The following article was kindly submitted by John Robb.
Just a quick note on FTP hosting for those who haven't done it before. Here are the instructions I used to publish to my site using Radio (for those of you who know what they are doing technically, please disregard this post):
First, I bought a domain. I then used the account manager at Network Solutions to put in the location of Digital-Crocus's (my hosting company) DNS servers for the domain I just bought (Note: Network Solutions defaults to their own servers, so you need to change them):
primary: ns1.digital-crocus.com and the secondary: ns2.digital-crocus.com
OK, now that I did that, the new location of my domain will take 24-48 hours to percolate through the Internet's domain system. In the meantime, I published my weblog to the new location.
First, using Digital-Crocus's domain manager to register my domain www.mindplex.org. I waited a bit until it showed up and then I created a subdomain: jrobb.mindplex.org
I then went to my FTP preference in Radio (with Radio running click this link):
http://127.0.0.1:5335/system/pages/prefs?page=1.5
and put in the following information:
- UserName: xxxx (the UserName on my Digital-Crocus account)
- Password: xxxx (the Password on my Digital-Crocus account)
- Server: ftp.digital-crocus.com
- Path: /jrobb.mindplex.org/
- Url: http://jrobb.mindplex.org/
After submitting that information, I then republished my entire weblog from Radio. To do this, I right clicked on the Radio icon in the system tray (near the clock) and selected "Open Radio." Next, I selected from the menu in the application: Radio>Publish>Entire Website. I set down the computer and waited, 30 minutes later it was done.
A final note: I did use Radio's category feature to publish additional category weblogs to different locations on my domain. More on how I did that later.
