University Computing Services

The Server -- Unix, sFTP and more

You may have created the greatest webpages ever written but no one's going to know about it if they exist only on your desktop computer. Garnet and Mailer are running software that makes the files you store on them available to the World Wide Web. The environment that the web server runs on is an operating system called UNIX. The way that you transport your files from your desktop onto the server is called sFTP (secured file transfer protocol). See also Secure Shell Software.

UCS's Using the UNIX Operating System is a guide to understanding and navigating the environment on Garnet and Mailer.

Here's a couple of great guides to using the FTP software, Secure Shell sFTP and Fetch.

UCS servers do not support Microsoft Frontpage extensions at this time.

See the Working with the Server section of the Frequently Asked Questions page for solutions to common problems. Visi

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