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Hello my fellow students, peers and “peeps”:

Yes all the Alex Jeffreys students are coming together to become this insane Affilliate Super Power! MuHa Ha…okay, now on to more grow up stuff:

I’ve read some posts on some of the Student blogs. Many people are having challenges with their FTP client. To my surprise I haven’t used a FTP client yet. But I have used the File Manger at HostGator. I’ve scratched together a few notes below hope they help:

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File Manager @ Host Gator

I’m hosting with HostGator and I load all my file through the control panel. It’s really simple. If you are hosting at the same place:

1) On your HostGator control panel you’ll see a section named “Files” , there you can click on File Manager. It should open in a new Tab or Window.

2) On the left you will see several folders. The one that is viewed by the public is called “public_html”. That’s the folder where you would need load your files.

3) Make sure that you create and copy all the sub-folders with the same name as what Alex had saved them as.

1) To create a new folder you can click on the “+ New Folder” icon on the top menu bar.

2) Once you create the new folder, (a new folder in the server world is called a directory) double click on it to make sure you’re in that directory and then click on  “Upload” to transfer the file. Once you click Upload, a new tab or window will open with several “browse” buttons. Click on the first one and find the file you have saved on your local computer. You can respectively load all the appropriate files (just remember to be in the right folder!)

I’m not much of a techie. Let me say that again I’M NOT A TECHIE. But via trial and error find out how to get things done the easiest way possible (And if you didn’t go to A+ Class that’s the only way to do it!).

One of the biggest challenges are file names.

Make sure that the name that you have in your link. Is the EXACT same in your server or FTP. That’s why you get the 404 File Not Found error. Some servers are really picky even capital letters or lower case letters matter.

I hope this helps. Ha! I hope your hosting with HostGator. But I’m sure on the most part all hosting companies provide a file manager.

Let me know if it helped!

To your success!

Nadeem Ahmad

www.affillions.com

www.buildasuperlist.com

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