Overview

Transmit is a Mac OS X application used for FTP and SFTP. The first thing you'll need to do is download a copy of Transmit at http://www.panic.com/transmit/. Please follow the installation steps to install the application on your computer.

The following tutorial is provided as a courtesy to our customers to help you configure your ftp software to work with (mt) Media Temple's hosting solutions.

Third-party software can not be supported directly by (mt) Media Temple. If you have further questions about configuring Transmit, please visit http://www.panic.com/transmit/support.html.

Requirements

Before you start, be sure you have these handy:

• Server name: Your access domain or example.com. example.com or your IP address.
• Username: Your primary domain or FTP username.
• Username: Your FTP username.
• Password: Your FTP password.

Please see FTP and SFTPFTP and SFTP to learn how to find these settings.

Instructions

The following instructions create your FTP connection as a favorite.

1. Launch Transmit.
2. Click on the plus "+" symbol to begin, see Figure 1.

   
   Figure 1.

3. Enter the settings for your server, see Figure 2 as an example:

   
   Figure 2.

   • Nickname: example.com or s00000.gridserver.com
   • Nickname: example.com or your IP address
4. Under More Options:
   • Port: 21 for FTP, 22 for SFTP
   • Please check "Use passive mode."
   • Root URL: s00000.gridserver.com
   • Root URL: example.com or your IP address
   • Remote Path (optional): /domains/example.com/html/ httpdocs/
   • Local URL (optional): Optional.
5. Click "Save" button to save this under your Favorites.

Resources

• Transmit Homepage
• Transmit Support