Chameleon Blog

Upload the galleries from your local gallery folder and graphical recips to your hosting server by FTP. Automatic recognition and upload of new recips only! Also supports download. If you wish to submit a sponsor-hosted gallery (defined in Step 1), this step is automatically skipped!

Step 5: FTP Upload

Unless you did so in Options, click on the FTP shortcut button to open an FTP Options tab (File > Options > FTP) and enter the data needed for FTP access at the hosting server.

Connection:

In the list, select the Server name where you want to upload files/folders and click on the Connect button. Progress details will be displayed in the adjoining text box.
If the connection was successful the detection light will turn green and the server folders will be displayed in the lower right part of the tab (server pane).
If not, please correct the settings on the FTP Options tab (File > Options > FTP), or make sure that you are on-line and connect again.

Click the Stop/Disconnect button at any time to suspend or terminate the connection to the server.

Upload:

You can verify the local and server paths for gallery and recip upload by clicking on Test Paths Before Uploading. Both paths (uploaded from… to…) for galleries and recips will be displayed in the dialog window.

Test Paths Before Uploading

The gallery paths are a combination of information entered in Gallery to Duplicate (Step 4), Base URL (Step 1) and Initial Gallery/Host Directory (FTP Options).
The default local path of the “img” folder in Upload Recips From points to the Chameleon Submitter folder (Chameleon Submitter\img\). Upload Recips To displays the Recips Directory which was entered in FTP Options. Ignore these recip paths if your recips are stored and linked to from the gallery folder (see URL of Recips in Step 4).

If you already have an original gallery with images uploaded on the server or if you only wish to upload duplicated galleries (without images), check Upload Duplicated Galleries Only.

If you wish to verify which files/folders will be automatically uploaded when the Upload Galleries button is clicked, hit Highlight Items to Upload. This will automatically browse to the respective gallery folder in the lower left part (local pane).
If your recips are stored and linked to in the gallery folder (see URL of Recips in Step 4) then this folder will also be highlighted and it will upload automatically with the other files/folders by clicking on Upload Galleries.
Note that the “log” folder does not need to be uploaded to the server and is therefore not highlighted.

If you are satisfied with the selection click on the Upload Galleries button and you can monitor the upload progress in the adjoining text box or in the Uploading… dialog.

Uploading...

If you are not satisfied with the selection then manually highlight those items in the local pane which you would like to upload and select Upload Selected from the context menu (open context menu by clicking the right mouse button).

In case that you use a common recip folder for each submit (see URL of Recips in Step 4), click on Upload Recips. This will automatically compare the recips stored in the Chameleon Submitter “img” folder (Chameleon Submitter\img\) with those on the server so that ONLY the new (or missing) recips are uploaded. Recommended!

As soon as upload is completed, click on the Stop/Disconnect button in Connection to terminate the connection.

You can review the uploaded galleries by clicking on the Check Galleries button. This will open the whole list of galleries with their respective sites.

If you want to continue submitting automatically, click on Continue button. You will automatically be brought to Auto Submit (Step 6).
Or, if you want to continue submitting manually, click directly on the Manual Submit tab (Step 7).

• If the error message “No such file or directory” is displayed during connect even though the directory exists on your server, this means you entered an incorrect Initial Gallery/Host Directory in FTP Options. It is necessary to set it correctly for a successful connect, but also to upload your galleries correctly!
• If a file with the same name is detected on the server during upload click on the appropriate button according to whether you wish to Overwrite (All) or Skip (All). Click on Cancel, to suspend the upload.
• If connection was disrupted for any reason during the upload, click on the Connect button in Connection again. For a quicker selection of the files missing on the server, click on Compare Files in the context menu (right click on any file in the local pane to open the context menu) and click Upload Selected.
• Before comparing files make sure that the folder opened in the server pane is the same as in the local pane. If not, use the Browse Gallery/Recips Folder in context menu to open the folder fast both in local and server panes.
• Comparison of the local folders and server folders for missing or new files is based on their name and size (in bytes).
• If needed, you can download selected items from the server. Just highlight those items in the server pane which you would like to download and select Download Selected from the context menu (open context menu by clicking the right mouse button).
• All updated reciprocal buttons can be found in the Chameleon Submitter ‘img’ folder (Chameleon Submitter\img\). Please DO NOT CHANGE the name of this folder or the Database won’t be updated correctly!
• There may be several reasons if Gallery URLs or images and recips do not display:
  1. You are off-line. You have to be on-line for them to display properly;
  2. You failed to upload any or all galleries;
  3. You failed to upload any or all recips;
  4. The galleries or recips were uploaded to an incorrect folder on the server;
  5. The galleries or recips were uploaded to an incorrect server.