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concrete5 Beginner's Guide

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concrete5 Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
concrete5
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – transferring files to the server


Carry out the following steps:

  1. Open your FTP client and connect to the new server using the credentials you received from your hosting partner.

  2. Navigate to c:\xampplite\htdocs\ and select all the files in that directory. Drag them to the right pane or select Upload to start the process, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Once all the files have been uploaded, it will probably take a while, so you might want to set the file system permissions.

What just happened?

We uploaded all the files from concrete5, as well as our own files added to the website to the new server by using FileZilla.

Due to the fact that concrete5 contains a lot of files, it took a long time to upload all of them. Even a very fast Internet connection won't change a lot. The FTP protocol has some overhead on every file transferred to the server making the process slow as soon as you transfer lots of single files.

If you can extract a ZIP archive or something similar on your...