Posting Personal Web Pages on AlaNet

Step 7

Now that we are in the correct directories for both the local computer (your computer) and the AlaNet server (the web site host computer), we are ready to transfer the files of our web site to the server.

To transfer a file to your web site, you need to use the put command. The general syntax for the put command is: put source-filename destination-filename. For example, our first page is named index.htm but we want it to be uploaded as index.html so we type:
put index.htm index.html

Using the put command to upload a file.

For each file you have in your web site you will need to use the put command. Optionally, you can use help to find out how to use the mput command to upload more than one file at a time.

After uploading each file you need for your web site, you can issue another dir command while in your public_html directory to show a list of files you just uploaded.

Your main or first page must be named index.html on the server. This is why you must specify the destination-filename in the put command, otherwise you would need to use the rename command to change the name from index.htm to index.html

Last Updated: Thursday, March 25, 1999