Does the FTP Server Service have to run on the same machine as the IIS? I mean both technially and to comply with the license?
Reason for asking is that I have shared hosting for my CS web app, but can't run services there. So I was thinking if I ran the FTP Service on a machine at home set it up to point to the hosted DB/IIS and installed the license on the hosted DB/IIS?
But I might have misunderstood the functionality of the FTP Service, maybe it just works with filessystemstorage?
No, it doesn't have to run on the same server as IIS. You can run it on your home machine and have it connect to you web host, but it is not a scenario that we encourage (since it isn't very practical) or support.
In order to do it, you need to be able to connect directly to your web host's SQL Server. If you can't, then it is a no go. You'd set the connection string in the .exe.config for the executeable. Secondly, you have two options for the files... either have it write them to the DB (not good if you have a limited amount of DB space... it is the default configuration though), or configure the FTP Server to write them to the file system locally, and then you'd need to upload those files manually once you were done to the ~/photos/storage directory (not very practical, but saves DB space). For this, you'd need set enableFileSystemStore to true, set the fileSystemStorageLocation, and set enableDataStoreStorage to false.
Thanks Ken,
I'll try to setup according to the first option.
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