How to manage files with myru.radford.edu

1. Go to http://myru.radford.edu
2. Login with the same name and password you use for Radford e-mail (don't include "@radford.edu")
3. Click the "File" tab on the right.
• It may take a moment, if you have a slow connection, but you should see two windows on the screen, each showing a directory list of folders and documents: Local System on the left and Remote System on the right. "Local System" is the computer you are using at the moment -- at home, at the library, wherever. "Remote System" is your H drive.
• Under the directories are six control buttons that allow you to make a new directory (folder), rename something,  "trash" something, refresh, resume, upload (local to remote) or download (remote to local), or zip-compress a file for faster uploading.
• Between the two directory lists are two buttons marked ( > > ) (which copies from left to right -- from "Local System" to "Remote System") and ( < < ) (which copies from right to left). These perform the same functions as the green "upload" and "download" arrows beneath the directory lists.
4. To copy something from your computer to your H drive, navigate through the Local System list to open the folder you want to copy from.  (The folder icon with two dots after it allows you to move "up" to the folder containing the visible folders.)
5. Navigate through the Remote System list to open the folder you want to copy into. Click on that folder to open it. (Remember, only public Web pages should go in the folder named public_html. Keep private information out of that folder.)
6. In the Local System list, click the name of the document or folder you want to copy  into the Remote System. (You can use shift-click to select more than one file to copy.)
7. Click the left-to-right ( > > ) button or arrow.
8. Wait until you see the new item appear in the Remote System list. (If you have a lot of files, you may have to scroll the alphabetical list to find it.)
9. IF you get an "Unable to upload one or more files" error message, don't panic! It probably just means the portal has logged you out after the program's "idle" time limit. Just go back to myru.radford.edu and login again, then repeat the steps above.
10. When you're done, log out of the portal, especially if you are on a public-access computer in a lab. Otherwise someone else might access your files. (But if you're building a Web site, you're not done yet. Read on.)

World Wide Web Publishing: Setting "worldwide" viewer permissions

1. To publish something as a Web page, put it in your "public_html" folder using any of the methods mentioned above.
   • Your "home page" (such as http://www.radford.edu/rstepno) is always a document named "index.html" in the "public_html" folder.
   • The index.html file is what someone sees when they go to http://www.radford.edu/yourname (with "yourname" replaced by your e-mail name).
   • Within your Web site, you can have many folders, each with its own index.html document.
2. After you put an html document, picture, or other file in a public folder, you have one more thing to do to really make it public. This step is needed whether you put the material there with MyRU or by directly copying to the H drive.
3. From any MyRU portal page, click on the "My Accounts" tab to the left of "My Files"
4. In the "Quick Links" section on the right, click "Update Web Permissions," then click the button that says "Click here to set file permissions."
• Note: You only have to do this once, even if you have uploaded a number of documents. That one click resets the permissions for everything in your public_html folder and its subfolders.
• If you don't want something to be public, delete it or move it out of that folder.
5. When you're done, log out of the portal, especially if you are on a public-access computer in a lab. Otherwise someone else might access your files.