The following instructions apply only to
Web Application Projects.
For Web Site Projects, please see
this Knowledge Base article.
To publish your web application using FTP:
- Open the project in Visual Studio 2010.
- Click Build -> Publish. This will bring up the
"Publish Web" dialog box.
- Change the "Publish Method" to FTP.
- In the target location field, enter:
ftp://[domainName]/[subdirectory], e.g.;
ftp://HostingAccountDomain.com/app1. Replace [subdirectory] with the
directory you wish to publish the application to. If you are uploading your project directly on the root directory set the ftp address to ftp://HostingAccountDomain.com. If you are publishing to subdirectory, please make sure it exists on the server.
- In username field, enter the FTP user name found in Control Panel.
- In the password field, enter the FTP password.
- Click Publish.
Article ID: 812, Created On: 4/30/2010, Modified: 4/21/2011