Be sure that you’ve given me your e-mail address and other personal information on hard copy. We’ll run through the process of checking on the space for your Web sites next class. If you did not have Web space (a public_html folder), you would need to run an SSH (secure shell protocol) session (via puTTy on a PC or the Terminal utility on a Mac) to create a public_html directory on the alpha server.
Your alpha password should be 12345_abc where 12345=first five numbers of your Social Security Number, then an underscore (shift-hyphen), then first three letters of your last name, lowercase. No spaces. Apparently some students are now given a password in which 12345 =first five numbers of your La Salle ID, so try that as well.However, our IT folks have created a public_html folder for you (in most cases). So you can use Filezilla (FTP or File Transfer Protocol client) to see if the public_html is there. If you haven’t got a copy of Filezilla at home, go to Fillezilla-project.org and download the free version. Other options are FTP clients from
smartftp.com OR
ftpcommander.com
When you log on here or at home, set the Host Name to:
alpha.lasalle.edu,
and use your regular ID and your alpha password (12345_abc format) and Port = 22. Alternatively, you can set the host to
sftp://alpha.lasalle.edu (Q: What does the "S" stand for?) and then you can leave Port blank. You can also try to use ftp through the browser at sftp://alpha.lasalle.edu, but not while on campus.
And here is a site with training links to most everything a Web developer might need to know: bento.
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