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More information is available for system administrators in the System Administrators Guide.
Tools
You will need two tools: a text editor, in order to edit text files, and a FTP client, in order to transfer files from your machine to your server.
Text editor
Here are a few well-known text editors:
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Note: do NOT use a word processor, such as Microsoft Word or OpenOffice.org Write when editing text files.
FTP client
FTP is short for "File Transfer Protocol", meaning the standard way used to transfer files from a computer to a web-host.
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