Change your web once outside of class
You will change your web site on any PC outside of class. You will add the
words "CHANGED OUTSIDE CLASS" and the location of your computer and the date.
(i.e. CHANGED OUTSIDE CLASS in the library on 10/28/10). You will then check
your web site on the internet to be sure the change took. Post to the Help discussion
board in Course Information if you need help, and remember that you can call
877-3340 for help connecting.
If you cannot get your web site to change, but post to the Help
discussion a very thorough
explanation of what you tried and what is not working, you can receive
a good grade. Just telling me about the problem verbally earns no
credit. There are no time extensions on this assignment, because we
will already be using your site for other assignments.
If you missed class and have
never created a web site in class, you
can still do this assignment. You will be creating a web page
instead of changing on. You will do step 4 below while everyone else
will skip step 4. You will skip step 6 and everyone else will do step
6.
Exact Steps:
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for a movie of the entire assignment if you never created a website in class.
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here for a movie of the entire assignment if you did create a website in class.
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steps
- Get the programs you will need: If you don't have SeaMonkey (or Mozilla
composer) And FileZilla on your PC, please go back to the starter
day to download it. (SeaMonkey is used to change web pages. FileZilla
lets you copy files back and forth from panther, the Adelphi web server. It
will actually let you transfer files to any web site for which you have the
ftp host name, user and password.)
- Create a place on your computer for you to work: Open windows explorer
(right click on start and choose "explore"). Double click on "C". Create a
new directory called "my_public_html" using file / new / folder. (You need
to do this because you cannot open a file on panther in SeaMonkey. You need
to have a mirror copy on your machine, so that you can make changes on your
machine, and then transfer them back up to panther.)
- Connect by SFTP to panther: Use FileZilla to connect to panther.adelphi.edu.
(You can choose file / site manager, and then hit the new site button and
then name it your name. The host is panther.adelphi.edu. The servertype is
SFTP. Change the logontype to ask for password and then enter your ecampus
username and press connect. OR You can refer to the FTP guide on this assignment page) When
connected, you will see your panther account files in the remote window. These
are the same files the system uses when you type www.adelphi.edu/~<your
account> in your browser.
- Only if this is your first time connecting to panther, create your public_html:
(and you missed the first web class), you might need to create public_html.
To do that: right click on your account and "create directory". It will create
a directory called "newfolder"; change "newfolder" to "public_html" with no
capitals and don't forget the _. There is a movie showing how to do this.
- Point FileZilla to the correct folders: Change FileZilla's "local
site" to c:\my_public_html and change FileZilla's "remote site" to /home/<your
account>/public_html. This is Very important. (You want to be sure both
sides of your mirror are set. You want to see panther's index.html on the
right side and you want to be looking at the files in your mirror folder on
the left side.)
- Only if you already have a web site on panther, bring your page down
from panther to your pc: Drag your web public_html files from panther
to your new my_public_html directory. (You just want to see index.html inside
my_public_html. You do not want a public_html folder inside your my_public_html.)
NOTE: If you missed class, you will need to skip this step. Also, if you have
any trouble, you can skip this step and start a new page from scratch. (Even
though you are just dragging across your screen, bits and bytes are travelling
through wires to pick up the file from panther's machine, just as if you had
walked over the the business building and used a flash drive or floppy to
copy index.html onto it, and then walked it over to your PC.)
- Open your page so you can change it: Use SeaMonkey or Mozilla Composer
to open your index.html file. Be sure to first get into composer so you see
a pen in the upper left corner. To do this, choose window / composer first,
and then file / open file. (Note: If you were not in class, you will need
to create a web page using SeaMonkey's window / composer / file / new and
save it as index.html in mypublichtml. ) Regardless of whether you were in
class, you want to end this step with an index.html sitting in your public_html.
- Change your page in composer: In SeaMonkey, on your index.html page,
add the words "CHANGED OUTSIDE CLASS" and also type the location in which
you made your change and the date. Then save it. (You are either creating
a new page, or changing the copy of the page that was on panther. At this
point, your web page is changed on your machine, but not on panther's. So,
you can see the change on your machine, but noone else can see it. )
- Pass your changed file back to the internet: In Filezilla, check
again that the local side shows mypublichtml and the remote site shows public_html.
Drag the index.html file back up to panther by double clicking on index.html
on the local (left) side. It should ask you to overwrite the existing file,
and you will need to say yes. (This step copies the changed web page from
your system to panthers. It is very important that you put that index.html
file into public_html, because when you look at your website in the browser,
it will pick up the file that is called index.html in public_html.)
- See your web site on the internet: Look at your web site using a
web browser (i.e. internet explorer) to see www.adelphi.edu/~<your panther
account>, and be sure to press refresh. See your changes. If you have problems,
please post to the Help Discussion board. (You get your panther account name
from looking at filezilla. It will be right above public_html, or after /home.
It will have 2 characters and 5 numbers probably. For example, my address
is www.adelphi.edu/~pe16132.)
- Post your web site address to Moodle if you did not already. If you
do not have your web address on the web address discussion board (if you were
not in class), please post your web site address to the discussion board.
(While you are looking at your website in the browser, copy the address that
starts with http and paste it into the web site address discussion board on
moodle, or just email it to pepper@adelphi.edu.)
Adelphi's
filezilla guide for installation and use
Other ftp managers
Adelphi recommends (putty and bitevise)