HOW TO: Deploy MobiOne WebApp To Your Web Server

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Hello Support (Wayne, Octavio).

Can you please provide a short example about how this exactly works. First of all I do not have a directory named <project>_export. And I think, I mixed up parts of the resources in my first tries.

If I have the following structure
– main.mobi
– sub1.mobi
– sub2.mobi

and main.mobi contains links/buttons in a button bar to sub1.mobi and sub2.mobi.

I have the following structure in the file system

Demo
-main.mobi
-sub1.mobi
-sub2.mobi
+main-www
+sub1-www
+sub2-www

I exported all three “forms” in a new directory on my desktop named “test”. There are three folders in there: main-www, sub1-www, sub2-www and that means that their subdirectires (e. g. res) exist 3 times. I did so since I assumed that this is “keeping the same” structure of your last hint in this thread. I put this test folder completely to my web server using ftp.

But it didn’t work. Linking to the html page in my main-www directory and calling this with an iPhone leads to the correct page, but the button bar at the bottom is not visible; it seems it is hidden by the safari bar. If you manage it (it takes several times) to scroll a bit, then you see the part where the button bar ought to be. But this area is blank and dead. Just white, no images, not buttons, no function. Therefore I cannot link to the sub pages.

What did I do wrong??

Thx in advance.
JohnJake2

Hi Wayne.

Sorry for bothering you again with this topic. But I am still experiencing problems with this.
First of all, I updated to MobiOne 2.0 and “restructured” the folder structure. Everything still works fine in the Test Center.

But when uploading the complete content of my (one and single) “main-www” folder via FTP to the server, calling it with the iPhone just leads to an empty (white) page without any errors or messages.
What am I missing?

Furthermore I found these steps in your text above:

Step-1a: if you have been using the Design Center’s Run-in-Test-Center action, then the webapp content for your mobile app has already been exported and can be found in a subdirectory of your main design file. For example if you have a design file: c:/designs/mydesign.mobi then look for the subdirectory c:/designs/mydesign_www/

Step-1b: You can explicitly generate HTML by using the Export as HTML action from the toolbar. The HTML Export Wizard will allow you to provide a custom directory into which the HTML will be generated

In my case, I have these differences:
Step-1a: if you have been using the Design Center’s Run-in-Test-Center action, then the webapp content for your mobile app has already been exported and can be found in a subdirectory of your main design file. For example if you have a design file: c:\designs\mydesign.mobi then look for the subdirectory c:\designs\mydesign–www/ (slashes and underscore).

Step-1b: You can explicitly generate HTML by using the Export as HTML action from the toolbar. The HTML Export Wizard will allow you to provide a custom directory into which the HTML will be generated
This italic part is invalid in my eyes since I do not have the “Export as HTML” function in any toolbar anymore.

So, maybe taking the complete part of the main-www directory was not correct?! – In any case, I am calling my webpage within the iPhones’s safari like this:

http://www.mydomain.tld/main-www/main.html (haven’t renamed the main-www folder yet).

Is this the correct way?
Thx for your feedback.

JohnJake2