Getting started with FTP - The File Transfer Protocol
Chapters
Getting started with FTP - The File Transfer Protocol, is a video course that is subdivided into multiple parts including
- Welcome note
- Prerequisites
- What is FTP
- Installing FTP server on Linux server
- Connect to FTP server using a GUI client
- Connect to FTP server using web browser.
- Connect to FTP server using windows explorer.
- FTP command line
- SFTP - A secure way of transferring data
- Wrapping up
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Added on: 8th Jan 2015
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To access files from FTP server using a web browser is very simple.
Type ftp:// [address of your FTP server], and press enter.
Enter username and password, if access to anonymous user is disabled.
You will be shown files after successful login.
This is for simple access for the files. But you can have greater access using browser extensions.
In my case I am using Firefox and will install a Firefox extension, called FireFTP.
FireFTP is a full fledge FTP client.
Let's add FireFTP to Firefox.
After you added FireFTP to Firefox, Go to tools menu, and then go to Web developer menu, and then select FireFTP option.
This window is quite similar to FileZilla, which we covered in last chapter.
Let's create an account.
Add host name.
Add username and password.
Click ok.
Now press Connect button.
You will now be able to transfer files between your machine and remote host over FTP.
In next chapter, I will show you, how to use Windows Explorer to connect to FTP server.