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Uploading and Downloading Files for www.upenn.edu

Files that are served up by www.upenn.edu are actually housed on the server origin.www.upenn.edu.

Access to your files on origin.www.upenn.edu is via FTP (File Transfer Protocol). This means that you would create your HTML documents on another computer and then FTP them up to origin.www.upenn.edu. This process requires the use of a Kerberos-compliant FTP client.

Steps needed:
  1. obtain and install a Kerberos-compliant FTP client
  2. Create your HTML document(s).
  3. FTP to origin.www.upenn.edu
  4. If prompted for your login ID, type in your PennKey and password.
  5. Once logged on, you need to change to the "html" directory and then to the subdirectory for which you have write permissions. When you change to "html", you will see the list of all directories on www.upenn.edu but you can only see the actual files in subdirectories for which you have write permissions.
  6. You can now FTP your HTML files up.
Please note, that our access system will not grant access to any subdirectory or individual file that is not world-readable. If you have questions about setting permissions on files as your transfer them with FTP, please contact your local support provider.

Supported FTP client software can be downloaded from the supported product web site.

Uploading and Downloading Files for secure.www.upenn.edu

The above instructions also pertain to maintaining pages on secure.www.upenn.edu but the starting filepath will be
/usr/local/ftp/html-ssl
If your site is:
http://www.upenn.edu/testsite/
Your filepaths would be:
public content: /usr/local/ftp/html/testsite
secure content: /usr/local/ftp/html-ssl/testsite
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