Getting Cyberduck and an FTP Connection Set Up to Upload Your Website

Hey everyone! In this article you can follow methis, you will see a textbar named "Server". Fill this in
through the steps required to downloadwith the IP address of your website; the IP address
Cyberduck(only for mac), and set-up an FTPof your website can be found in the "welcome email"
connection so that you can drag and drop yourfrom your web host. The next two text bars should
websites files to your online public_html folder.be filled in with the username and password for your
Something I should note for you here: this tutorial willwebsite host. These will be found in the same
not only be for mac user's. Just because Cyberduck"welcome email" that your website's IP address was
is for Mac computer's only ;) this does not mean youfound.
couldn't apply the information found in this tutorial toIf all goes well you should be looking at a list of
the many other FTP clients out there, and there arefolder's that includes your home directory: it should
quite a lot of them. Before we get started I will belook something like this:
assuming that you already have the domain name,"access-logs" - size - modified
and hosting account(Including welcome email from"etc" - size - modified
hosting account) ready for your website. Personally I"mail" - size - modified
use for my hosting, and for my domain name's."public_ftp" - size - modified
The first thing we need to get started is a copy of"public_html" - size - modified
Cyberduck:"tmp" - size - modified
You can Download Cyberduck for Free at:"www" - size - modified
cyberduck.ch/Note: the "public_html" folder, it is the root of your
Once on their homepage look to the top right areawebsite where you will upload files to. For Example: if
of the page and click on the "Cyberduck-3.x.dmg" linkyou drag and drop your websites index.html(or
to start the download. After you have finishedhome.html, etc) page here, your websites URL will
downloading the .dmg file, follow the instructions tolook something like "mydomain.com/index.html". If you
install the software on your computer.have all of your websites pages in one main folder on
After finishing the installation, open the program andyour mac, open this folder and upload all of its
select the top left button: "Open Connection". Now,contents into "public_html". There you have it, your
make sure that "FTP" is selected from the topwebsite that you've poured so much time and effort
dropdown bar, and that the port listed is 21. Belowinto: it is, finally, online.