Publishing to FTP Server

To put your Web Page on the Internet, all files that the page contains must be transfered to your Web server.
Actual Drawing connects to FTP server and uploads all the page files to a folder on the FTP server.

What is FTP?

FTP is an acronym for File Transfer Protocol. As the name implies, FTP is used to transfer files between computers on a network, such as the Internet. In an FTP transfer, your computer acts as a "client" sending a files to a remote host, or "server". Even computers from different manufacturers and running incompatible software can use this FTP process to exchange files over the Internet. To establish a connection to an FTP server, you generally need to provide a user name and a password in addition to the Internet address of the server (for example, hostname.berkeley.edu); someone would need to set up a user account and assign a password for you before you would be able to access the server.

To publish Web Page to FTP server

1. Click Publish to FTP server from the File menu.
2. The Publishing Settings dialog box appears.
3. Type name of FTP host in the Addres of FTP Server box.
4. Type user (login) name for the server in the User Name box.
5. Type password for the server in the Password box.
6. Type folder path in the Remote Folder box. Actual Drawing will upload files to this folder.
7. Specify remote port number in the FTP port box, if it's not 21 for your server. It may be different if you are going through a firewall, or if the site administrator has assigned the FTP service to a non-standard port.
8. Click Ok.
9. Information about the publishing results is displayed in the Publishing Log panel.