Configuring FileZilla for File Exchanges with a Server

Remember that just having an account on a Web server, such as 000webhost.com, is not enough. We must have a way to transfer our website and its various page and media files to and from our personal compute where we create the website and our account on the 000webhost.com server. This is usually done with a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) program. FileZilla is one such program. To do what is demonstrated next you will must first have downloaded FileZilla to your personal computer.

Using FileZilla

The following video describes how to use FileZilla to transfer files to and from a 000webhost.com account.

Testing the Results

Once the portfolio folder holding the website we have been constructing on our own computer has been uploaded we should check to determine whether our website is now accessible by anyone. To do this, we open a browser and type in http://www.our-domain-name/portfolio, where our-domain-name is replaced with the domain name we were assigned by 000webhost.com. The part:

http://www.our-domain-name

gets to the public_html folder in our account on 000webhost.com. Completing that with

http://www.our-domain-name/portfolio

gets into the portfolio folder we just uploaded in the public_html folder. Since there is an index.html page at the top level in the portfolio folder, that index.html page is returned to the requesting browser.

The following movie demonstrates this test.