Setting up FileZilla
By Joe Gardiner Monday, 22nd March 2010
Our vCluster hosting supports FTP and SFTP, and although you can transfer files to your cluster through a terminal using SSH, it is often easier and more convenient to use a client with a GUI (Graphical user interface).
In fact, we recommend using a GUI FTP client in our CMS install guides, FileZilla for a local run solution.
Let's have a look at why we think this is the best solution...
File Zilla
We like FileZilla a lot. It is absolutely free, continues to offer support from developers and the community, and is cross platform, so anyone using a FireZilla based guide won't have to worry about their operating systems compatibility. It's is an extremely simple program to use with local files on the left, and remote files on the right. You simply select the folder you want to uplod from, and then select the folder you want to upload to, and click go!
FileZilla first time use with your vCluster
Let's quickly go over the steps for connecting to your vCluster using FileZilla for the first time.
Scroll down to the Access (FTP/SFTP) section, and take a look at all the user information. Firstly highlight, and copy the server name e.g. access1.c1.catn.com, go back to the FileZilla window and paste it into the "Host" text field at the top.
Repeat these steps for the username, and password. Note, you may want to change your password on the first use to something you will remember, or use an extra secure generated password, which you can store in a program such as Password Safe.
Once you have entered this information, click "Quick Connect", and the right side panels will now display the contents of your user root directory on the access folder.
You can now (if you installed the shell extension in Windows) drag and drop files from the left panel local navigation to the remote files in the right.
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