An FTP utility will only connect to web servers. The customer will have to e-mail the files to you or you could have an actual FTP location set up on your server that they could connect to. A web site developer can do this for you. There is no file size limitation with FTP. Your designer probably set up an http file upload script. That is not an FTP upload. The programming language probably has a file size limitation built into it for security, because you would not want to allow a user to upload twenty 100 meg files.

The default maximum upload file size can be changed on most web sites by altering or overriding the server configuration. If you have a PHP web site, the default file upload limitation is usually 2 megabytes, but that does not have anything to do with FTP. There are several methods for increasing the upload file size limitation. If you have a PHP site, look into upload_max_filesize.

There won’t be anything on the remote server unless you have already copied something to the server, or if a web site already exists on the server. Make sure that you are in the right directory before you copy files to the server. The information that you received when you set up the hosting should tell you the name of the root directory. Not all servers are configures to start you out in the root directory when you connect.

I think the file size for your video is way too large to be practical for a web site. It will not just automatically run after you copy it to the server. If you want to view it in a browser, you will need to have a viewer set up on a web page. Otherwise, you will probably only be able to download the video. I suggest that you set up a free YouTube account and upload the video to their site. They automatically convert videos to a Flash FLV format and optimize and resize it for the web. Their file size limit is 2 gigabytes, which means that you should be able to upload you video. The best part is that is its free and does not require technical skills.

YouTube Help.

But there’s nothing there.

Back in April, someone else suggested a similar problem, and you said this:

“You have to be connected to a server before you will see folders on the right, Or you could be connected to a directory that does not have subfolders.

“If you are sure that you are connected, you may have accidentally toggled the subfolders off. Check the FileZilla tool bar. There are two button icons that display directory trees, The one on the right toggles the display of the remote directory tree.”

I must be connected — FileZilla says “Directory listing successful.”

Toggling the button for the remote directory tree just collpases and opens up a second empty file area. There’s definitely no population of anything at all in the two areas, except an empty file folder icon in each.

I’m truly stalemated.

What I had really hoped for was to finally be able to upload a couple of very large video files that my wife took in Thailand last year — both are too large for any free media hosting sites. One of them is about 43 minutes long, and 1.51 gigabytes.

That’s the annoying thing about a .pdf tutorial — there is no avenue for seeking help when problems crop up, or the reader/student meets with what seems like obscure instruction.

If you just wait until it reconnects FileZilla should pick up where it left off. At least that is the way it works when I see a timeout or a disconnect.

I’m having problems restarting stalled files. I’m trying to send some video files to England that are approximately 4GB. The internet connection where I am is average at best and keeps cutting out. Is there a way of restarting the download from the point it stopped, rather than having to restart from the begining?

The host is the site’s domain name (not the entire URL), such as mydomain.com.

I need a little help setting up FileZilla. I entered the following information:

Host: ********
Port: 21
Servertype: FTP File Transfer Protocol
Logontype: Normal
User: *******
Password **********
…

But what i think i did wrong was my host. What is a host?

There is not enough information to tell what you might be doing wrong, but it sounds like you are connecting to the wrong directory on the server. Some hosting configurations have directories that mirror the live site. Make sure you are connecting to the correct directory on your server.

Thanks,
Kris