How to post to the gibson web server
- Fire up your preferred FTP client (Filezilla is a free and cross platform)
- Enter the following information:
- Host/Server: gibson.rit.edu
- Username: your abc1234 id
- Password: your RIT password
- Port: SFTP (or 22)
- Click the Connect button or similar to connect to gibson.
- Upload your files to the
www
folder or a sub-directory of www
- Set the file permissions to
644
for files and 755
for folders. You can usually do this by
right-clicking on each file and choosing "properties" or "permissions"
- Be sure to confirm that your files have been properly posted by pointing a browser at
http://people.rit.edu/abc1234
- note that www
is NOT in the URL.