1.
If you are a staff member desiring a staff web account you need
to first set your internet browser to http://www.psdschools.org.
2.
On the menu bar, click on [Intranet]. It will then ask you to log into the PSD Intranet, please do so.
3.
Click the "Staff/Teacher Services" selection on the
left of the screen.
4.
A list of options will now appear on your screen. Click "Create Your Staff Web
Account"
5.
Login with the same login and password that was used to access
the Intranet.
I will be using the terms “local system” and “remote system” is this document. The definitions are:
·
Local System – The system on which all of your
files are stored and from which they are edited.
·
Remote System – The web server
to which you will be “pushing” all of your files you want others to be able to
access via the web.
FTP stands for “File Transfer Protocol.” It is used to copy files from your home account to the storage location for your web pages on the district server. There are a few basic commands that you should know to use FTP.
1.
To transfer files you first need to have a DOS Command Prompt
window. Open the [Start] menu, by
default found on the tool bar at the bottom of the screen on the left end of
the tool bar.
2.
Click [Start] and then click the Run… entry.
3.
This will bring up a dialog box with the header Run. In the Open: command entry box type
the word: */***/*-/and then press the [Enter] key.
4.
This will bring up a white letter on black background DOS
command prompt dialog box. This is the
way Microsoft used to look before it introduced Windows 3.1.1.
5.
At the prompt, type cd public, this will put you into
your directory that should have your web page information.
6.
Now type ftp staffweb.psdschools.org to connect to
the PSD web server.
7.
It will put up a request for your user name, type that in and
then press [Enter].
8.
It will then prompt you for your password. Put that in also and press [Enter].
9.
You are now connected to the server. If you wait too long between entering commands, the server will
disconnect you. To reconnect, you may
either “quit” and restart the ftp session or just type open
staffweb.psdschools.org and go through the login process as describe in
the previous steps. The advantage of
the open command is that it leaves your “local” directory as you
last left it.
10.
To leave ftp, type quit and press [Enter].
11.
To close the command shell, type exit and press
[Enter].
12.
The PSD web server will time out after 120 seconds. If your are at the ftp> prompt,
just type open staffweb.psdschools.org to reconnect to the PSD
web server. You will need to re-enter
your login information. Your local
directory will remain how you last set it, but you will need to change your
directory (cd) back to the desired web server directory.
Most basic web files are html files, meaning that they must have
suffixes of html (or for Microsoft files htm). Also, the primary file in your user account
must have the name index.htm or index.html. Therefore, your main file will be named index.htm
(because we use Microsoft Word to edit our files) and it will reside in your
main web directory. I have placed my index.htm
file directly under the Public directory in my account so that
when I ftp into the PSD web server, I can copy the files
and directories under my Public directory directly into my main web page
directory.
Here are a few basic commands that you may use under FTP. Please remember that there are commands you
need to execute on both your local system and the remote system. Commands can be executed on both the local
system and the remote system. Since you
have logged onto the remote system, all commands you type will be executed on
the remote system. To execute commands
on your local system, you must type “! “ before any command. This is an exclamation mark (or as is
affectionately called “bang.”). An
example session might be:
·
bin
(this is probably an optional command, it means binary
and allows you to transmit formatted files).
·
put index.htm
(transfer your main file over to your web site. Once you have done this, you should be able
to access it).
·
mkdir MyClass (this will create a directory on your
website. It should correspond exactly
to a directory under Public on your account).
·
cd MyClass (Change your website, or remote,
directory to MyClass).
·
lcd MyClass (or ! cd MyClass) (change your
local, or account, directory to MyClass).
·
put FileName.htm (Copy your file
FileName.htm from your local, or account, directory into your
remote, website, directory).
·
get FileName.htm (Copy your file FileName.htm
from your remote, website, directory into your local, or account, directory).
·
mput File*.htm (Multiple copy of all of your files
starting with File and ending with .htm from your
local, or account, directory into your remote, website, directory).
·
mget File*.htm (Multiple copy of all of your
files starting with File and ending with .htm from
your remote, website, directory into your local, or account, directory).
·
dir (list all of your files and directories
under your current remote, website, directory).
·
! dir (list all of your files and directories
under your current local, account, directory).
·
quit (exit out of the ftp connection).
·
exit (exit out of Microsoft’s command line
prompt dialog box).