FTP & Telnet/SSH

Your web pages will be published on RIT's main web server, which uses the Unix operating system. You'll have to learn how to prepare your account for web use generally, and for the class projects specifically. That means creating files and directories, changing permissions, and editing files on the server.

We'll be connecting to the RIT server using the Terminal application in OS X. On Windows-based lab PCs, you'll want to use the PuTTY application. On your own PC, you can do telnet from the Start-->Run command box, or you can download PuTTY or any of a number of other Telnet/SSH clients.

We'll also be looking at FTP, which stands for File Transfer Protocol. We'll be using this to move files and folders from the local computer your working on to your web space on RIT's GIbson server.