Using WinSCP to update windofkeltia.com
Server windofkeltia.com does not support ftp, file transfer protocol, access for security reasons. This is an ancient protocol that isn’t very secure.
Here are instructions for starting to maintain your web pages on server windofkeltia.com. You will need to use a new protocol for copying your web domain files over to the server. I suggest scp, or secure copy protocol, which requires special software that is free and easier to use than your old ftp anyway if you get the software I recommend here.
From Windows, you can’t directly use ssh and scp, but must use a special Windows implementation thereof. This page shows you how to install and use it.
Down-loading and Installalling WinSCP Login
Launch a browser on the URL http://winscp.net/eng/index.php. Click on the Download link in the orange links bar to the download page...
Click on Installation package.
Save the file to wherever you put your downloads and launch it in your customary manner to begin the installation.
Before Running WinSCP The First Time
Before running WinSCP, place a DNS entry into your Windows hosts file either by opening a DOS command window and going to it as shown here or by launching Notepad and navigating to the hosts file on this path.
Here’s the entry to add; it doesn’t matter where in the file you add it, but below you can see where I added it to mine.
69.169.174.12 windofkeltia windofkeltia.com
Use the red numbers shown here in place of what I’ve got in my copy. Because windofkeltia.com is behind my firewall, I have to refer to it differently from the usual way.
Save this file just as for any other file you edit using Notepad then exit Notepad. Doing this more or less DOS operation will save you some trouble in the long run. You can also skip the DOS command line and just launch Notepad then go look on this path for the file yourself. Whichever way you want.
Running WinSCP for The First Time
Launching WinSCP and fill in the edit fields marked with a red X thus, except use your login name in place of vicback shown here. Enter your password as shown. Choose Save... and click OK twice.
You end up with a dialog that looks like this. The next time you launch WinSCP, you won’t have to type in this information again and you can add new sites you manage by clicking on the red-circled button. We will not do this here, but the procedure is the same as for the first time.
For now, click on Login at the bottom of the dialog...
You might see something like this dialog; click on Yes...
You should now have a new File Explorer-style window on your desktop showing what’s in /home/vicback on my web server. Double-click the public_html folder: this is where you’ll always put your web documents starting with index.html.
Running WinSCP to Transfer Files
Now let’s copy some files over. Open My Computer on your local Windows workstation and navigate to where you maintain your website. Here, I’ve clicked and dragged to select all the files I want to move over to the server; after selecting them, I just grab and drag them over and drop them into the public_html folder on vicback@windofkeltia.
