Awhile back I wrote a post about using Jing’s FTP output and URL / embed templates to empower rich media blogging. Its a pretty good primer, but it apparently doesn’t go far enough–I’m still getting plenty of responses from people who just don’t grok how to setup Jing’s FTP output with their own site. To that end I’m adding a complete template of files for folks who have php on their server.
If you are in that boat, or just don’t want to expend too much effort, download the template files.
Now take the following steps
- Unzip the contents of the downloaded zip file.
- Move the jing_ftp_settings.txt to your desktop. This file contains the all the information (except your ftp server username and password) you need to support Jing and FTP output.
- Upload the rest of the files to the jing folder you created on your server.
- Open jing_ftp_settings.txt
- Open Jing preferences and click on the FTP button.
- Copy and paste the information from the jing_ftp_settings.txt to the corresponding fields in the Jing FTP Setup dialog.
- Make a few shares, paste some embed code and test things out.
If you’ve uploaded the correct files you’ll see something like this:
Some explanation of what you will see ing the jing settings document:
If you’ve correctly filled in your data in the Jing FTP Setup preferences you’ll see something like this:
That’s it. There’s nothing more to it. You can now upload content directly to your server and have Jing return URLs and embed code that points to that media. Let me know if this gets any of you a little closer to home. ;-)