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How to Transfer Your HTML Files for Your Personal Web Page on a Mac

First off, if you have not already done so, you must request a shell account in order to post a personal website. This is because our shell server is also our customer webserver. This is a free service for any customer with at least a dial-up account with us.

To request a shell account, please email support@lmi.net and request one. Please provide us a password to establish the account with. It should be at least 6 characters long and contain at least one non-letter.

You will need an FTP utility to upload your files. If you are using Mac OS X, you can do this right from the Terminal window, but most Mac users prefer to use a graphical utility such as Cyberduck, Fetch, or Interarchy.

Here are instructions assuming you are using Interarchy 6.3 or later, either under OS X or OS 9:

1. Launch the Interarchy application.
2. From the File menu, select "FTP->FTP Listing" (or Command-E)
3. The server name is "users.lmi.net"
4. The user name would be your login name (NOT you entire email address, just the actual login name)
5. Type in your password and click the List button. You should now be looking at the files (if any) in you home directory.
6. You will need to create a new directory called "www" if you have not already done so. This can be done from the "Create Directory" item under the Listing menu (or Command-Shift-N).
7. All of your web content should be placed inside the "www" directory. This is done by simply dragging the files from you own hard disk on top of the "www" directory icon in Interarchy. Please note that your main page should be titled "index.html".

That's it! Your URL will be: http://users.lmi.net/your_login

Important notes about file naming conventions:
All files names are case-sensitive under Unix. Index.html is NOT the same as index.html. Standard convention is to use all lowercase file names. All HTML files must have the extension ".html" or ".htm" at the end for them to work. Also, if you are authoring on your Mac locally, remember not to use spaces in file or folder names--UNIX can't handle that, so it would not work once you transfer the files.

1. Open the Terminal application (in Applications/Utilities).
2. Enter the command "ftp users.lmi.net", and supply your name and password.

Now you are in. You can create the "www" directory with the command "mkdir www"
You can move into to www directory with the command "cd www"
You can upload a file from your own home directory (on your Mac) with the "put" command.
You can download files to your Mac with the "get" command.

Here is an example terminal session, where user "frank" logs in, gets a listing of his "www" directory, downloads a copy of his start page ("index.html"), then uploads a JPG file:

[osx:~] dan% ftp users.lmi.net
Connected to users.lmi.net.
220 shell.lmi.net FTP server (Version 6.00LS) ready.
Name (users.lmi.net:frank): frank
331 Password required for frank.
Password:
230 User frank logged in.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.

ftp> cd www
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> ls
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||52453|)
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'.
total 50
-rwxr-xr-x  1 frank  wheel   1005 Oct 13 01:51 index.html
drwxr-xr-x  2 frank  wheel    512 Oct 13 01:51 dentalfloss.html
-rwxr-xr-x  1 frank  wheel   3270 Oct 13 01:51 weasel.jpg
-rwxr-xr-x  1 frank  wheel    242 Oct 13 01:51 mothers.html
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> get index.html
local: index.html remote: index.html
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||52455|)
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'index.html' (1005 bytes).
100% |**************************************|  1005     107.79 KB/s    00:00 ETA
226 Transfer complete.
1005 bytes received in 00:00 (100.96 KB/s)
ftp> put hotrats.jpg 
local: hotrats.jpg remote: hotrats.jpg
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||52456|)
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'hotrats.jpg'.
100% |**************************************| 74522     544.48 KB/s    00:00 ETA
226 Transfer complete.
74522 bytes sent in 00:00 (298.60 KB/s)
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