Transferring Web Galleries

To view your web gallery on the Internet, it needs to be published from your local workstation to a public web server. Sometimes, your Internet Service Provider (ISP) provides free web space as part of your monthly access charges. Otherwise, you will have to arrange web space with one of many web-hosting providers.

Registered StudioLine users receive free web space to test the web gallery features for a limited time.

StudioLine uses the universally supported “FTP” (File Transfer Protocol) for uploading your files to the web server. It is strongly recommend that you let StudioLine perform the uploading. StudioLine has built-in validation to confirm that all new or updated components of your web gallery are uploaded successfully.

Click “Transfer” on the QuickStep Bar.

Publishing Profile

The “Edit Profile” panel opens – either as an empty form or with the information you had previously entered. The information in the publishing profile enables StudioLine to contact the web server and transfer a gallery.

StudioLine Photo Edition uses the same publishing profile for all of your web galleries.

Profile Information

The information for the publishing profile has to be obtained from the provider of your web space.

Usually, you’ll only need to fill in the FTP Server, Login/User, Password and the “Root URL”. The remaining fields can remain at their default values.

If your provider does not specify a separate FTP server, then it may be the domain name of your web site (e.g., “www.YourDomain.com”) and the URL of the web site root would be “http://www.YourDomain.com”.

To upload your pages to specific folders on your FTP server, specify the “Remote Directory”. If the FTP folder translates to a corresponding folder on your web space, then append the folder name to the URL of the web site following a forward slash, e.g. a remote directory of “MyFolder” would be represented in the URL as “http://www.YourDomain.com/MyFolder”.

The name of the “Default Document” is server-specific, usually “default.htm”, “index.htm” or “index.html” and can be obtained from your web-hosting provider. StudioLine requires this name to generate proper names for your pages. If you are unable to obtain the name, StudioLine will attempt to determine that name for you while testing the publishing profile (see below).

The number of “Maximum Concurrent Connections” tells StudioLine, how many parallel FTP sessions it may open in an attempt to maximize bandwidth and reduce total upload times (possibly reducing your connection fees.) Some providers do not permit more than one connection. StudioLine will attempt to determine the maximum number while testing the publishing profile.

Sometimes, workstations are running behind firewalls or have personal firewall software installed to avoid intrusions by unauthorized parties. Depending on the firewall technology and configuration, it may be necessary to specify a “Proxy Server”, a “Port” or to select the option “Passive”. Your local system administrator will be able to assist you with the correct configuration.

After filling in the profile, click the “Test” button. StudioLine will connect to your web server and verify your settings and make any corrections as needed. If the test fails and StudioLine cannot determine the correct settings, then an error message will indicate the specific circumstances.

It is possible, that your web server requires less common settings for “Remote Directory”, “Root URL” and “Default Document”, which differ from the above examples. In that case, you will need to contact your web-hosting provider for the correct information.

To return to the Image Archive, click the appropriate button on the QuickStep Bar, or, click the drop-down list “Page Editor” between the menu and tool bars and select “Image Archive”.