Fresh Egg: Support and Tutorials

How To Use FTP

This tutorial shows you how to use the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to upload and download files from your web host server.

Windows Explorer is the tool you use when you open My Computer or My Network Places. Windows Explorer is tightly integrated with Internet Explorer and the transition from a local location is often seamless with a network location.

Opening an FTP site is simple with Internet Explorer or Windows Explorer (the procedure is exactly the same).

• Open Internet Explorer or Windows Explorer:
  
• Now to type in the address of the FTP server. We are using FTP instead of HTTP, so you will need to type in ftp://ftp.domain.co.uk
  
• Here you only see what is hosted to the public. To login, right click the screen and click 'Login As'. Alternatively, you may specify your Username when typing the address in as ftp://username@domain.co.uk | You can go a step even further and put your Password in at this time, with a link like ftp://username:password@ftp.domain.co.uk | We don't recommend this because anyone can read your password this way.
  
• If you chose to click 'Login As' you now need to type in your username and password and now you may click and drag files between your computer and your ftp filespace.
  

And that's all there is to it!