Web Form Uploading

Uploading to the Server's Web Docs Directory
To upload the files in your Web site, you will use Netscape or Internet Explorer. Note that the form that we are discussing here requires at least version 4 of either of these browsers. There are two easy steps to this:

Logging In to the Upload Page
First, go to the Login Page for the uploader, shown to the right. This prompts for a username and a password. These will have been given to you by your friendly system administrator. Enter them, and then press the "login" button. No, really.

Using the Uploader
Once you've logged in, you'll see a screen something like that shown below. Note the different parts of the screen.

1. At the top of the screen, it tells us that we logged in as user "test" on the server "howard." It also appears that "test"'s real name is "Test User."
2. At the left of the screen we see a map of "test"'s Web site. The directory at the top ("top-level dir") is equivalent to the Web site top level directory of the local site. Thus we want to upload into the directories below "top-level dir" the files that we have below the "website" directory on our home directory where the local site is located.
3. On the right of the screen there are four sections:
   1. File Upload: to upload a file from your local site to the Web server.
   2. Remove File or Directory: to delete files or directories from your site on the Web server. Note: if you delete a directory, all of the files (and directories!) under it will be deleted as well. To delete a directory, use the "From Directory" selector to pick the directory in which it is a subdirectory, and then the "Remove" selector to select the directory to remove.
   3. Rename File or Directory: to move a file or directory from one place in your site to another.
   4. Make Directory: to create a new directory in your site on the Web server.

Other Important Notes

1. The execute controls button at the top right of the page is the same as the buttons Upload, Remove, Rename, and Make -- each executes all of the commands on the form, not just one.
2. Netscape may give you trouble if you try and resize the browser window after loading the page. If this is the case, go back and re-log in.
3. Netscape also appears to have a bug in the way that it displays the "file upload" form element, and puts a large amount of extra space to the right of the element. This makes the right part of the screen larger than it needs to be.
4. You can resize the frames of the upload form. Position the mouse over the border between the frames until it gives a resize icon (this is harder to do with Netscape), click and move.