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Secure FTP Protocols
Apart from standard FTP (file transfer protocol) Designer Pro also supports the more
secure FTPS and SFTP protocols. Some web hosting require you to upload your site
using one of these instead of insecure FTP.

Click on the dropdown menu following CONNECT USING: on the OTHER WEB HOST
SETTINGS dialog and you will see the following options...

Choose from one of the three options - there is the normal FTP option and then the
secure FTPS and SFTP options. You will need to know which of the FTP protocols your
hosting company supports first - and then fill in your FTP details as described above.

Now normally what happens is that FTPS is assigned to Port 21 and SFTP is assigned to
Port 22 as part of the host's IP network address. This is not something you would usually
have to be concerned about as Designer Pro automatically manages this for you, but
sometimes in the interests of further security, a host's system administrator will assign a
different port number, and if this is the case you will have to manually enter the new port
number as part of the FTP host address.

In this example the port number has been changed to 22098 and has thus been added to the
host's address as :22098

For further information read our Knowledgebase http://www.xara.com/support/sftp/ article
on publishing using secure FTP protocols.

Explore web space
When you have completed the FTP host address, FTP username and FTP password
boxes, click the optional Explore web space button to browse, view and delete files you
have uploaded to your ftp server.

You can view files and open folders to view subfolder contents and also set up a
subfolder path. You can also delete individual or multiple files. Select multiple files by