{"id":8025,"date":"2022-10-12T11:59:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T11:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=8025"},"modified":"2024-06-07T13:02:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T13:02:47","password":"","slug":"how-to-upload-files-using-smartty","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/knowledge-base\/how-to-upload-files-using-smartty\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Upload Files Using SmarTTY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SmarTTY is a user friendly SSH terminal. It beats the rest because it allows you to view your folders in graphical format even though its an SSH client. SSH normally does not use graphical display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means SmarTTY makes the experience of uploading your website rather seamless. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This guide will show us how to upload files to a server via SmarTTY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1.Open SmarTTY and login to your VPS via SSH. You can use <a href=\"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/knowledge-base\/how-to-use-smartty-for-ssh-access\/\">this guide to login<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2.Open the folder that has your website files and <strong>SmarTTY<\/strong> side by side as show below<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/VirtualBox_windows_12_10_2022_14_45_55.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/VirtualBox_windows_12_10_2022_14_45_55.png 1024w, https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/VirtualBox_windows_12_10_2022_14_45_55-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/VirtualBox_windows_12_10_2022_14_45_55-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/VirtualBox_windows_12_10_2022_14_45_55-50x38.png 50w, https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/VirtualBox_windows_12_10_2022_14_45_55-920x690.png 920w, https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/VirtualBox_windows_12_10_2022_14_45_55-600x450.png 600w, https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/VirtualBox_windows_12_10_2022_14_45_55-320x240.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>3.Open the folder with your website files and Drag and Drop the website folder into your desired location. In this case, I desire to move the files into public_html folder. I will drag-and-drop as shown below<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"768\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1024 \/ 768;\" width=\"1024\" controls src=\"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/windows-screen0.webm\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As soon as the file transfer progress at the bottom shows a green tick, that means your upload is complete. Congratulations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SmarTTY is a user friendly SSH terminal. It beats the rest because it allows you to view your folders in graphical format even though its an SSH client. SSH normally does not use graphical display. This means SmarTTY makes the experience of uploading your website rather seamless. 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