FTP Web Site Set-up Instructions

All students are entitled to Web space on the ouray server run through the ITS (13th Floor Lawrence Street Center - 556-6100).

Your accounts are set up for you upon enrollment - If you already have an ouray email address you use the same username and account number for your Web site. If not:
- Activate your account online at https://web.ucdenver.edu/prfw/chpass.cgi and click on “Student Account Activation Form.”
- Enter your Student ID number and PIN, and follow the instructions.
- Upon activation, you will receive a username and password.
Once you have set-up your ouray account you need to create a Web directory on the ouray server. To do this you will need to log into ouray using a secure telnet protocol called "SSH".
- Download putty.exe from: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
- Start putty.exe by double clicking on it.
- Set your Host name to be: ouray.ucdenver.edu
- Set your protocol to "SSH"
- Enter your ouray username and password when prompted to do so.User Id: username
  Password: ********
  
  Once connected to ouray type: makehomepage
Remember - when logging onto ouray, you need to include exact capitalization and punctuation for your password to work!
You can download a free SFTP program WinSCP to use to sftp your files if you are on a Windows machine (for Macs download Cyberduck).
- Install the SFTP program just like you would any other program.
- You can choose the defaults for most of the Installation options.
- One option I change is I usually select that I want to use the "Explorer-like" interface. This makes the WinSCP window work very much like one of the folders on your regular computer.

Once you have a SFTP program installed you log onto your web site on ouray by filling in appropriate values for the Hostname, User name, and Password - then {Click} Login:

Note: I got this error box (below) when I logged in for the first time. It is OK - just click "Yes" and continue:

The SFTP window looks like this:

Before you upload any files you will want to change the file transfer preferences so any files you upload can be browsed via the Internet. To do this:
1. Select View - > Preferences from the top menu
2. Choose "Transfer" from the tree on the left side of the dialog box.
3. Check "Set Permissions" below "Upload Options" on the right side of the dialog box.
4. Make sure the permissions read "rw-r--r-- (+x)"
5. Click OK

To add files to you web site double-{Click} the public_html folder, then drag and drop the files into the folder (in the right-side of the window above).
Remember to drag & drop all of the files associated with your Web page. For example:
- index.html
- image1.gif
- image2.jpg
- If you have your images in a separate "images" folder - you can drag the whole folder to the public_html folder.
Your web page can be viewed at: http://ouray.ucdenver.edu/~username/pagename.html