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Sandvox - Setup Host to Publish to Local Folder

Posted on time October 6th, 2008 by user neil flag Comments Off

This shows how to quickly use Setup Host to allow the Publish of *Changes* of a site to a local folder, such as the Sites folder in the users’ Home folder, rather than use Site > Export Site… . It does not involve setting up the local computer as a localhost server but this method does allows the use of Publish for changed files only rather than Export every single file as new each time.

The advantage of this is when using an external FTP Client to Synchronize changes between the local computer and the Web Hosted Site only the updated files are seen as new not every single file in the site. When you use Export Site, every file is give the current time and so all the files appear new to the FTP Client for syncronization.

Related tutorial - [Sandvox - Web Sharing and Publish to Localhost]

01. In Sandvox, Click Setup Host

02. If the site has not Published before…

2.1 If the site has not published before, you will see a warning saying so.

03. If the site has not Published before Click Edit

3.1 If the site has not Published before there is only one button to click - Edit

04. If the site has Published before…

4.1 If the site has Published before, there are two buttons. You can Edit the current settings or…
4.2 Click New Configuration

05. Click the dot next to On This Computer

5.1 Choose to publish On This Computer

06. Click Continue

07. Ignore ‘Open Sharing Preferences’

7.1For this purpose, ignore the Open Sharing Preferences option. You do not need this turned on for the purpose of publishing changes to a local folder.

08. Just click Continue on the [Step 07] screen

8.1 Click Continue

09. Choose where to store the published site.

9.1 I chose to publish the site to the Sites folder in my Home folder. [Macintosh HD:Users:username:Sites]
9.2 [Optional] You can specify the hostname as localhost. I left it blank and the process still worked [ Hostname of this computer: localhost ]
9.3 I gave the name of the subfolder as the name of the site. Store site in a subfolder called: sitename

10. Ignore the “not able” text

10.1 Don’t worry that you see this text that "Sandvox was not able to…"

11. Click Continue at [Step 10]

11.1 Click Continue

12. The website will be publish

12.1 Ignore the warning about web sharing. I want to Publish locally not web share.

13. Click Done on [Step 12]

13.1 Click Done

14. Click Publish to publish changes

Now you can Publish just the site changes to the local folder created in [Step 09]
14.1 Click Publish to publish the site changes.