Associating a Virtual Folder with a Physical Folder Location

You can associate a virtual folder with a physical folder location. The location can be either local or remote.

To associate a virtual folder with a physical location

1. In My webMethods: Administration > Integration > Managed File Transfer > Virtual Folder Management.

2. Select the server instance. For details, see Selecting the Instance to Work With.

3. Select the virtual folder in the virtual folder list. The virtual folder details appear on the right side of the page.

4. Click the arrow to the left of Location to view the folder location options.

6. If you want to specify a local physical location, do the following:

b. Specify the path to the folder you want to use in your local file system by either typing the path or browsing your local file system to locate the folder.

7. If you want to specify a remote physical location, do the following:

For example, FTPES to connect to servers that use explicit FTPS over TLS, or FTPS to enable communication for Implicit mode.

c. Enter the remote path in the format protocol://host:port/relative path (for example, ftp://ftpmc:56/projectfolder/download/).

Important:

Make sure the path ends with “/” to identify the location as a folder and not a file.

You can use user variables in the path. For information about these variables, see Server Configuration Parameters and Variables.

Note:

If you do not specify a port, ActiveTransfer will use the default port for the protocol.

d. Type a User Name and Password for the remote system.

e. If you selected the secure protocols FTPES, FTPS, and HTTPS, specify the keystore path in Keystore, and enter the Keystore Password and Key Password.

By default, ActiveTransfer Serveraccepts SSL certificates from any remote server. You can configure ActiveTransfer Server to accept certificates only from trusted remote servers. For details, see Configuring ActiveTransfer Server for SSL Communication with Remote Servers.

f. If you selected the SFTP transport type, enter the Private Key Path and the Private Key Password, and specify whether you want to enable Two-Factor Authentication to check for two or more authentication types.

g. If you want to quickly check the connection to a remote location, click Test Connection.

h. If you want ActiveTransfer Server to recover from a download that was not completed, select High Availability Download Recovery.

i. If you want ActiveTransfer Server to recover from an upload that was not completed, select High Availability Upload Recovery.

j. For FTP, FTPS, and FTPES protocols, to enable ActiveTransfer Server to connect to a remote server using the passive mode, select Passive. By default, Passive is not selected so that ActiveTransfer Server uses the active mode.