FTP Problems!!! Help

Kendo Nagasaki

Kendo Nagasaki

Kendo Nagasaki

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I'm looking to upload a website that i have recently created but i'm having a few difficulties. The host is BT (Connect) (Business) and i normally login to their website and use their ftp access but its really slow and totally useless.

So, i thought it would be easier to use a third party ftp software solution. I downloaded SmartFTP and gave it a go but i can't get connected no matter what i do.

I think the problem is the host name as i've entered the login and password correctly! I don't know what to enter here as i've tried a few combinations without any luck, such as:

ftp.mysite.com
ftp.btconnect.com

The message displays as: 'Unable to resolve host name'

Can anyone help or shed any light on my problem?

Thanks

*p.s - is it ok to have images within an images folder and then place your jpegs within that subfolder?

i.e:
- top level of file structure
- images folder
- jpegs folder
 
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Thanks for that marc2003, its good to know - however, i managed to get it to work without that address.

It turns out that: ftp.mysite.com is correct as when i tried it at home it worked. Must be the security on the servers within my workplace that was blocking it from connecting.

Also, it looks that having images within a multiple folder structure doesn't work, i had to put all my jpegs/gifs/etc within one images folder.
 
Kendo Nagasaki said:
Also, it looks that having images within a multiple folder structure doesn't work, i had to put all my jpegs/gifs/etc within one images folder.
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well that depends on how you build your website? :confused: you'd have to specify the path to the file in your html eg

Code: 
<img src="images/jpg/pic.jpg" />

or am i completely missing the point... :p
 
Thats exactly what i thought. I had it set-up as you have suggested and it worked while previewing locally but as soon as i uploaded the info it didn't work.

Could be something wrong at my end but i would have thought that if it previews ok, it should work when uploaded!!
 
Kendo Nagasaki said:
Thats exactly what i thought. I had it set-up as you have suggested and it worked while previewing locally but as soon as i uploaded the info it didn't work.

Could be something wrong at my end but i would have thought that if it previews ok, it should work when uploaded!!
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You must have something wrong. Make sure you're using <img src="folder/folder/image.jpg" /> and not <img="/folder/folder/image.jpg" />
 
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