Humanities Computing @ Wesleyan:Humanities Computing @ Wesleyan: FTP on the Mac Using Fetch
This document is written to help people trying to transfer files from their local machines to the world wide web server. It assumes that you have properly set up your web space, that you have created valid html documents, stored the image files in their proper formats. Help for these topics can be found at: http://www.wesleyan.edu/humanities/docs/web.html and http://www.wesleyan.edu/CFA/tutorial/tutorialintro.html
How to Use Fetch to FTP documents
1) store the documents you wish to transfer in the same directory
structure as where you wish to place them. This will make the moving of files less confusing, and will create a backup of your files on your local hard disk should the files on the web server become disorganized or accidentally misplaced.
2) connect to web server
3) change directory to directory where you wish to transfer the files
4) either drag and drop or use "put file" to transfer
Notes:
1) make sure web space has right permissions to be world readable
2) transfer text files (.html) as text
3) transfer graphic files (.jpg, .gif) as "raw data"
You can set this up as the default using the "preferences" item. You can
also instruct Fetch not to add the .txt extension by default.
4) you can use fetch to create directories, rename files, delete files,
delete directories, and (untested) set permissions for your web space.
Posted:10/11/96
Last Updated: /96
This document is located at: http://www.wesleyan.edu/humanities/docs/fetch.html