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Filezilla is one of the best FTP client in the world. What is FTP? FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. This protocol handles file transfer between the server and the client. Filezilla is a software that helps you to download or upload files from the local site to the remote site. Filezilla is actually an open source project. You can have Filezilla freely without any costs. You just download it from the source and you are free to install it on your machine.
Filezilla is often used by many webmasters to maintain their websites. It is rich in features and easy to use. What kind of features does it have, let’s have a look :
- Easy to use
- Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
- Cross-platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X and more
- Pv6 support
- Available in many languages
- Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB
- Tabbed user interface
- Powerful Site Manager and transfer queue
- Bookmarks
- Drag & drop support to download and upload files
- Configurable transfer speed limits
- Filename filters
- Directory comparison
- Network configuration wizard
- Remote file editing
- Keep-alive
- HTTP/1.1, SOCKS5 and FTP-Proxy support
- Logging to file
- Synchronized directory browsing
- Remote file search
One of advantages I love the most is that Filezilla is free! Yes, as I said before. I also like the fact that it’s cross platform. It can be run on a machine that has different operating system. I have both Ms. Windows and Linux installed in my machine. So, I think Filezilla is the perfect FTP client for me.
Drag and drop support is also very useful. In order to upload files from local machine to the remote site, all we have to do just drag and drop. It really save my time.
Another cool feature is Filezilla supports SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP). Filezilla client can connect to the FTP server with a secure FTP connection. This is important for you if you maintain a big website. You don’t want any arbitrary people sniffing or hijacking your FTP connection when you’re maintaining your own website.
How do we use it? Well, it’s quite easy. All you need are your own website, internet connection, and the Filezilla FTP client. First thing to do is installing it on your machine. After installing it, let’s connect to your website. Before connecting to your FTP server on your website, you should gather information about your own FTP connection. The most important information is your username, password, and of course the port number(default port 21).
Here’s the main picture of Filezilla FTP client :
As you can see, there are several sub windows but don’t be confused. Below are the explanation of sub windows :
This part is like a Windows explorer but very simple. You can browse your local files and everything you want to upload to your website.
This part is the file explorer on the remote site. Usually, there will be a directory called “public_html” or “www”. You’ll want to upload your files into these folders so that your web visitors could access your files.
This the bar where you type your FTP information such us the host, username, password, and the port. The box below the bar is used to display information about occurring event e.g. when you connect to an FTP server, it will display what kind of process happening at the time.
This is the screenshot when Filezilla FTP client connect to an FTP server successfully
As you can see, the remote site explorer is now displaying the file structure of the web. Well, i did this example offline so this kind of file structure is totally different with the real web file structure. FYI, sometimes, you lost your connection when you’re not doing anything with Filezilla. It’s natural don’t be panic. You could just simply press Ctrl + R button combination to reconnect to the FTP server.
How to upload our local files onto remote sites? It’s really simple. You just drag the files from the local site to the remote site and just wait for the application to finish the upload process. The same rule works when you want to download files from the remote site. Drag the files you want and drop it on the local machine explorer.
Editing remote site files is also very easy. Right click on the file and choose “View/Edit”.
The file content will suddenly appear on the monitor and you can start your editing. When you choose “View/Edit” file, Filezilla actually download the chosen file and place it into temporary files directory. After that, you can do your editing of just viewing it. After you save the edited files, Filezilla will ask you whether you want to upload the last edited file or not.
When you’re finished with your web maintaining session, you just simply press Ctrl + D or the disconnect button in the toolbar to disconnect your current connection.
If you’re interested in using Filezilla FTP client, you can download it from
http://filezilla-project.org/download.php.
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