How do I use FireFTP (FireFox add-on) to upload my website?

FireFTP is a free, open source FTP client for the Mozilla Firefox Browser. Once installed, you can follow the steps below to connect to your web hosting account and upload your website.

1. From the 'Tools' menu in FireFox select 'FireFTP'
2. Select 'Create an Account' from the dropdown menu.
3. Enter 'ftp.example.com' (replace example.com with your domain name) into the 'Host' field.
4. In the 'Login' field enter your account's username and domain name in the format of 'username@example.com'.
5. Enter your account's password in the 'Password' field.
6. Click the 'Connection' tab.
7. Enter '/var/www/html' in the 'Remote' field.
8. Click 'OK'
9. Select account from the dropdown menu and click 'Connect'.
10. Select the files you want to publish from the left hand side of the screen and click on the green arrow pointing to the right hand side to upload the files.

If you wish to upload CGI scripts to the account just enter '/var/www' as the 'Remote Site Folder' at step 6. Then when uploading files, place the CGI scripts in the cgi-bin directory and the HTML files in the html directory.

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