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CGI and
FTP
Final Steps in Web Design
CGI
Not a language
Simple protocol that can be used to
communicate between web forms and your programs
Can be written in any programming
language
Structure
Typical sequence
Read the user’s form input
Do what you want with the data
Write the HTML response to the user
Resources
http://www.cgi-resources.com
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi
http://www.itm.com/cgicollection/
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/backend/backend_more.html
Tutorials
http://www.jmarshall.com/easy/cgi/
http://www.drclue.net/F1.cgi/HTML/CGI/CGI.html
Guide to CGI
http://snowwhite.it.brighton.ac.uk/~mas/mas/courses/html/html.html
That’s it!!!
Many scripts to choose from for free on
the web
This is a standard (common) way of
communicating (interface) between different processes (gateways)
Common Interface Gateway (CGI)
FTP
File Transfer Protocol
What you must know
The web address of your ftp server
The user login name
The user login password
Most web hosts will provide this
information when you sign up for a space on the FTP server
What you need???
Some files to transfer
An FTP program
Free popular programs
Cuteftp
Ws-ftp
Both available at http://www.tucows.com
How do you do it???
Log in to your host
You must have an active Internet
connection before beginning the transfer
Open you ftp program
On one side will be the location of the
files you want to transfer
On the other side will be your web host
files
Drag and Drop
Just drag the files you want to
transfer
OR
Identify the files you want to transfer
and select Transfer from the menu
(Depends on which ftp program you use)
Your files are transferred
Go Live
Your site is live
Before you Go Live be sure
You have proofed your work
You have checked your links
You have everything in the same
folder
You have all your references noted on
your pages
So Let’s Go
You have all the tools
You have a great deal of knowledge
I look forward to seeing your final web
sites!
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