Creating the Site

Sites in OmniUpdate are created from the Setup tab under Sites. Any number of Sites can be created and added to your account.

Sites Tab

In order to update your website, you need access to the staging server.

Server: The FTP address where the site is hosted. Can be either ftp, s:ftp, or p:ftp.
Username: The username for your FTP server.
Password: The password for your FTP server.
FTP Root: Usually "/", but sometimes the root of the FTP is not always the root of the server it resides on. This allows you to set the FTP root path if this is the case (such as "/site".
HTTP Root: The URL root of your website; which is usually "http://www.college.edu". If a path exists in the "FTP Root", that path must follow the HTTP Root (such as "http://www.college.edu/site").
FTP Home: The highest level files can be written to for the site.
FTP Directory: FTP directory is optional.
Image Directory: You can define a path where all images will be uploaded to no matter where you try to upload a file.
Template Directory: If path shows, OmniUpdate searches your production server. If path does not show, OmniUpdate searches the staging server (FTP access to staging server required).

The DirectEdit button is the "Button" selected to begin editing your website.

Button Type: Determines if a button is used and where the button is located. The "None" button type will not add a DirectEdit button to the bottom of each page. The "Standard" button will add the popular "Last Updated" link to your page for easy login.

Button Code: Something similar to

<a href="^0" target="_top">Last Modified: ^2</a>

Site Preferences are where you can set a few preferences such as Default Extensions for files or the Time Zone of your production server.

Default Extension: Default page extenstion for the site.
Time Zone: Default Time Zone for the site (Default is "America/Los_Angeles"). Can be changed to "EST", "CST", "MST", "PST", or GMT such as "Etc/GMT-8" (which is GMT for Pacific Coast).
Locale: Default Locale for the site.
Short URL: Link and image URL's will begin with a "/"
ASCII Only: ASCII encodes all special characters
Filename Regex Must not Match: Check this fieled if you do NOT want the regular expression in the below input box to be true
Filename Regex: You can input a regular expression in this field to limit the names of files. Regular expressions allow you to specify whether or not you want letters, numbers, capitalization, etc.