Secure FTP
(M: drive and Web Publishing)
Major Web Publishing Change!
Beginning December 19, 2007, all personal web site accounts will be moved into a folder called M:\public_html (located in their personal M: drive space). Accessing your web pages remains the same (svsu.edu/~username); the instructions for publishing developed pages changes (see below for various methods).
Note: If you need assistance/training: Students may visit the Student Technology Center, Faculty/Staff may visit the ITD Lab.
Secure FTP Options (for Web Publishing and M: access)
CoreFTP (remote site/file management software for Windows computers)
- CoreFTP is an excellent SFTP client, providing secure encrypted connections and easy file management. Whether publishing web pages or managing files on your M:, this client provides users the ability to transfer multiple files (drag and drop) and features rename/copy/delete functions. Download it here. Follow the instructions posted here.
Fugu
- Fugu is a graphical frontend for the text-based Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) client that ships with Mac OS X. Fugu provides a friendly, intuitive interface, featuring drag-and-drop file transfers, remote file editing and remote file preview. Download it here.
Dreamweaver Studio 8 and MX 2004
- Dreamweaver is configurable to support secure ftp. Follow the instructions posted here.
FrontPage 2003
- FrontPage is configurable to support WebDav. You will need have the latest Office Updates installed for this to work properly. Follow the instructions posted here.
Frontpage 2000 & Dreamweaver MX (and older versions)
- Users will need to make use of a separate utility, like CoreFTP (a secure ftp client). You will create your pages and save them to your local hard drive, and then use CoreFTP to select the files and folders to publish them to your web space.
Kompozer
- Kompozer is a free software program for editting and creating websites. Instructions on installation and publishing can be found here. We recommend for off-campus users to use CoreFTP for publishing their webpages.
Alternate Web Publishing packages
- Each package has its own instructions and options for web publishing. ITS cannot determine all possible configurations for all the various packages. Ultimately, you want to ensure that your package can support secure ftp. If it cannot, or if you are not able to figure it out - we still recommend the use of CoreFTP (as mentioned above).
NetDrive
- Another option is to utilize NetDrive (a SFTP client that allows you to map a drive letter on your home computer - making it look like you're on campus publishing to your M:\ drive.. Allows drag and drop and multiple file transfers to your M: (secured). NetDrive is not compatible with Vista. Download it here.