publishing Storyline 2 as a website?

Mar 02, 2015

Hi there im new to Storyline 2, and have created some work that i would like to upload as a website, am i able to do this?

ive tried publishing it as html but when i view it on the domain name that i created it opens it in folders instead of just opening the content, please help .

17 Replies

Andre van der Merwe
Author

9 years ago03/02/15 at 8:09 am (UTC)

will publishing it as FTP possibly be the answer?

FTP_Published_Content_info.png

Nicola Appel

9 years ago03/02/15 at 8:19 am (UTC)

Hi Andre,

congratulations to your first Storyline 2 project! :)

When you upload your course to your server make sure to upload all the files and folders that are published by Storyline. Then you link to story.html which should open as a webpage.

FTP stands for file transfer protocol and is just another way to upload content to a server.

Andre van der Merwe
Author

9 years ago03/02/15 at 8:43 am (UTC)

Thank You,

by uploading all files will it open the browser directly to what I created or will it display all files?

Nicola Appel

9 years ago03/02/15 at 8:50 am (UTC)

When you open the story.html page it will display the course as you've created it. Uploading all the files is important so that the html page has all the information and content it needs to display your course.

Andre van der Merwe
Author

9 years ago03/02/15 at 8:56 am (UTC)

is there a way for it to open directly to the player instead of having to open files?

Nicola Appel

9 years ago03/02/15 at 8:59 am (UTC)

Hm, I'm not sure I understand your question correctly. When you open the html page it only displays the player with the course. There shouldn't be anything else for you to do in order to see the course. Is that what you mean?

Nicola Appel

9 years ago03/02/15 at 9:02 am (UTC)

Maybe an example helps to understand what I mean: Another community member just posted this URL with his project in the forums: http://www.dgsdesigns.com/Storyline/pirates/story.html - "pirates" is the folder with all the files published by Storyline and he links to the story.html page in there to show it.

Andre van der Merwe
Author

9 years ago03/02/15 at 9:05 am (UTC)

sorry, so I created a domain www.dtours.co.za which the content will be uploaded to, but when I upload it and want to search for it on the web via www.dtours.co.za, it doesn't open the content directly it first displays the Story_html folder and once I click on it only then does it display my work. I would like to not have to click Story_html I want it to open directly.

Sorry for this

Nicola Appel

9 years ago03/02/15 at 9:11 am (UTC)

Ah, I think I now understand. When you go to www.dtours.co.za, your browser looks for an index.html page - that's usually the default page to display a website. Try renaming the story.html file to index.html and see if it displays right away.

Another option would be redirecting your index.html page to the story.html page but I think the first option is easier...

Alex Stanton

9 years ago03/02/15 at 9:23 am (UTC)

Morning Andre,

Make sure your uploading the whole folder uncompressed i.e. not zipped,

then on server check the permissions of the file Read access only i would think if you want to research a bit about the permissions in FTP look up CHMOD, there are numbers that assign permissons i.e 666 gives all user read and write permissions (which i dont think you want)