Publish to a Web Site using Ftp

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If you wish to publish to a web site that is not running on Azure and does not support IIS Web Deploy, you can create an Ftp Publishing Target to publish using Ftp.

In order to publish using Ftp, your web hosting provider must support Ftp. You will need to contact your web hosting provider for Ftp server and login details.

Creating an Ftp Publishing Target

In the HelpStudio Build Profile Editor, select the Publishing page;
Click the New toolbar button;
On the displayed New Publishing Target dialog, choose the Ftp option;
A new Ftp Publishing Target will be created and selected for edit;
Complete the connection and login fields with the values provided by your web hosting provider for ftp upload.

The Target Url field is the url at which the content is located once it has been deployed. This setting is not required for successful publishing, but it will allow the publishing results to show a convenient link to open the published content once the publishing is complete.

Note: Only specify the root url and not the landing page - i.e. http://myhost.mydomain.com/ and not http://myhost.mydomain.com/webframe.html