Publishing a Site to FTP
You can publish and upload your site to FTP directly from A4DeskPro. It is
easy, simple and convenient.
To Open the Publish and Upload to FTP
- Click the FTP
button or click the Publish
and Upload to FTP
button on the Toolbar or select Publish to
FTP from the File menu. The
Default FTP Settings dialog is displayed. You
can also set the default FTP settings by selecting FTP
Settings from the Options menu.
Note: If you have not put in the FTP information, the Default FTP Settings
dialog will pop up automatically. You can also open this dialog by clicking
FTP Settings from the Options menu.
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You can choose an upload option :
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Put in the FTP information under the Default FTP Settings (FTP Host/
Login/ Password/ Default Host Directory) and then click Test Connection to test the connection. The Test Connection Result will be shown on the bottom. When the connection is successful, click OK.
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For Default Host Directory field, this is to fill in the server root directory path. Normally, it will be "/" or "/htdocs/" or "/public_html/" or "/var/www/html/". However, some share webhosting may use the username or domain name as the path for easy management, you should check this out with your webhosting company and ask them to give you the full path to your root directory.
e.g. Yahoo Web Hosting will like "/{username}/".
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In some case, you may still fail in uploading, this may due to your webhosting server limitation, some webhosting may have limit in creating folder, 2MB limit for each file, or filename naming, in that case, you should contact your webhosting company about this issue and ask for solution.
A4DeskPro Built-in FTP wizard
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Once you can connect your FTP server, the Publish To FTP dialog
opens.

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You can select the remote folder
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Click Upload to upload your files to web server.
- Once you can upload the files successfully, it will tell you
"Upload Complete".

- Click Close to return.
Windows FTP (require installation of MSIE 5.x or 6.x)
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You can use the Internet Explorer's FTP feature to upload files (Note:
It requires IE 5.x or 6.x)

- You can find all your existing FTP files on the left window.
- Select files you want to upload on the right and drag them
to the left.
- After upload is completed, click Return to A4DeskPro
button to return.
External FTP software
1. You can choose your own FTP software by clicking Browse
button and click OK.
2. It will start the choosen FTP software automatically.
Necessary file when upload manually using 3rd party FTP software
1. index.html
2. index.swf
3. index.xml
4. AC_RunActiveContent.js
5. a4content (whole folder)
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