Beginner : How to Upload to Your FTP Account

For this tutorial you will need to use an uploading software, we will use Cute FTP Pro. (The same process applies when you use a different FTP program)

How to access your FTP account using Cute FTP Pro

  1. Open Cute FTP Pro
  2. Enter:
    1. Host ( FTP.xxxxxxxxx.com , 000.000.000 , xxx.xxxxxxxx.xxx )
    2. Username
    3. Password
    4. Port ( usually it's 21, unless otherwise instructed )
  3. Press the connect button
  4. The website files will appear in the window

To upload files to the FTP account

Drag and drop the files in the FTP window where it needs to be located.

NOTE: When doing a redirection, the index.html needs to always be located in the website root.
The root is the first directory of the FTP ( address bar will show: / ).

Case 1 : You want to upload a page with just text

  1. Select the page
  2. Click and hold it with your mouse
  3. Drag and drop it in the window
  4. This is called "Drag and drop"

Case 2 : You want to upload a page (eg. casino.html) with text and images

  1. 'Drag and drop' the page in the window
  2. Since the page contains images, you need to host these images on the ftp server as well.
    ('Drag and drop' the image). To make your website structure look clean we always create a folder images.

    NOTE: The image folder creation needs to be done in your web-editor because the links will be broken if you don't, and the page will not show the image.

Case 3 : If the images are not uploaded in their original place, the images won't appear online
( You'll see a box with an 'X' instead of the image )

  1. Open the casino.html page in internet explorer
    (Double click on it, the file needs to be on your computer)
  2. Right click on the image and select properties
  3. A popup appears
  4. Go read the address
  5. Copy the name of the image ( Ctrl+C ) or remember it
    ( the address shows in which folder the image needs to be located )
  6. Press Cancel
  7. Place the missing image in the right folder on the FTP server

Example Scenario:

  1. You right-click on the image and the address is http://www.domainname.com/en/images/jointhewinners.gif
  2. In that case, the image needs to be located in the folder 'images' which will be located in the folder 'en'. 'en' is located in the root structure. (address bar will show: / )

    Solution - What you need to do:

    1. Connect to the ftp through Cute FTP Pro
    2. Click on the 'en' folder, ( address bar will show: /en )
    3. Then click on the 'images' folder. ( Address bar will show: en/images )
    4. You need to 'Drag and Drop' the image 'jointhewinners.gif' there