how to copy one folder to server

Question

i want to copy one folder to server using terminal... iwant to copy datatable folder to server... it like this:

copy from
user: /home/qa/html/datatable
to
server: www/html

how to do that...i'm new about this..i try like this:

1> qa@qadesktop2:~$ ftp 10230.35.211
2> fill password
3> ftp>cd www/html
4> ftp>mput
   (local-files)/home/qa/html/dataTable-1.6/*

Answer 1

You may want to use a graphical ftp client such as filezilla. This would be way easier for you if you have a graphical desktop.

filezilla

Answer 2

LFTP and NcFTP can both be used to push files to a FTP server.

Answer 3

Here is a tutorial which gives you the command you have to use for upload,

ftp tutorial