Publishing Content

To publish your content, you will need to connect to the server by using SFTP or SSH. The SFTP host, login credentials and directory are the same for all SFTP and SSH clients.

Please note: the example foldername represents the root folder of your website.

FileZilla

  1. Go to File > Site Manager
  2. Click on New Site
  3. Enter in a name for your connection
  4. Enter in the following information:
    5.   Host: files.web.uoguelph.ca  
      ServerType: SFTP using SSH2
      Logontype: Normal
      User: organizational account login ID
      Password: organizational account password - this box will be greyed out until you click on Connect and then you will be prompted to enter the password

     

  1. Once you have successfully connected you will see both your local and remote folders, change the path information on the remote site either /stage/foldername or /production/foldername

     

Dreamweaver 8 and Higher

  1. Go to File > Site > New Site
  2. Select on the Advanced tab
  3. Click on Remote Info
  4. Enter the following information - replace foldername with your folder name
    5. Access FTP
    FTP Host files.web.uoguelph.ca
    Host Directory production server: /production/foldername
      stage/development server: /stage/foldername
    Login Organizational account login ID
    Password Organizational account password
    Use Secure FTP (SFTP) checked

    Please note: earlier versions of Dreamweaver (before version 8) will not work. You must upgrade or use another SFTP client.

Contribute

Most Contribute users will be provided with a connection key by their site administrator, however to create a connection with Contribute directly:

  1. Choose My Connections from the Edit menu
  2. Click the Create button, then Next
  3. Enter the URL for your website (http://www.uoguelph.ca/foldername/)
  4. From the "How do you connect to your web server?" pull down menu, choose Secure FTP (SFTP)
  5. Enter files.web.uoguelph.ca in the field for SFTP server
  6. Enter your Organizational Central Login ID user name and password in the SFTP Username and SFTP Password fields
  7. The next page in the connection wizard asks "On the SFTP server, what folder contains your website?"

    If you are connecting to your staged content enter /stage/foldername/
    If you are managing production content enter /production/foldername/

  8. The next pages in the connection wizard ask for your full name, email address and your Role. If an administrator has not been set up you may choose this role, otherwise choose another role from the list provided.

Secure Shell (SSH)

  1. Start an SSH session by using a SSH client such as Putty
  2. Login in with the following:
  3. After you login you will be located in the Home Directory for the Central Login ID you used to authenticate. You will change to your directory by:
    cd /production/foldername or cd /stage/foldername

Develop, Test, Deploy

Applications must be fully tested on the stage server before they are moved to production.