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Introduction

This tutorial will help you upload your first files to the SRCF so you can serve them up from your web page or use them in whatever project you’re working on.

In this tutorial, you will be using SFTP to upload your files. Let’s get started!

You may or may not have heard of another file transfer protocol called SCP. Most clients like FileZilla and WinSCP are equally compatible with this.

Background

FTP stands for ‘file transfer protocol’ and is another method of connecting to a web server (different to HTTP). It’s the quickest and easiest way to transfer files between the computer you’re working on and the web server where they’ll be supplied to people viewing your website.

Get an SFTP/SCP client

We recommend one of the following:

Some of these might only be available for macOS or Windows or vice versa.

If you use WinSCP then this documentation and also the win-built documentation (in the ‘Help’ menu) will be handy.

Connecting

If you have any questions about the user interface, we recommend checking the documentation of the SFTP client you chose in the first instance. We’ll be more broadly discussing here what you should do, but won’t focus on one particular client.

Use files.srcf.net as the server name (sometimes referred to as the hostname)
Give the username and password that were sent to you when your SRCF account was created.

Uploading a file

When you first log in, you should see the contents of your home directory on our server. Inside your home directory you will find a public_html directory — this is where you can put your personal website.

If you want to upload a group website, you need to connect to the server in the same way, still using your personal username and password. However, rather than putting your files in the public_html directory in your filespace, you should also find a directory named after the short name used for the group’s account. Inside here you’ll find another public_html directory which is where the group website files go.

Please note that it can take up to 20 minutes between uploading a new site and that site being published on the web. Please be patient.

Closing remarks

Did you like this or find this cool? We invite you to check out more tutorials or get in touch to tell us what you thought!

If you have any suggestions for how we could improve this documentation please send us an email at support@srcf.net or submit a Pull Request on GitHub!

Last modified on Tuesday Jul 13, 2021 by Charlie Jonas