def uploadFile(self, localPathAndFilename, ixLoadSvrPathAndFilename, overwrite=True):
        """
        Description
           For Linux server only.  You need to upload the config file into the Linux
           server location first: /mnt/ixload-share 

        Parameters
           localPathAndFilename:     The config file on the local PC path to be uploaded.
           ixLoadSvrPathandFilename: Default path on the Linux REST API server is '/mnt/ixload-share'
                                     Ex: '/mnt/ixload-share/IxL_Http_Ipv4Ftp_vm_8.20.rxf'

        Notes
           To log into IxLoad Linux gateway API server, password:ixia123
           To view or set the IP address, open a terminal and enter: ip address 
        """
        url = self.httpHeader+'/api/v0/resources'
        headers = {'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data'}
        params = {'overwrite': overwrite, 'uploadPath': ixLoadSvrPathAndFilename}

        self.logInfo('\nUploadFile: {0} file to {1}...'.format(localPathAndFilename, ixLoadSvrPathAndFilename))
        self.logInfo('\n\tPOST: {0}\n\tDATA: {1}\n\tHEADERS: {2}'.format(url, params, self.jsonHeader))
        try:
            with open(localPathAndFilename, 'rb') as f:
                response = requests.post(url, data=f, params=params, headers=headers, verify=self.verifySsl)
                if response.status_code != 200:
                    raise IxLoadRestApiException('uploadFile failed', response.json()['text'])

        except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError as e:
            raise IxLoadRestApiException(
                'Upload file failed. Received connection error. One common cause for this error is the size of the file to be uploaded.'
                ' The web server sets a limit of 1GB for the uploaded file size. Received the following error: %s' % str(e)
            )

        except IOError as e:
            raise IxLoadRestApiException('Upload file failed. Received IO error: %s' % str(e))

        except Exception:
            raise IxLoadRestApiException('Upload file failed. Received the following error: %s' % str(e))

        else:
            self.logInfo('Upload file finished.')