MIS 45-870

Spring, 2000--Mini 3, Prof. Sandra Slaughter

FTP Tips and Instructions

Your team has been assigned an Andrew directory for your MIS 45-879 coursework.
This directory is located at:
/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/course/45/870/team##
Where ## is your team number. For example, Team 01 has a directory:
/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/course/45/870/team01
Team captains and web masters have been assigned full access rights to these directories. Everyone else in the class, and the world, can read and load your web pages, but only team captains and web masters can FTP files to their respective team directories. We can change access rights at the request of a team captain.
We suggest that you create a quick and simple test file using FrontPage 2000 called index.htm that you can FTP to your team directory to ensure everything is working properly. You can browse your test file and your final web page by pointing at the URL listed for your team in the table above.
To FTP files to your team directory, load WS_FTP and log in. In the right pane, which displays your Andrew home directory, click on the "ChgDir" button and type in your team's directory per 1 above. You can then go to the left pane and FTP files and directories from you local computer to your team directory in Andrew.
Compose your web pages in a dedicated subdirectory in your local computer using FrontPage 2000. Please be sure that you name your main page "index.htm". If you feel compelled to use a different name for your main page, please let us know.
Once you finish composing your web pages using FrontPage, FTP all your files and subdirectories to your team subdirectory in Andrew. The URL for your team page is:
http://www.gsia.cmu.edu/andrew/course/45/870/team##/index.htm
where ## is your team number. For example, team 01's URL is: http://www.gsia.cmu.edu/andrew/course/45/870/team01/index.htm
Please let us know if you have any problems or questions. Also, please let us know if there are any misspellings or errors in the table above.

Important Tips!!

We suggest you use lower case for all files and directories. Unix is case sensitive so it will interpret "Index.htm" as a different file from "index.htm". Windows file names are not case sensitive. So, if something seems to work well in your local computer running Windows, and doesn't work when you FTP to Andrew, it may be because of a mismatch between the filnames you used in your HTML files and how you actually named the files. The easiest thing is to use lower case for everything. If you want to use upper case or a mix, just be sure to be consistent accross the board.
If you make changes to your web files in your local computer and FTP to Andrew, and then go to browse your updated page, you may not see your changes. Don't dispair!! Windows keeps copies of the pages you have browsed in memory and in temporary files on disk to reduce loading time of frequently browsed pages. If you notice that your changes are not reflected when you browse your web page, click on the "Refresh" button. This will clear any old pages loaded in memory. If you still can't see the changes, click on "Tools" and then select "Internet Options" and click on the button that says "Delete Files" in the section titled "Temporary Internet Files". This will erase old pages you browsed in the past, which the browser copied to a temporary directory (note: you may free up a lot of disk space when you do this since temporary files keep all html, graphics, and other related files from pages you browsed. The only reason not to delete temporary internet files is when you need to browse web pages off-line).
If you have any questions or problems, send me an e-mail or call me:

Alberto Espinosa
E-Mail: josee@andrew.cmu.edu
Office GSIA #20, Tel. (412)268-3681
Enjoy!!
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