How To Upload Your Website Using Filezilla

If you are ready to set-up and start using your Filezilla FTP Uploader Client; then you must read this.

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This tutorial will show you how to use Filezilla to upload your content to your website easily. Filezilla is free and Open-source (GNU GPL) software to use.

How To Upload Your Website Content Using Filezilla

Note: Before you can use Filezilla, you must have downloaded and install it on your computer, if you have not downloaded and install it please Click Here to do so.

After successful installation, follow the below steps to upload your content

1. Start Filezilla

2. Enter your credentails as below
At the box written Host: put www.yourdomainname.com not http://www.yourdomainname.com or http://yourdomainname.com
If your domain is qualityhostingserver.com, in the host field, put www.qualityhostingserver.com not http://www.qualityhostingserver.com or http://qualityhostingserver.com
on the box written username: put the username which was sent when you bought your web hosting
on the next box written password: put the password that was sent to you when you bought your hosting plan
on the box written Port: pls leave this blank
After doing the above, click on the botton written Quickconnect

3. You might see a dialog box with the below message
Unknown Certificate
This server's certificate is unknown, please carefully examine the certificate to make sure the server can be trusted.

Details
Subject of Certificate
Certificate Issuer
Session Details

Trust this certificate and carry on connecting?
Under this heading, click on the box that says always trust certificate in future sessions

Then click on OK to connect, you will see the below messages in the open top box

Status:    Resolving address of www.qualityhostingserver.com
Status:    Connecting to 192.138.19.32:21...
Status:    Connection established, waiting for welcome message...
Status:    Initializing TLS...
Status:    Verifying certificate...
Status:    TLS connection established.
Status:    Connected
Status:    Retrieving directory listing...
Status:    Directory listing of "/" successful

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You will see your server listing

From there you can navigate to where ever you want to go in your wen hostng account

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