SERVER SETUP - Step 8) Add a user to the FileZilla FTP Server (Continued). Now that we have added the user bob, we now need to configure the password and home directory for that user. Before we exit the username dialog, make sure you enable a password as shown circled in red in the screenshot shown below. Once you are done typing in the password, write down the username and password for later use when we setup our blog client software.

SERVER SETUP - Step 9) Add a home directory to the FileZilla FTP Server. Now that we set the password for the user, we have one last step to configure the directory where the user will publish the blog. As shown circled in red below, click on the SHARED FOLDERS and you will see a screenshot similar to the one shown below. We will now click the ADD BUTTON under the shared folders section to add a directory for bob.

SERVER SETUP - Step 10) Add a home directory to the FileZilla FTP Server (Continued). Once you click the ADD button to add a directory, your Windows File Explorer screen will pop up asking what directory to add. Since we created the c:\Blog directory in step 1, we will select that directory as the home directory for the user bob as shown below and then click OK.

SERVER SETUP - Step 11) Set permissions on the directory we added to the FileZilla FTP Server
Once you set the directory as shown above in step 10, you need to set the proper permissions to allow the blog user to create and write files and directories. Make sure that C:\blog is the directory highlighted as shown below, and then make sure that READ, WRITE, DELETE are checked ON. You also need to make sure CREATE, DELETE, LIST and +SUBDIRS are all enabled as shown below. Then Click OK in the bottom left corner to finish adding the permissions.

You are done with the Web server, FTP Server and Dynamic DNS setup. Leave this PC/Server up and running and do not turn it off, this will act as your blog web server and needs to be running and connected to the Internet at all times.


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