I'm trying to publish my program so that it can get updates and am told I have to publish my changes to a web server or file share server, but I have no idea about how I can go about getting one...are there free ones that will perform what I need to accomplish?
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NearlyFreeSpeech, while not free, lets you host your application on a pay as you go plan. There are free web-hosts, but most lack the features of costies, such as FTP access.
Simon Brown
2010-06-01 21:57:52
I don't see file hosting on site or fileshare as one of the services they provide on their website. Are you sure they provide this service? (I need to make this work for the update feature is really all).
Assimilater
2010-06-02 04:12:41
It's a web host. If you have FTP access, type in the address of the FTP server. If not, publish it somewhere on your hard disk and copy it across.
Simon Brown
2010-06-02 10:29:46
I see we have a mis understanding here. I can't use FTP because Click-Once does not allow updates from an FTP location....
Assimilater
2010-06-02 23:09:40
+1
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Maybe Microsoft's free web hosting will allow you to do this.
Marcus Adams
2010-06-01 21:59:53
I like this idea up of what has been presented if: I can set my publish location on a site here. I'm not sure how. Anyone know how for any of the suggestions or of your own?
Assimilater
2010-06-01 22:28:39
Well I got information to allow me to use my ftp server, but I'll mark this as my answer since I actually used it (the site I made here looked nicer than the one I had on google sites...)
Assimilater
2010-06-15 01:06:59
+1
A:
000webhost.com is actually a pretty reliable host, with decent and free advertisement-free hosting. It also supports typical web server things such as FTP access, cpanel and e-mail accounts.
Their limit on free hosting is basically low disk space (1.5 GB) and bandwidth (100 GB/mo) and some minor content restriction. If that seems fine for you, then I highly recommend it. Even on free accounts, their ticket response time is blazing.
Corey
2010-06-01 22:07:56
So I created an account, but I can't find out how to set publish and update locations to a place here.
Assimilater
2010-06-02 04:33:07
You should be able to just put [the site directory that's hosting it](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/31kztyey%28v=VS.80%29.aspx), I think.
Corey
2010-06-02 05:47:28
Ok correction, not HOW do I set the update location, WHERE is the update location? I can't find what URL to use...
Assimilater
2010-06-02 23:24:08
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Ok, I don't know what to do and comments seem to go ignored.
I've tried setting the publish location to sites.google.com/site/mysite.com/filecabinetpage/PQCMFILES
and I got an error saying I needed "Front Page Server Extension Capabilities".
I tried setting it to http://productivityquotient.hostzi.com/PQCMFILES/ and it told me: Error 1 Failed to connect to 'http://productivityquotient.hostzi.com/PQCMFILES/' with the following error: Unable to create the Web site 'http://productivityquotient.hostzi.com/PQCMFILES'. An error occurred accessing your site configuration files. Authors - if authoring against a web server, please contact the webmaster for this server's site. Webmasters - please see the server's application event log for more details. 1 1 Contact Manager
I tried setting it to a directory on the microsoft site and it said: "unable to create directory. files moved" or something like that.
I can't host it on an ftp server if I intend to use the updates feature and I don't know what to do...
Assimilater
2010-06-05 03:24:16
I have a clickOnce application that I publish via FTP and use the same folder for the application and updates and everything works well. I can tell you a bit more about the settings if you haven't figured it out (I'm running VS2008 with SP1 installed)
Rox
2010-06-08 11:08:35
really? How did you do that? Is the FTP server password protected? (Not that I need mine password protected it just is...I don't have a choice in that matter...)
Assimilater
2010-06-08 15:34:00
One other question, is it just people in your local network who can get updates or other people across the world as well?
Assimilater
2010-06-08 15:35:03