Upload a file to your web site

Last updated: 5/9/01

Use this to upload a file to your Destination Web Site over the Internet. You must register with a user name, password and web site to use this. To register, contact David Bowen at (313) 577-1498 (work) or (248) 549-8518 (home) or by email d.r.bowen@wayne.edu.

What to do:

1. Fill out the User Name, Password and Destination Web Site (see NOTE below) blanks below
2. Select the file you want to upload using the "Browse" button
3. Click on the Upload Now button at the bottom

What NOT to do:

1. This system will not work if any part of the path (drive, folders or file name) has a space in it. For example, this system will not work if your file is in the folder "c:\My Documents" because that has a space in it.

2. This system will mangle your file if the name (not including the extension after the "dot") is greater than eight characters long. For example, "LongName.htm" is OK because "LongName" has eight characters, but "DoesntWork.htm" will not work because "DoesntWork" has ten characters. If you use a file name longer than eight characters, the file will appear to be OK, but its contents will be scrambled.

So that others cannot misuse this system, we keep a log of all transactions.

DESTINATION WEB SITE: see note below on filling this out.

FILENAMES: See note below on filenames.

DESTINATION WEB SITE:: If all of your web content files are in a single folder on the web server, leave "Destination Web Site" at its default value of "all". If your web content is in more than one file, change "Destination Web Site" to indicate the folder in which to place the upload. To upload to your top-level folder, leave "Destination Web Site" at its default value of "all".

FILENAMES: On the CLL web server, as of this date (11/15/99), filenames must conform to the old DOS "8.3" filename convention. That is,

• The full file name is a name, followed by a dot (.) followed by an extension.
• The name must be a maximum of eight characters long.
• The extension must be a maximum of three characters long.
• The following characters should NOT be used, either in the file name or in the extension: dot or period (.), only one dot, and that one to separate the file name and extension, space (spacebar), tab (tab key), <Enter> or <Return> key, $, !, `, ", /, \, * or #. there may be others as well! It is a good idea to stick to letters and numbers. In this convention, filenames are not case sensitive; that is, a.bat and A.BAT refer to the same file.