Publish to your own site

1. Add your website as an account profile

Go to "upload/manage" and add a new account profile.

Press Add and then select Use an existing account on other server and press ok.

Enter the ftp type, server name, username and password. If you don't know what to enter here, ask those who run the web server for you. The ftp address is usually of the form ftp.yoursite.com or www.yoursite.com

Finally press Connect.

2. Verify your web root folder and address

Chosen web root folder and web address

You should now be connected to your ftp server and see a list of the folders of your account. jAlbum will attempt to identify which of these folders holds the files for your web site, the so called "Web root" folder. This is done to ensure that you only upload albums that are accessible via the web. The detected folder will be indicated with a small globe icon next to it. On some servers, the root of the account is the web root, but it is also common to see sub folders like "www" or "public_html" holding the web files. jAlbum will also try to guess the web address of your site. You will see what jAlbum is guessing in the address field at the bottom of the window.

If either of these auto detections fails, jAlbum will pop up an error message and ask you to right click the folder that represents the root of your web site and select "Mark as web root". You will now be asked to confirm or correct the web address of your site.

Dialog indicating that jAlbum can't detect the folder that represents your web site

3. Choose target folder

jAlbum may propose a folder location for the album on your server. If it doesn't just select the folder where to create the album folder and click the New album directory button.

It's very important that all albums on your website are placed inside sub folders. If you publish directly to the web root the album will overwrite existing content on the website.

4. Upload

When you're ready, hit Upload. To make jAlbum remember this location for future updates to this album, save the album project before quitting jAlbum.