About
Hi! My name is Derek Dearden, and I have been running businesses from my home since 1981.
For most of that time, I’ve been developing software and designing computer systems.
My intention on this site is to give you all the information you need to set up your own website, whether it’s a personal one, a site to support some club or community, or to enhance a business venture. If you have any questions, send them to me, and I’ll do my best to get the answer up on this site for you.
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March 24, 2008
wa8ball @ 9:55 am:
Hi,
Your video is great. I have purchased “How to build a website” from GoDaddy.com but I am having trouble opening FileZilla as you described. In Sitemanager I have tried all ways to enter details in HOST: USER and PASSWORD I am not sure which info should go where as it is not very clear in your demo.
Also on the top of Filezilla is Address: (whose address do I put in?
User: (Again what name do I put in?) In the setting up website tonight it is different again!even that wont work, Filezilla comes up with unable to connect, I must have tried 200 times, have read the help part but still no go, please can you help.
Regards
Tom.
admin @ 10:42 am:
Thanks Tom for your question.
I try to make everything as clear as I can, but it’s really helpful to hear when I’ve made some assumptions.
The three bits of information that you need to give Filezilla (or any other FTP program) in order to make a connection and transfer data to or from the site are as follows:
Host: this is the url of your site, eg mysite.com (usually the plain name, without any www or http or anything). The box marked “address” refers to this also.
It also asks you for a Port - this almost always is 21.
The username that is needed is the FTP username for the domain and its associated password. (in general this will not be the same as the control panel name and password you use for setting up email accounts, databases etc.) The way these are allocated varies from one hosting company to another. Sometimes they will email you the name and password when you open the account, in other cases there will be a facility on the control panel for you to add ftp users and choose your own password. Remember to make it a secure one - a mixture of upper and lower case letters including numerals and not a dictionary word.
If you can’t find how to do it in the help files or FAQs, just email tech support at your hosting supplier “How do I find or set my FTP username?”.
Hope this helps
Good Luck
Derek.