Building FTP server to share hosted data

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SuperMap iPortal supports sharing hosted data through FTP server. The data uploaded to portal can be stored in FTP server for sharing between iPortal and multiple iServer nodes, then iServer can fetch the data for service publishing.

If you don't have an available FTP server, then you need to set up one as shared storage for the hosted data, which should have large storage, and the iPortal and iServer nodes can connect to it.

Here we take win7 system as an example to introduce how to build an FTP server:

  1. Click Start Menu ->Control Panel->Programs->Turn Windows features on or off, check Internet Information Services and expand, check FTP server and expand, check FTP Service and FTP expansibility, check the IIS Management Console of Web Management Tools, click OK.
  2. After the system has automatically configured successfully , input "IIS" in the start screen search bar, then click Internet Information Services(IIS) Manager.
  3. In the Internet Information Services(IIS) Manager panel, right click Sites on the left panel, select Add FTP Site..., then fill information of the site by the tips, such as FTP site name and Content Directory.
  4. Click next to enter Binding and SSL Settings panel, input the IP Address of this server, to make sure  iPortal and nodes of iServer could connect. The deault port is 21. Then check Start FTP site automatically, select No SSL or Require SSL for SSL.
  5. Click next to set Authentication and Authorization Information, check Basic for Authentication. In Authorization panel, set one option for Allow access to on demand，check Read and Write for Permissions in sense that allow users upload data to FTP server.
  6. Click finish, then your FTP site will be displayed in the left column under Sites.
  7. Check wether it works by inputting the "ftp://" in the address bar of your browser.