First created: Sunday 11th January
2009, 9:19 PT by AHD
Last updated: Sunday 11th January
2009,15:47 PT by AHD
FileZilla - How to Install and Run on Windows
Introduction
This page
explains how to install and run the FileZilla software - on a Windows computer
- to transfer files to a remote (Linux Apache) web server...
1. Install FileZilla
Go to the FileZilla download page:
http://filezilla-project.org/download.php
Click on the recommended file for Windows shown in the screen above.
Once the FileZilla_3_2_0_win32-setup.exe file has downloaded,
locate the file - (Windows usually downloads to the
desktop
unless you specify otherwise) and double click on the file name
to start the installation process...
Click on the "Run" button....
Click on the "I Agree" button...
Click on the "Next >" button...
If you want a FileZilla shortcut icon to be placed on your desktop,
select it, as shown above, then click on the "Next >" button...
Click on the "Next
>" button to accept the default folder for installation.
Click on the "Install" button to accept the default Start Menu
folder for installation.
The software will take a few moments to install,
then you will see the following screen....
Click on the "Finish" button, then click on the "OK"
button on the Welcome screen.
You will then see the following screen, which is FileZilla's start
screen....
FileZilla is now correctly installed on your computer...
The next section explains how to save a new site account on FileZilla,
so that you don't need to type in the same details every time you use
FileZilla
to transfer your files to the web server.
2. Set up a New Site on FileZilla
If FileZilla isn't already running,
Start up FileZilla from the desktop Start button:
Start -> All Programs -> FileZilla FTP Client
-> FileZilla
In the top left hand corner of the start screen, click on the File Menu:
File -> Site Manager
You will then see this screen...
Click on the "New Site" button...
New Site text box (highlighted in the screen above),
type in a name for your new site. If you have been given a
username (student1, student2 etc) and password by your instructor,
I suggest you use the username as a label for your new site...
For illustration purposes, the following assumes the username student2
Enter the other details for this new site, as shown in the following
screen:
Make sure you enter the correct Host IP address as supplied by your
instructor,
then click on the "OK" button, to save your new details and
close this window.
2. Connecting to a remote site using FileZilla
In the top left hand corner of the start screen, click on the File Menu:
File -> Site Manager
You will then see this screen...
With the student2 site selected -
as shown in the screen above,
click on the "Connect" button...
Type in
your password then click on the "OK" button.
The Host IP address is supplied by your instructor, and is a trusted
site,
so just click on the "OK" button...
Then you will see the following screen....
When you successfully connect to the remote site,
you are automatically placed into your own folder on the remote site,
in this example:
/var/www/student2
3. Transfering files from your local computer to the remote site
Locate the file you want to transfer by clicking in the
"Local site:" part of the above screen...
then click on the filename and drag the file to the remote folder...
Notice you
are only allowed to write files to your own folder on the remote site,
and you
cannot navigate to any other folder on the remote site.