Problem with the Xara Pro+ built in uploader

[Chris M]

I hate like "H" to have to export > open FZ > copy all the files > and move to public_html. What a royal pain !

Set it up once, good to go forever after:

Set FZ to open in the correct window (pic 1)
Dump your stuff (pic 2)

[handrawn]

call me old fashioned [because I am] but I have spent a lot of time in the past uploading stuff [but not websites] to servers, and I like FTP because you can [if you wish] watch what it is doing whilst it is doing it and hopefully see where it went wrong

pressing a button and expecting it to work 'just like that' still seems to me like a leap of faith.. but things are more robust now than back in the day, or at least should be

[Acorn]

@Bill - I'm on @CHris M & @handrawn's view on this.
FileZilla offers so much more over Xara's in-built approach, e.g., Overwrite if newer matches Xara's Fast Publish.
Key for me is the ability to examine the Web Export files locally as well as being able to park a website into a sub-folder or run versions and link into other uploaded web resource folders.

Can't easily be done in the XDA and definitely not in Xara Cloud.

I export into a folder where I point Fenix: Fenix 2.0.0, Author: Corey Butler, Fenixwebserver.com so I can run multiple site at any time on my local machine without Xara getting in the way.

Acorn

[bwood]

I’ll get the hang of it.

I think it’s finding the right files to upload. Once I export the website it will overwrite the files in that folder. Then I upload all in that folder. Initially it did not work.

Then the SP did this. Quote “ I have moved the /index_html_files/ folder to the public_html folder and the site seems to be loading now”

Question .., do I have to upload the /index_html_files/ folder to the public_html folder each time ?

It’s not FZ per say. If you understand my problem it’s choosing the right files to upload.

[Acorn]

Bill, if "the public_html folder" is where it works then yes.

If you are given FTP credentials to get to the server for your site and you need to load into "the public_html folder" then you type in public_html into the Sub-folder box:



FileZilla does the exact same job.

Your HTML files will be immediately under your public_html folder and index_html_files folder will be there too.
Acorn

[bwood]

Thanks Acorn - Chris M, and Handrawn. I've got the hang of filezilla. In the future Xara are working on the uploader to see what gives. FZ is working well for me. Once the index_html_files were moved everything's fine.
I'm still reading any info on FZ.

Thanks again,
Bill

[bwood]

Just an update. Xara continue to solve the problem of the uploader. The fuzzy fact remains that 7 of 10 sites load well with the uploader. 3 sites have to be uploaded with an external program (FileZilla). Half of those sites were made with a previous update of Pro+. Half use the new upload dialogue. I don’t believe that is the problem.

Xara techs almost have it. Using FTPS I can see "explore web space" -- the site uploads and stalls out at about 3%. Then quits.
Just an update as techs are aware.