*NOTE: To upload files to a Colby department directory you must get permission to access the directory by filling out the Web Project request form. To upload files to your Colby PERSONAL Web directory you must first activate it.*

Getting WS_FTP: If you're using a Colby-owned Windows 2000 or XP in any Colby public lab, WS_FTP is installed. Go to Start | Programs | WS_FTP | WS_FTP95LE Begin with step #1 in the instructions below.

If you're using your own computer you may not have WS_FTP installed. Several programs can be downloaded from web sites and purchased for a small fee. Two that have been used by students are:

http://www.tucows.com/preview/195133.html SmartFTP 1.0

http://www.download.com/3000-2160-10018456.html WS_FTP Home 9.0

(please note: these are links outside Colby. ITS is not responsible for changes to external site. If you encounter a problem with it, please inform us by sending mail to the contact address at the bottom of this page and the urls will be removed.)

After downloading the software and installing it on your hard drive, launch the program and proceed to Step 2 of the directions.

*Before uploading your files, make sure you have them organized and stored in a folder and that you know the path to that folder- for example, if you store your Web files on your D drive in a folder called "My_Web_Files", your path would be:
D:\My_Web_Files

1.Open WS_FTP: Start/Programs/Accessories/WS_FTP

2."Session Properties" Window comes up. Info should read as follows:

 Profile Name: onyx.colby.edu
   Host name/address:colby0.colby.edu(that's a ZERO, not the letter O)
  Host type: UNIX/standard
  USER ID: your Colby email username (ie, jqpublic)
   Password: your Colby email password
  Account: blank
  Comment:blank

3.Click "OK"

4. Your local hard drive directory appears in the left side of the WS_FTP window, set to the WS_FTP program files folder. The directories you have access to on the Colby Web server appear on the right.

5.For your local directory, on the left side of the window, click the "ChgDir"(Change Directory) button; enter the path to your Web files.

6.To upload to your personal page directory: on the right side of the window, scroll down the list until you see the folder "public_html.: Double-click to open it. The path at the top will now be "web/pers/yourname", and you can upload your files here by following Step 8.

7.If you are uploading to a directory other than your personal page(such as a departmental page), scroll down the right side list until you see the name of that directory. Open it. Depending on where you wish to place your file, you might need to open some subfolders until you are where you want to be. This is dictated by the organizational structure of that department's page, therefore we can't give you more specific instructions.

You might need to create a directory- to do this, click the "MkDir" button. To remove a directory, select it and click the RmDir button. To delete a file, select it and click the Delete button. If you are ready to upload files, go to Step 8.

8.Upload files by selecting them from the list on the left side, then clicking the right-pointing arrow button in the middle of the window.

Extras: setting permissions and viewing invisible files:

PERMISSIONS/Error 403 :as of March 26, 2002, Colby's Web server checks newly uploaded files against user's permissions and releases those files for public viewing AUTOMATICALLY. There is no need to manually set file permissions- in fact,for security reasons our server does not allow any permissions overrides from within FTP applications. IF you upload a file and get a 403(permissions) error, notify Keith McGlauflin at x3417, kamcglau@colby.edu.

Viewing invisible files-

Some files, such as the .htaccess file used for password protection of a directory, become invisible, even to you, after you've uploaded them. To see these and all invisible files, enter -a in the white box directly under the MkDir button in the Ws_FTP main window; hit Enter key.