Module 2: Transferable Skills
Computer Science Capstone CIS4910C Section 1
When you provide a service to potential clients / customers through website,
and this service could be anything such as online education tools, online retail
store, or even a portfolio for yourself then you need a webserver to store your
data. In another word, the webserver is saving your website presentation data.
Most of the time, when you build a website, all the components of your
website will be stored on your local personal computer; so, you need to have
some sort of method to transfer these components to the server, so it can go
live. The most common way for uploading data to the server is called FTP
client. FTP or File Transfer Protocol is the method that used to send data
between local computers to another form of computers that designed to be a
server.
So, FTP plays the role of file manager and in reality, when you download or
upload a file, FTP client makes a copy of these files and either download it for
the webserver to your machine or send this copy from your local machine to
the webserver.
To upload or download file to and from the server, you will need a FTP
client, and one of the commonly used programs is FileZella. FIleZella will
required some login and security settings to your host, so it makes sure that the
Computer Science Capstone CIS4910C Section 1
When you provide a service to potential clients / customers through website,
and this service could be anything such as online education tools, online retail
store, or even a portfolio for yourself then you need a webserver to store your
data. In another word, the webserver is saving your website presentation data.
Most of the time, when you build a website, all the components of your
website will be stored on your local personal computer; so, you need to have
some sort of method to transfer these components to the server, so it can go
live. The most common way for uploading data to the server is called FTP
client. FTP or File Transfer Protocol is the method that used to send data
between local computers to another form of computers that designed to be a
server.
So, FTP plays the role of file manager and in reality, when you download or
upload a file, FTP client makes a copy of these files and either download it for
the webserver to your machine or send this copy from your local machine to
the webserver.
To upload or download file to and from the server, you will need a FTP
client, and one of the commonly used programs is FileZella. FIleZella will
required some login and security settings to your host, so it makes sure that the
