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If you have FTP access to your blog (or an external FTP server) you can use it to upload images and other files. The information you have to enter here is basically the same you already entered in your FTP client. Following an example: |
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Host |
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Name of the FTP server without any additional prefix or suffix. |
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Port |
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This depends on the server, default value is 21. |
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Timeout |
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The number of seconds that BlogDesk will wait for a response before failing the operation. |
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Login |
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The username to be used to authenticate to the FTP server. This is the same username you entered in your FTP client to access the blog directories. |
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Password |
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The password to be used to authenticate to the FTP server. This is the same password you entered in your FTP client to access the blog directories. |
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Account |
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This field normaly can be empty. |
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Upload Path |
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The Upload Path is the path/folder on the server where the files are uploaded to (i.e. the destination directory). When the blog system wants to display an image it will look in this directory for the image file. Even if it's only one path, the FTP server and the blog system both have a different 'view' at it. That makes configuration a bit complicated. |
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FTP |
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The name of the directory used for uploading images (relative to the FTP host). |
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The easiest way to find out the name of the directory is to login with your FTP client and go to the directory where your blog system is located. This is the directory you created or chose when you installed the blog system on your server. If you use WordPress you will find a sub-directory wp-content, many bloggers even create an additional sub-directory only for images. No matter how it's called, when you go to this directory, your FTP client will display its whole name somewhere on the screen. Just copy this name to BlogDesk. |
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If your blog is hosted by a service like blogg.de, you normally won't have access to a FTP server. But you still can upload your images to a different FTP server, maybe even your online provider offers free FTP space. Or you can use the DirectUpload. |
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Blog |
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Here you have to enter the name of the upload directory as well, but this time relative to the Blog host. |
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The name of the directory corresponds to the name you entered in the FTP field, but it probably won't be exactly the same. Because the blog system has a different 'view' on the directory structure, normally only the end of the paths will be the same. For example, the FTP directory |
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/html/blogs/myblog/wp-content/images/ |
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/wp-content/images/ |
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in the eyes of the blog, and this would be the name to enter here. |
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If you upload your images to a different FTP server which has nothing to do with the blog system, just enter the complete Web address of the directory where the files can be retrieved. If you have e.g. a FTP account on a Lycos server, the address of the directory could look like this: |
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Connection |
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Select the Type of the connetion. If you choose a Secure Connection you normally must change the Port accordingly (default would be 990). |
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If you are behind a firewall and notice problems connecting to the server, activating the Passive Mode option may help. |
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Test |
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Here you can test if the data for the FTP account and the Upload Path is correct. |
