Thanks to SB for saving my bacon

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First, thanks for making the ftp upload send the files as temporary then
renaming them. I put my new ftp site in the wrong place and it started
uploading to my old ftp site that my users go to get current updates...
I cancelled it before it started renaming the files and it's all good..
whew!

Second, I haven't done this in a while so I'm a bit confused. I got the
update to send the files to my new ftp server. I created an ftp account
which goes directly to a folder.. and my files uploaded no problem.

Now, to the web deployment screen in SB... I have a username and
password that should go directly to that folder/directory, so do I need
to put in a directory name?

Or, is it a username and password to the entire website.. also, how can
I test this? This is for the update install, not the entire install.

And, do I really need this in my update install?

Also, should I create a new guid for the product guid?

Thanks,

--
Ray Rippey
VMT Software

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One more thing.. this is a request... can we opt to turn off hiding the
username and passwords... just one more thing I have to go and lookup.

Thanks,

Ray

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Ray,

> First, thanks for making the ftp upload send the files as temporary then
> renaming them. I put my new ftp site in the wrong place and it started
> uploading to my old ftp site that my users go to get current updates... I
> cancelled it before it started renaming the files and it's all good..
> whew!

;-)

> Second, I haven't done this in a while so I'm a bit confused. I got the
> update to send the files to my new ftp server. I created an ftp account
> which goes directly to a folder.. and my files uploaded no problem.
>
> Now, to the web deployment screen in SB... I have a username and password
> that should go directly to that folder/directory, so do I need to put in a
> directory name?

Let us assume your web updates or web install files are located at:

http://www.yada.com/mysubfolder

Then you have to put in the "mysubfolder" directory name.

Please note that FTP uploads and HTTP downloads are different animals. For
example (it depends on the webserver OS):

1. You FTP upload to: ftp.yada.com/usr/home/yada/public_html/subfolder

2. The installer HTTP downloads from http://www.yada.com/subfolder

> Or, is it a username and password to the entire website.. also, how can I
> test this? This is for the update install, not the entire install.

You can password protect webserver subfolders with individual passwords.

>
> And, do I really need this in my update install?
>

You only need this if you create a Web Install or Web Update. If you do not
have a password protected webserver (or folder) then no password is required
for the download.

>
> Also, should I create a new guid for the product guid?
>

If the "new" and the "old" version of your software can "co-exist" on the
same machine then you need a new Product GUID. If this is an update for an
existing product (e.g. from version 1.6 to 1.7) then you have to use the
same Product GUID. In this case v1.7 replaces v1.6.

Friedrich