Lesson 7 - Publish to an FTP Server

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Lesson 7 - Publish to an FTP Server

Your web site is not much good if people can't see it! For people to see it, it has to be on a web server somewhere. The Publish command copies all the final folders onto your web server. Most web servers are set up to use the Internet standard FTP protocol to upload files; CityDesk has FTP support built in.

CityDesk can also publish your site by copying files to a network share or to a location on your own hard drive. Then it can automatically run any external program to upload the files to your web server.

  Click on the Publish tool in the toolbar or select File » Publish.

Publish

This will bring up the Publishing window. Since this is your first time publishing to an FTP server you need to tell CityDesk where you want to publish the site. From the Publish window:

  Click on Edit Locations... button (you must be in Designer Mode to see this button).

  Click on Add button

  Set up publishing options (via a wizard):

  For the method, select FTP (you can also publish by just copying the files to a folder, locally or on the network)

  Enter the server information (server name, username, password, subdirectory, and the URL) for your web server

  For Template Family click Next.

  For Select Language click Next.

  For Target Audience click Next.

Template, Language and Target Audience are more advanced features described elsewhere in the documentation.

  Give the location a meaningful name, like "asdfasdf", and click Finish.

  Close the Publish Locations window.

You can create as many publish locations as you need with different names. For example, if you have a web server in France and another one in the United States, you can set up a separate publish location for each one. Or, for example, your might set up two publish locations if you maintain an internal web server for testing and an outside web server for the final web site.

  In the main Publish window, choose the publish location you just created (asdfasdf?) and click on the Publish button.

CityDesk will generate the HTML files and transfer them over to the server.

Now that you've set everything up, in the future you can publish to this FTP server with a single click on the publish icon in the toolbar.

  Next: Lesson 8 - Editing from Your Web Browser

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