Downloading Web Page Files

Using Filezilla to download files from a web server

 

Filezilla is a popular free program used to upload and download files from your computer to a web server. Websites are hosted on FTP servers ( File Transport Protocol ) and FileZilla is an FTP client.

If you already have FileZilla installed on your system, skip ahead to the next section now.

You can get a free copy of FileZilla at http://filezilla-project.org/. Go to that site, and click in the button Download FileZilla Client.

When the download completes, run the installer application that was just downloaded. Once Filezilla is installed on your system, go ahead and launch FileZilla.

 

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Connecting to Your Web Server

This example assumes:

Server: greenprints.biz

Username: admin@greenprints

Password: blackjack.

Note that the password is case sensitive. That means the password must be entered using upper and lower case letters.

Enter your server name, user name and password, then click in the Quick Connect button.
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Find that directory in the right column, click the arrow to the left of "public_html" and you'll see the directory structure for your website.
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