What is FileZilla? FileZilla is a File Transfer Program (=FTP). It’s a free, open source program, easy to install and easy to use. Just type “FileZilla” into Google and you will find it.

A word of warning: please make sure you type the name correct. There are websites using spelling errors to attract people who are looking for the FileZilla download page. After this fraudulent pages show up, people are asked for their name and other information in order to be able to download the software. Unfortunately you don’t only get the software but also a bill for some kind of membership. Free, open source programs are always free! If you need to enter your name in order to get the free software, leave the site and start a new search.

Now: why would you need a File Transfer Program? It’s a handy tool to upload files to your web hosting server or download them from the server on your computer hard disc.

Once you installed FileZilla on your computer and opened it, you will see a page, vertically divided in two parts. On the left side you find an overview of the folders and files on your hard disc. The right side is empty. The upper part of the page is also empty, showing four empty fields and the lower part of the page informs you if you copy files from your computer to the web hosting server or if it’s the other way round.

To start using FileZilla, you need to go to the upper part of the page. Set the cursor in the first empty field on the left and enter the name of your server. You need to enter the name without the http:// or the www. if the name of my webpage is http://www.nameofthewebsite.com, I would enter nameofthewebsite.com. In the next field (right beside the first one), enter the username you got from your web host and in the next field your password (you got that also from your web host). This leaves you with one empty field, but you don’t need to worry about that. Click on ‘connect’, the last field in the row. You will see, that many answers and requests are send to and forth. If the answers are green, you are on the right way. If you see only red answers, somewhere along the way you entered wrong information or you don’t have internet access.

If everything went fine and you got all answers in green, you are connected to your web host. Let’s say you want to upload the file abc on your computer to the public_html folder on your web host server. At the right side of the FileZilla page, you see two windows. Look at the upper window, where you will see a + followed by a folder icon and a /. Click on the + and your tree on the server becomes visible. Scroll down to the ‘public_html’ folder and click on it. The content of the public_html folder becomes visible in the lower window.

Now look at the left side of the FileZilla page and select the file you want to upload. Once you found the file, you can either double click on the file or right click and select upload. In the field at the bottom you will now see how FileZill uploads abc to the public_html folder and at the bottom you are informed if the file transfer was successful or not.

If you suddenly have no connection to your web host, don’t worry. If you don’t use FileZilla, it will cut the connection automatically due to security reasons. In case you want to reconnect, select connect. If you already closed FileZilla and want to connect to the same address again, you don’t need to enter all the data again. Above the four empty fields you find a row with icons. Hover the cursor over them and right click to see what you can do with them. One of them (it should be the 10th from the left) reconnects to the server you used last time.

If you are done with your file transfers, simply close FileZilla – that’s all. Have a great time exploring FileZilla!

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Author: Angelika Juritsch
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