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FTP Retirement

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Introduction
For security reasons, FTP connections to Veritas and Champion will not be available after May 15th, 2006. If you have been using FTP clients to upload web files to your Veritas/Champion account, it is necessary for you to use an alternate method.

Due to this FTP retirement, the following FTP programs and web publishing programs which rely on FTP will be impacted. Please note that the list below is not all inclusive.

  • FTP Tools - FTP, WS_FTP, and Hummingbird FTP for Windows; Transmit and Fetch for Mac
  • Macromedia Dreamweaver, before MX 2004
  • Macromedia HomeSite
  • Microsoft FrontPage
  • Netscape Composer

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Alternatives to FTP
1. SFTP

I. For Windows

IU students, faculty, and staff can download SFTP client from IUware Online. This IU Webmaster document, How to download Secure Shell (SSH), provides you with step-by-step instructions on how to download Secure Shell File Transfer Program client. Please note that SFTP is bundled with SSH.

This IU Webmaster document, How to use SFTP, provides you with step-by-step instructions on how to use SFTP.

II. For Mac

This KB document, In Mac OS and Mac OS X, what secure FTP clients are available?, tells you what SFTP clients are available for Mac and where you can download them.

2. Web publishing tools

If you are currently using Dreamweaver before MX 2004, HomeSite, FrontPage, or other publishing tools that rely on FTP, you can keep using these to design your pages. However, you need to save your files to a directory on your hard drive, and then use an SFTP client to transfer your files to the server.

For information on how to save your files (set up a new web folder) to a directory on your hard drive for FrontPage, Dreamweaver before MX 2004, and Netscape Composer, please see this KB article at http://kb.iu.edu/data/akrd.html.

For information on how to use SFTP, please see How to use SFTP.

3. Use SFTP with Dreamweaver MX 2004/Dreamweaver 8 and Contribute 3

Dreamweaver MX 2004/Dreamweaver 8 and Contribute 3 support secure FTP (SFTP) and you can upload your files directly to the server. To use the built-in SFTP capabilities of Dreamweaver and Contribute, you need to configure the client to use SFTP.

Please see How to configure Dreamweaver MX 2004 to use with SFTP for Windows for information on how to configure Dreamweaver for Windows and How to configure Dreamweaver MX 2004 to use with SFTP for Mac for information on how to configure Dreamweaver for Mac.

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