FTP via cli/terminal

If you're comfortable working in the Linux terminal, or on Windows, command prompt or PowerShell, you can upload files to our hosting servers via FTP without having to install a separate client application, and without having to use the control panel web interface.

Windows command prompt

This section contains text as it appears in command prompt, and we will highlight that text

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When we want to show you a command that you have to type and enter, we'll indicate that with the dollar sign "$" and it will be shown like this:

> Hello

This means "type the word 'hello' and press enter".

If we want to illustrate some text that you will have to replace, we will put that text [in square brackets like this].

For example, to indicate that you should type your user name and press enter:

> [your user name]

Open command prompt (Windows key + R to open the "Run" dialog. Enter cmd and press Enter).

In the command prompt, navigate to the folder where your website files are located. For example, if your files are in a folder called "My website" in "My Documents":

> cd "C:\Documents and Settings\[Your Windows User Name]\My Documents\My website"

Enter the command "FTP" and the command prompt will change to "ftp>":

> FTP

ftp>

enter "open" followed by your domain name:

$ open [domain.co.za]

Enter your ftp user name and password when prompted.

When you are logged in, navigate to the "httpdocs" folder:

> cd httpdocs

Upload your files:

> mput *

This uploads all the files from your current folder ("My webiste" in the example above) to the httpdocs folder on the server.

Wait for the upload to finish, and then type and enter "exit" to log out.

226 Transfer complete ftp> exit 221 Goodbye.

You can now close the command prompt window.