This page will help you set up the WSFTP (Windows 3.x & 95/98 ONLY) program. It will also provide a basic tutorial on how to transfer web pages to your personal area.

There are 3 requirements for using the WSFTP program:

You must be connected to the Internet. This is done by either dialup, direct connection or ISDN
You must have a working, unzipped copy of the WSFTP program. To obtain a copy, you may either:

Download an evaluation copy here: http://www.ipswitch.com/cgi/download_eval.pl?product=WS-0000

Once you have fulfilled these criteria, move on to the next steps in the setup process.

STEP 1: Activate the WSFTP Program. (Figure 1)

• Activate the WSFTP program by clicking on File/Run/Browse (Windows 3.x) or Start/Run/Browse (Windows 95) and then select the directory where you installed wsftp.exe (Windows 3.X) or wsftp32.exe (Windows 95) program and double click it and click OK. You should see a screen similar to the one on the left.
• If no other box pops up when you activate the WSFTP Program, click the button marked Connect (marked by the green arrow).

STEP 2: Set up your session profile. (Figure 2)

• Click the button named New (outlined in yellow)
• The fields marked by green arrows are fields which you must supply data for in this screen. All other fields are unimportant.
• The buttons outlined in blue, red and yellow are the only buttons which you will use during the setup and after.
• In the field named Profile Name, you will need to type a name for your profile that you can identify later. A name such as My Home Page will be sufficient.
• In the field named Host Name, you will need to type the name of the FTP host you are going to connect to. You can obtain this from the email you received when you requested your home page, it will be listed after FTP HOST:. It should be same as your provider's home page address.
• In the field named User ID, you will type the FTP USERNAME found in the email you received when your homepage was set up. This will usually be your LABridge login username.
• In the Password field, you will need to type the FTP PASSWORD found in the email you received when your homepage was set up.
• The Save Password box is the ONLY box which needs to be checked, if Anonymous Login or Auto Save Config are checked, uncheck them.

• The Local PC field is an actual location on your computer where you create and save your web pages before you send them to the server. For example, if you created and saved pages in C:\web\pages, you would type c:\web\pages in this field.
• Once you have typed the required data in the fields, click the button named Save (outlined in blue).
• Click the button named OK (outlined in red) to connect to the FTP server.

 STEP 3: Transfer your pages. (Figure 3).

• Once you have connected to the FTP server, you will see a graphic similar to the one below (without the colors, numbers or indicators).
• Notice the columns outlined in red and blue these correspond to:
  1. Your computer and
  2. The Remote FTP Server (your web page area on our computer).
• Notice the other numbered locations on the graphic, they correspond to:
  3. The directory location on your computer
  4. Buttons which control creation, deletion and movememt to directories on your computer (ChgDir - Change Directories, MkDir - Create Directory, RmDir - Delete Directory)
  5. Buttons which control creation, deletion and movememt to directories on the FTP server (ChgDir - Change Directories, MkDir - Create Directory, RmDir - Delete Directory)
  6. Transfer button to transfer files from the FTP server to your computer, Remote-to-Local.
  7. Transfer button to transfer files from your computer to the FTP server, Local-to-Remote.
  

• To transfer web pages from your computer to the FTP server (your web page area), you need to click on each file (in the Local Column in red, #1 in Figure 3) ONCE to highlight it and then click the Local-to-Remote arrow button (#8 in Figure 3)
• To transfer web pages from the FTP server to your computer, you need to click on each file (in the Remote Column, #2 on Figure 3) ONCE to highlight it and then click the Remote-to-Local arrow button (#7 in Figure 3)
• To delete files in your web area, click each file (in the Remote Column, #2 in Figure 3) ONCE and click the DELETE button on the Remote side.