Instructions
for
Updating Web Server windofkeltia

Users of web server windofkeltia must move to a new server, as it’s been upgraded from NetWare to SuSE Linux. I have created new users, but you must set up DNS to it and copy your content to the appropriate place on the new server.

A few things have changed...

For one thing, I’ll no longer support ftp, file transfer protocol, access to my web servers for security reasons. This is an ancient protocol that isn’t very secure.

Here are instructions for starting to maintain your web pages on the intermediate server. You will need to use a new protocol for copying your web domain files over to the server. I suggest scp, or secure copy protocol, which requires special software that is free and easier to use than your old ftp anyway if you get the software I recommend here.

In the text and examples below, replace keltia with windofkeltia since I am no longer using my keltia box as an intermediate host for serving up web pages. The new server is already up, running and in use.


Down-loading and Installalling WinSCP Login

Launch a browser on the URL http://winscp.net/eng/index.php. Click on the Download link in the orange links bar to the download page...

Instead of clicking on the Standalone application link I show here under WinSCP File Downloads, choose the top link, Installation package. This instruction was in error when I first wrote these quick start instructions.

Also, the name of the downloading executable will not be winscp403.exe, but something else. You should save this inside your usual Downloads folder. If you don’t have one, I suggest creating a new folder at the root of your C: drive on Windows named Downloads. Then you can easily launch any installation from there using Start -> Run... -> Browse... and then go find that folder and the installation program inside it.

Save the file to wherever you put your downloads and launch it in your customary manner to begin the installation.

Proceed through installation dialogs as for other software:


Before Running WinSCP The First Time

Before running WinSCP, place a DNS entry into your Windows hosts file either by opening a DOS command window and going to it as shown here or by launching Notepad and navigating to the hosts file on this path.

Here’s the entry to add: 


	66.7.114.165         windofkeltia windofkeltia.com

Use the blue numbers in place of the one originally in this image (don’t use 24.10.162.248). Save this file just as for any other file you edit using Notepad and exit Notepad. Doing this more or less DOS operation will save you some trouble in the long run.


Running WinSCP for The First Time

Launching WinSCP and fill in the edit fields marked with a red X thus, except use windofkeltia in place of keltia. Choose Save... and click OK twice. The reason you can use the final server name is because in the previous step using Notepad, we told your computer to think the name of the new one is windofkeltia which it will be after we finish making the switch. In the meantime, it doesn’t matter that this isn’t strictly true.

Important note: To save me from having to re-dump all these images, every time you see keltia in an image, please substitute windofkeltia.com.

In the examples here, I’m using sup, but your username (and domain name) will be different. Use that instead everywhere you see sup here.

You end up with a dialog that looks like this. The next time you launch WinSCP, you won’t have to type in this information again and you can add new sites you manage by clicking on the red-circled button. We will not do this here, but the procedure is the same as for the first time.

For now, click on Login at the bottom of the dialog...

Click on Yes...

You should now have a new File Explorer-style window on your desktop showing what’s in /home/sup on my web server. Double-click the public_html folder: this is where you’ll always put your web documents starting with index.html.



Running WinSCP to Transfer Files

Now let’s copy some files over. Open My Computer on your local Windows workstation and navigate to where you maintain your website. Here, I’ve clicked and dragged to select all the files I want to move over to the new server; after selecting them, I just drag them over and drop them in the public_html folder on sup@windofkeltia.

Note: if you wish to see any of these larger images at full scale, just click on it.

I can just click on Copy here if I want...

...or I can click on More (underlined above) and get lots of cool, helpful options for the future like automatically changing the case of my filenames to lower (better for this new web server since it’s running Linux) and telling the copy program to copy new and more recent files only (and not just all of them). This latter option is excellent for maintaining large web sites with lots of pages, images, etc. There is no reason to copy over everything fresh every time.