Web Development Rhetoric RHE 309K • Fall 2008

Logging into your Folder

Accessing your Folder in the CWRL labs

In the labs, you can access your folder directly.

On a PC

  1. Log in.
  2. Double click “TEACHER FOLDERS” on the desktop.
  3. Double click the “martin” folder.
  4. Double click the “student_html” folder.

You can edit the files in your group's folder directly, but I recommend making a copy to the computer you're working on anyway, since the files in student_html are live — they're accessible on the web. Best to finish your changes and then publish them once you've got all the bugs worked out.

On a Mac

  1. Log in.
  2. When it asks “Would you like to open your Teacher Folder now?” click Yes.
  3. Type in “martin” and click okay.
  4. Sometimes the “Name” field on the third gets changed to “PCUSER”. If this has happened, replace “PCUSER” with “martin”. Enter your own password (the same one you used to log into the computer) and click “OK”.
  5. A new icon will appear on the desktop labeled “MARTIN”. Double click it.
  6. Double click student_html.

You can now edit the files in your folder directly, but I recommend making a copy to the computer you're working on anyway, since the files in student_html are live — they're accessible on the web. Best to finish your changes and then publish them once you've got all the bugs worked out.

Accessing your Folder Remotely

Here are instructions for logging into your folder remotely.

Account details

To reach your folder using file transfer protocol (FTP, you need to know the following details:

Site
www2.cwrl.utexas.edu
Port
1701
Connection type
SFTP (secure file transfer protocol)
User name
Your UT EID.
Password
Same password as logging onto the CWRL computers.

These details are the same on both PC and Mac.

Setting up FileZilla

Initial Setup - Windows

This only needs to be done once.

  1. Download FileZilla. Get the automated installer for Windows, ending in “win32-setup.exe”.
  2. Install FileZilla by double-clicking the installer file you just downloaded and following the instructions.
  3. Start FileZilla. Unless you told the installer not to, it should have created a “FileZilla” folder in your Start menu. It also offered the option to create a shortcut on your desktop, but that's not turned on by default.

Initial Setup - Mac

This only needs to be done once.

  1. Download FileZilla. Get the correct version for your type of Mac. If your Mac uses an Intel processor, get the one with “i686” in the file name. Otherwise, get the one with “powerpc” in the file name.
  2. Double-click the file you just downloaded. This is a compressed archive; double-clicking it will decompress it. When it is done decompressing, you will have a big red FileZilla icon on your desktop. You will also have two compressed files rather than one - a .tar file, and a .tar.bz2 file. You can safely delete the .tar and the .tar.bz2 files.
  3. Drop FileZilla into your Applications folder.
  4. Start FileZilla just like any other program.

Configuration

This only needs to be done once.

  1. Once FileZilla is running, start the “Site Manager”. You can do that in any one of three ways: press CONTROL+S (or COMMAND+S on Mac), or click the File menu and select “Site Manager”, or click the toolbar icon showing two tiny computers on top of a globe at the far left of the toolbar.
  2. Click “New Site”. A new site icon will appear in the left side of the Site Manager window named “New site”, and its name will be selected. Type in a name for it - I use “CWRL” but you can call it anything you like.
  3. On the right side of the Site Manager, you'll see the site details for the new site you've created. Fill in the site details, as given in the “Account Details” section above. For “Logontype” select “Normal”. Type in your CWRL user name for “User” and your CWRL password for “Password.”
  4. Click “Advanced”. In the “Default remote directory” field enter “/raid/CWRL/Teacher_Folders/Teacher_Folders/martin/student_html/Fall2008/” (no quotes). This will set up the connection so that when you log in it goes straight to the list of folders.
  5. Click OK to save the changes. You have now set FileZilla up.

Using FileZilla

  1. Start FileZilla if it's not already running.
  2. Click the site manager icon.
  3. Double-click the site you defined (e.g. “CWRL”).
  4. The first time you do this, you'll get a security prompt. Check the “Always trust this host, add key to cache” box and click OK.

FileZilla will now connect. If everything is working correctly, then two things will happen: in the pane at the top of the window, you'll see a whole bunch of black, blue, and green messages, and in the right-hand middle pane a list of group folders will appear. If you see a bunch of red messages at the top, and the right-hand pane remains empty, then it didn't work; go back to the Site Manager and make sure you've typed in all the details correctly.

Once you've connected, you can begin transferring files. The left hand pane shows YOUR computer (Left = Local Computer). The right hand pane shows the CWRL server (Right = Remote Computer). To copy one file from the CWRL to your computer, double-click it. To copy an entire folder from the CWRL to your computer, drag the folder from the right side to the left side. Transferring files from your computer to the CWRL server works exactly the same way — double-click or drag from your side to the server side.

If you're copying a file and there's already a copy at the destination, FileZilla will ask you what you want to do. Your choices are “Overwrite” (which replaces the existing file with the one you're copying), “Overwrite if newer” (which replaces the existing file if the one you're copying is newer), “Resume” (which resumes an interrupted download - you can ignore this option 99% of the time), “Rename” (which lets you type in a new file name for the file you're copying), and “Skip” which cancels the copy of that particular file. If you're copying lots of files, and you want to use the same overwrite settings with each, click the check box labeled “Always use this action when a file already exists.”

When you're done, you can just close FileZilla.

Etiquette

All of you have access to every folder. Please stay out of other peoples' folders.

The Resources folder is open to all; please don't delete the files stored there, though you're welcome to copy them. If you have a useful resource that you're willing to share with the whole class, please drop it in there and let everyone know that it exists.