How to use ws_FTP LE pt2.
By Chronos |  |
Ok, in the last tutorial will showed you how to use ws_FTP LE. In this tutorial we will show you a few of the extras that the program offers to make it even better than many of the other FTP programs out on the internet.
Figure 1 shows you the menu that will pop up when you right click on a file.
Figure 1.
The top choice of this menu, Sort, when clicked will give you a new pop-up menu as shown in figure 2. This menu allows you to choose the method of sorting the files. This can be altered to make it easier for you.
Figure 2.
The next menu choice is Change Folder. This will allow you to change the name of the folder directly ABOVE where you are.
Below that is Make Folder, again self explanatory, creates a folder on your web space.
Delete folder is the next choice. This will delete the folder that you have chosen, or the folder directly above.
The next menu choices are as follows...
Transfer file. Allows you to transfer the selected files.
Append file. Lets you change the local name of the file.
View file. Opens Notepad so you can see the file contents.
Edit file. Again opens Notepad so you can edit the file.
Execute file. If you have a script that needs running on your web space, this is the choice to do it.
Rename file. Renames your file.
Move files. Allows you to move the file to a new location on your web space.
Delete files. Deletes the selected file.
chmod (unix). Figure 3 shows the new menu that opens when you select this option.
Figure 3.
This may look like a confusing box, but it is really easy to use. The options are Owner, Group, and other and some examples of this are shown below...
1. Read and write for owner, nothing for everybody else chmod ("/somedir/somefile", 600).
2. Read and write for owner, read for everybody else chmod ("/somedir/somefile", 644).
3. Everything for owner, read and execute for others chmod ("/somedir/somefile", 755).
4. Everything for owner, read and execute for owner's group chmod ("/somedir/somefile", 750).
Sometimes an addition to the website, example, phpBB2 or 4images will ask you to make certain folders and files read, write and execute for all. In this case you would tick all the boxes. This makes the file or folder 777. Below is a script for you to play with, so that you can understand the numbers better.
This free script provided by
JavaScript Kit
The next 2 menu items are Refresh list and folder list. These are very self explanatory. The final menu item is FTP commands. 99% of the time you will never touch this part, and as this is the case, we won't go into this menu.
We hope you have found this tutorial helpful. Enjoy and happy FTP'ing
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