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Uploading Drupal with SFTP

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Uploading Drupal with SFTP

We've already installed Drupal on our local computer-- that is, our desktop or laptop. Now we're going to install it on a remote computer that is a server from which other people would be able to see your site. I have to warn you that this is more difficult than installing it on your local computer; in fact, there are myriad ways that it can be done. I'm going to show you two. In this video, I'll show you how to do it using an FTP program. In another video, I'll show you how to do it using an SSH program, which is a command-line interface. I've already set up where I'm going to put my site. This is on a host called webenabled.net, although you could use whatever web host to like. I've also set up a site where it's going to go. It's at this twotrs.dev3.webenabled.net. And if we click there, we see there is just a simple page there right now. The FTP program I'm going to use is called FileZilla. You can download it yourself at filezilla-project.org, or you can use any other FTP program…

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