Figuring out SC and container paths when publishing to Server

[Ziphius]

I have a database with a SC webviewer where photos can be dragged and dropped.  I have related tables that display the document in a container field by pointing to the documents folder. On my desktop, it all works fine, but I need to publish it to a Filemaker Hosting Server (Pointinspace).

 

I created a Preferences table (related via Cartesian relationship) where I can easily change the server path and the path to my documents folder so that the webviewer and container fields are finding the proper folders. My problem is I don't know how to determine exactly what those path addresses should be.

 

This is what I have on my computer:

 

 

server address: http://localhost:8020/SuperContainer/Files/

 

path to documents: HMMGuamMantaOnlineDatabase/Photos/

 

This is what I think I'm suppose to have on the server:

 

server address: http://hmmp.pointinspace.com:8054/SuperContainer/Files

 

path to documents: RC_Data_FMS/HMMMantaOnlineDatabase2013/Files/HMMMantaOnlineDatabase/Photos/ 

 

Any suggestions on how to setup or determine the proper pathway? 

[dansmith65]

This may be a question for Pointinspace, because I believe the path to the files depends on the SC server configuration. Is it a private server, or a shared server?

[Ziphius]

It must be a shared server. When they installed SC for me, this is what they sent me:

 

 

"SC was installed, you can access it at: http://hmmp.pointinspace.com:8054/SuperContainer/

 

User: xxxxx Pass: xxxx, and it will use the /supercontainer/ directory at the root of your ftp12.pointinspace.com FTP account for file storage."

 

Given this, it would seem that directing a web viewer or a container field to 

 

http://hmmp.pointinspace.com:8054/SuperContainer/Files/HMMGuamMantaOnlineDatabase/Photos/

 

should do the trick if I upload all my images folder via FTP to the directory:

 

SuperContainer/Files/HMMGuamMantaOnlineDatabase/Photos/

 

Am I missing something?

 

I can see the "Choose File" buttons in my web viewer, which tells me the SC is working properly, but when I drop a document into the SC, I can't find it anywhere in my FTP directory, but it does show in the SC. Since I don't want to drag and drop every document from my database one at a time, it would be much easier to upload the document folder to the proper directory on the server.

[dansmith65]

The path you are using now is much closer than where you started with your first post, but this is concerning...

 

I can see the "Choose File" buttons in my web viewer, which tells me the SC is working properly, but when I drop a document into the SC, I can't find it anywhere in my FTP directory, but it does show in the SC.

 

I don't know what to tell you now, it seems like you should have access to files via FTP after you've uploaded via SC. Again, I don't know how Point in Space does this setup, though.

[Joe Pampalon]

I believe this is now resolved. The problem was a setup issue on the PointInSpace server where the SuperContainer folder and customized web.xml file both referenced SuperContainer as "supercontainer". This confused Ziphius into using "supercontainer" in part of his URL when in fact the URL is case specific and should always reference "SuperContainer".