USC Annenberg School of Journalism Setting Up Your Student Personal Web Space Using a PC and FileZilla

Your USC Student Personal Web Space As a USC student you have 50 MB of space on the USC web servers. You can use this space to set up your own web sites. Your URL is

http://www-scf.usc.edu/~username (username is your USC e-mail username)

One-Time Set-Up Instructions PC 1. Download FileZilla, an FTP (file transfer protocol) program, to your PC. An FTP program is software that transfers or uploads the HTML files or pages you create on your laptop to the USC server so they can be seen on the Internet. You can download a free copy of FileZilla from http://software.usc.edu 2. Activate your USC student Personal Web Space. Activate your USC website by following the instructions from the USC Information Technology Services department at http://www.usc.edu/its/web/getting_started/ppages.html. Call ITS at 213-740-5555 if you have any problems.

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Setting Up Connections and Folders Using FileZilla 1. Open FileZilla . Under Host, enter sftp://aludra.usc.edu Enter your USC username and password. Click Quickconnect.

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The screens on the left, under "Local site:", are the folders and files on your PC.

The screens on the right-hand side, under "Remote site:, are the folders and files you have on the USC server. Youll see a number of files. You can ignore all of them except the public_html folder. Everything that you put in this folder will be accessible to the public. (Conversely, if you dont put a page or file in this folder, it wont be seen.)

public_html folder
If it doesn't exist already, create it.

Note: Use lower case for all web folder and file names.

3. Double-click on public_html. Once youre inside the public_html folder, you can create a new folder for each class or project. The names of the folders within the public_html folders become part of the URL people can use to access your site. For example, if you create a folder named jour_309 and put all of your JOUR 309 class files in it, the URL for your site is:

http://www-scf.usc.edu/~username/jour_309
To create a new folder, highlight the empty folder, and then right-click on it. Select "New Directory," and create jour_309. Create a new directory or folder called jour_309

Once youre inside this folder (jour_309), you might want to create a new folder called images so you can put all photos and graphics in one place.

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Uploading HTML and Photo Files 1. Open FileZilla . Click on the arrow next to Quickconnect.

You will see sftp://aludra.usc.edu. Highlight it, and click on it, and the connection process will start. 2. 3. Double-click on public_html, then on jour_309. You'll then be in the jour_309 directory or folder. On the LEFT-hand side, you'll see all of the directories/folders on your PC. Find your file by clicking on the C:\Documents and Settings directory, and then on the directory/folder with your name, and then on My Documents. (Your PC may be set up differently; you might need to click around a bit on your C: drive to find the right My Documents directory/folder.) Highlight the file you want to upload, then right-click. You'll see "Upload" click on it. The file will then be copied and transferred to the jour_309 directory on the USC server.

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