I am having trouble uploading my feed
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You will need a few pieces of information before you can upload the RSS feed to your Web site. This information will most likely be the same information that you needed to upload Web pages, to your Web server.

1. FTP Server - The address of the FTP server (in many cases this is the domain name of your Web site).
2. Username - The username you use to log onto the FTP server.
3. Password - The password you use to log onto the FTP server.
4. Path* - The folder on the FTP server you want to put you feed's file into.
5. file name** - The name you want to give your feed's file.

After this information is entered into the 'FTP Upload' screen, click the 'Upload' button to upload your feed. If you are not successful uploading, double check the above information, view the FTP log for hints as to what the problem is, and try switching the 'Mode' setting. If you still experience problems, the FeedForAll support forum is a good source of information for this type of problem.


*Path - This one can be a little tricky at times. This is the path on the FTP server in relation to the folder you are placed into, by default, when you log onto the FTP server. This is not a URL (i.e. not http://www.myserver.com/). If your Web pages reside in the folder that you are place in when you log onto the FTP server, then this field should be left blank. Otherwise, it may look something like 'public_html/'. There are also two things to take notice of. First, on FTP servers the path separator is a forward slash '/' not a backslash like on Windows computers. Second, you shouldn't start the path with a slash '/' unless you are sure you know the full path to the destination folder from the root of the FTP server's directory.

** Typically RSS files end with the .XML extension. Although FTP server can accept files with spaces in their file name, most Web servers won't allow users to download an RSS feed that has spaces in its file name. Don't use spaces.