WebDocsOnServer Placing your Web documents on a server 30 October 2000 - J. Buchanan There are a number of ways to place documents on servers so that they are accessible from the web. This session shows some methods and tools for doing this. The web server is usually a UNIX machine. The basic directory structure is similar to what you find in your PC or Macintosh, it contains directories of files and subdirectories. The process for placing documents in the server directory or in retrieving files is FTP, or File Transfer Protocol.
Names are case sensitive, i.e. capital letters are different from lower-case letters.
Also note that the names are listed in order with capital letters sorting before lower-case letters. Note that the .jpg and .jpeg extensions are treated the same by the server. To do file transfers, you first need to connect to the server via some program that does the FTP processes for you. For an Apple Macintosh you can use programs such as Fetch or Anarchie. On a Windows machine, you can use FTP Explorer or something similar.