Publishing Your Site Using FTP Publishing Your Site Using FTP FTP is a program that allows you to move files between computers on the Internet. It stands for File Transfer Protocol.
Web browsers support ftp in much the same way they support http.
You would be presented with a list of directories and you can navigate and download files just by clicking on them. This is only for retrieving files. Uploading files, or moving them from your computer to another computer is a little more involved. Where login is your screen name at Connix. It will then ask you for your password, and put you in your home directory.