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LEARNING FILEZILLA

IN 5 MINUTES

(version 2.2.4.f)

Author: Vincent Meunier Original Title: Maîtriser FileZilla en 5 minutes (version 2.1.9a) Original Document: http://www.framasoft.net/article1941.html Translator: Christian Houlez

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Summary

Activating FileZilla and setting it in French (or another language)	4

Understanding of FileZilla's interface	5

How to create a shortcut and connect to an FTP server	6

How to upload a file to an FTP server	7

How to download a file on an FTP server	8

Activating FileZilla and setting it in French (or another language)

	Decompress the archive containing FileZilla (with 7-zip, for example)

Afer decompressing the file, double click on FileZilla.exe.	

	In the Edit menu, select Settings

In Interface Settings, choose Language Select French (or another language), from the list on the right	

Understanding of FileZilla's interface

Communication between FileZilla (Commands) and the FTP server (Responses)
This part corresponds to the Hardrive on your computer	This is the free space on your host server
N.B. The icon		allows you to go up through the folder hierarchy.

How to create a shortcut and connect to an FTP server

	In the File menu, choose Site Manager

In the next window, click on New Site (bottom left)

Let's look at a connection to the FTP server of Free (French):

Enter the FTP server address here (for Free: ftperso.free.fr)	Default FTP Port
Give a name to your connection (Ex. Free)		If you need authentification to the server, choose Normal If the authentification is Normal, enter the user name and password, given by your host, in the corresponding fields..
To validate the connection, click on Save and Exit.

In order to make a connection to the FTP server, click on the arrow on the right side of the icon the toolbar, and choose a connection name.	

How to upload a file to an FTP server

After connecting to the FTP server, select in the Local Site, one or more files (by pressing the Ctrl key) that you wish to transfer, then drag and drop the file(s) into the Remote Site.

N.B. As on your computer, you can create directories on the server in order to organise your files. To create directories, just right click in the Remote Site and select Create Directory. The file(s) will be add to this directory.

A progress bar will appear at the bottom of the window.

	When the file transfer is complete, you will see it in the Remote Site.

How to download a file on an FTP server

It is possible to download some files on the FTP server which do not need authentification. This kind of connection is called "Anonymous" to use it, you must enter Anonymous as a user name. (if the user name field is empty, Anonymous is set by default)

It is possible, for example, to download the email client Thunderbird 0.5 in English on the mozilla.org FTP server.

We will use the Quickconnect bar, but there are, of course, other methods.

In the Quickconnect bar, write the address of the mozilla.org FTP server (ftp.mozilla.org) in Address, then click on Quickconnect.

	Look for the file thunderbird-0.5-win32.zip while navigating in Remote Site (pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/release/0.5) Right click on the file and choose Download.

The downloading progress bar appears at the bottom of the window.

N.B. The file is automatically downloaded into the Local Site.

Licence GNU/FLD	p. 6

Learning FileZilla in 5 minutes

Tutoriel Framasoft

FTP Client

Titre original :
THE client FTP libre sous Windows expliqué aux enfants
Auteur :
Vincent Meunier
Traducteur :
Christian Houlez
Version :
2.1.9a pour le document en français, 2.2.4f pour l'anglais

Christian Houlez

2004-03-08T19:02:00