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Configuring User FTP Password
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The first step in accessing the FTP server is to configure an FTP password on the user.
First click on the Configuration link on the left hand navigation and then click on the "Users" link under General as shown below.
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After an FTP password is configured the FTP server is accessed with the following credentials:
Server | merchantftp.ultracart.com |
Username | <MerchantID>/<LOGIN> |
Password | <FTP Password> |
Notice that the values in angle brackets are replaced with the actual values for the account.
Please make sure to study the format for the credentials carefully.
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By clicking on the catalogs folder the FTP client will drill down into the folder and show the subfolders. There is one folder for each catalog host configured on the UltraCart account.
After clicking on the hostname folder, in this case ucdoc.ultracart.com, the FTP client will show three child folders as shown below:
The three child folders each represent different file level functionality within a catalog.
file-system | The file system folder provides a generic file system for the catalog. Users can upload entire static sites to the file system folder including directories, subdirectories. Static content such as CSS and graphics is often used by the catalog templates for the look & feel of site. Note: If you are using tools like Dreamweaver to upload/download content then you will want to set the "root" folder in Dreamweaver to the "file-system" folder. which has a complete path of /catalogs/<host name>/file-system/ |
group-multimedia | Group multimedia folder allows the navigation of the group hierarchy of the site and storage of multimedia associated with each group. Usage of group multimedia is covered in a later chapter, but FTPing files in is an efficient method of uploading the content to UltraCart |
logs | The log directory provides access to the last six weeks of traffic on a catalog. Log files are formatted in Apache common log format and can be processed by a variety of 3rd party log analysis tools. |
Whenever a user requests a URL from the catalog that does not have a filename (such as http://ucdoc.ultracart.com/ ), UltraCart first checks to see if a file named "index.html" exists on the file system in the requested folder. If the file exists it will be served up to the client. A custom home page is created by placing the file "index.html" in the directory "/catalogs/<hostname>/file-system/". The naming conversion of "index.html" is the most common for default files. Other names like "index.htm" and "default.htm" are not supported. If a site contains those file names, they should be renamed before uploading them to the catalog file system.
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