How to use FTP to publish application via Visual Studio. Print

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The following instructions apply to Web Application Projects.

To publish your web application using FTP:

Open the project in Visual Studio.
Click Build -> Publish. This will bring up the "Publish Web" dialogue box.
Click Profile, name it for your web application
In Connection section, change the "Publish Method" to FTP.
For the Server field in Connection, enter your FTP address, e.g.; yourdomainname.com
In the Site path field, leave blank. It should upload your files to your /httpdocs folder which is your root.
In username field, enter the FTP user name found in hosting control panel that you created.
In the password field, enter the FTP password, leave the destination url as blank
Click Next to determine the web.configuration you will publish.
Click Publish.

Note: If Passive Mode doesn't work, Uncheck Passive and Retry the Publishing.

Note: All web files reside in the /httpdocs folder which is your root folder by default.

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