filezilla file and uploading your files.

Once you are successful log in, you can navigate to your home directory and see all of your files and folders you have in your computer and you can locate all of your directories, files, and folders under your server. The left side portion is everything you have in your local computer, and on the right side is what you have in your server.

Two ways to upload your file

You can either drag and drop your file to where you want to upload it or you can right click the file you want to upload and click upload.

Disconnecting

After you’ve finished uploading stuff, select “File” on your upper left hand and click, “Exit” to disconnect from your Web server. Or simply click the cross sign at the upper right hand corner to close down FileZilla.

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