We recently got the Adobe Creative Cloud subscription at work, and I wanted to check out their web hosting plan \u2013 one of the features is hosting for up to five websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve never hosted a website with Adobe (or, more specifically, Business Catalyst), so I wasn\u2019t sure where to start. I looked around the website, and eventually found that there are three ways to create a website:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The documentation I read on Adobe.com indicated that even if I go the Muse or Dreamweaver route, I\u2019ll eventually need to use BusinessCatalyst to manage my site for things such as DNS, so I went to BusinessCatalyst.com. Also, I didn\u2019t really feel like installing Muse or Dreamweaver, as I have no intention of using either of those programs (I like to use Visual Studio for those types of tasks).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, turns out that creating my website with BusinessCatalyst.com was a mistake. Creative Cloud subscriptions come with five webBasic<\/strong> websites. These types of websites can be created from Muse (or possibly Dreamweaver). However, creating from BusinessCatalyst.com will create a webCommerce<\/strong> site. I noticed the problem when I tried to promote my site to live. When clicking the \u201cUpgrade\u201d button, it started asking for my credit card info. After a chat with their CSR, my site was \u201cdowngraded\u201d to webBasic and I was able to push the site to live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I did not want to move my website to Business Catalyst. What I wanted was a place to store files on the Adobe Cloud, while keeping my website where it was. To do that, I wanted a subdomain, images.bloodforge.com, to be hosted on Adobe\u2019s cloud. Everything else with bloodforge.com would remain where it was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first step is to go to the administration section of the website created in Step 1 above, clicking on Manage Site-> Site Settings \u2013> Site Domains. Click on \u201cNew Domain\u201d button on the top of the page, and configure the domain. In the \u201cDomain\u201d field, enter the full domain name of your site. So, in my example, I entered \u201cimages.bloodforge.com\u201d, without the quotes. Select \u201cUse an external DNS server\u201d radio button option, and copy the IP address listed. You will need this in the next step. Click on the \u201cSave\u201d button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now that you have the IP address of your site, log into the DNS manager of your current website (which in my case was Arvixe, but it could just as well have been GoDaddy or something similar. You will need to create an \u201cA\u201d record for your domain, and point it to the IP address you just copied from BusinessCatalyst when creating your domain. So, in my example, I created an \u201cA\u201d record for “bloodforge.com\u201d with a name of \u201cimages\u201d, and pointed it to the correct IP address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At this point, you should be able to go to the domain you just created. Type the full domain (in my case, images.bloodforge.com) into your browser and you should now be at the BusinessCatalyst website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You\u2019ll need to obtain the FTP settings for your website from BusinessCatalyst. Log into the admin section of the website created in Step 1, and go to \u201cManageSite\u201d \u2013> \u201cSite Manager\u201d \u2013> \u201cFile Manager\u201d, and click on the \u201cUpload Files\u201d button at the top of the page. There should be a Tip on this page, and if you click on the \u201cSee Details\u201d button, it will show you the details for your FTP login info. In my case, it was:<\/p>\n\n\n\n I use FileZilla to FTP, and I entered in the information above. I was rather disappointed that BusinessCatalyst used standard FTP with plain text encryption. Doesn\u2019t seem very secure, but it is what it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I was able to upload \u201c.aspx\u201d pages to the site, however, it did not execute. Seems like the handler for the file types is disabled. However, other files, such as images, serve up just fine. One thing to keep in mind is that if you upload HTML files, they will not be exactly the same when you access them with a browser. BusinessCatalyst adds some of their own stuff into your files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We recently got the Adobe Creative Cloud subscription at work, and I wanted to check out their web hosting plan \u2013 one of the features is hosting for up to five websites. 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Step 3: FTP files to your Adobe\/Business Catalyst website<\/h4>\n\n\n\n