The Add Server Wizard| Simfatic Forms 5.0 Help

The Add Server Wizard

When using Simfatic Forms to upload to webserver, you need to configure your server in Simfatic Forms with the FTP login details. The Add Server Wizard takes you step-by-step in to configuring a web server with Simfatic Forms.

In the Take the code wizard->Swift upload step press the 'Add Server' button to open the 'Add Server Wizard'

The Server Info page

In this page, you have to provide the basic information regarding the web server.

Web Address of the server:
The domain name of the website (like www.yourwebsite.com)

How do you publish web pages?
Select FTP if the server is remote and you used to upload web pages via FTP
Select Copy to folder if your web server is located locally and you publish web pages by copying the files to a local/network folder.

The FTP Login details page

This page appears only if you have selected FTP as the upload method in the first step.

Provide the FTP login details of your web server in this page.

The fields in this dialog box are explained below:

Server address
The name of the server ( like www.myserver.com ) or the IP address of your server.

User Name
The user name to be used to login to the server.

Password
The password for FTP login.

Remember Password
Select this option if you want Simfatic Forms to remember the password. For the next login you don't have to give the password again.

The Publish folder page('Copy to Local Folder' case )

This page appears only if you have selected 'Copy to Local Folder' as the upload method in the first step.

The publish folder
Select the folder where you publish web pages. You have to select the folder where if we put a file say, 'page.html' it will be accessible as my-web-site/page.html where my-web-site is the address of your web server.

The 'Test' button
When you press the Test button, Simfatic forms copies a file to the publish folder and tries to access the page using the URL. This ensures that the publish folder you have entered is right.

The 'Publish Folder' page ( in case of FTP Upload )

This page is displayed only if you selected FTP as the upload method in the first step.

In this page, you select the folder on the server where you publish your web pages.

If your web site address is http://my-web-server.com and if you want to publish a web page page.html such that its URL is http://my-web-server.com/page.html, then in which folder would you put the file page.html? Select that folder.

Folders
The folders box shows all the folders that are present on the server. You have to select the folder in which you publish your web pages.

The 'Test' button
When you press the 'Test' button, Simfatic forms uploads a file to the selected folder and tries to access the page using the URL.

The Summary Page

A summary of the choices you made are shown in this page.