Installing Your New Page(s) on a Server
Because Jmol functionality depends on a Java applet and Javascript, it is only easy to install pages containing Jmol on plain vanilla web servers (ie. Apache).  These instructions may not work for Microsoft servers (anybody with access to one who tests this let me know the results). If you are using a content management system (CMS) these instructions are likely to fail as most CMS installations don't allow random applets or javascript to function within them.  CMSs are also difficult to load a whole directory structure into.  Some of the Jmol team is working on embedding Jmol in wikis (see the Jmol wiki for more information). If you do not know how to add content to your web server you should discuss this with your web administrator before attempting to install Jmol pages.
You will need to load a number of files onto your server.  The best way to accomplish this is to make an ftp or sftp connection to your web server.
Some possible software choices for file transfer are Filezilla for Windows, MacOS or LINUX, MacOS Finder for ftp, Fugu for sftp on MacOS, and the standard fileviewer in most LINUX distributions.
  1. Upload the Jmol applet onto your server in the appropriate place, usually somewhere near the top of the directory structure you have access to (see Installing Jmol on Your Server).  You only need to do this once or if you upgrade your Jmol applet.
  2. Upload the directory (the whole thing, not just its contents) containing your web page to a location in your server directory structure so that the path to Jmol that you specified will be correct.  See the path to the Jmol applet for more information on how to organize your server directory structure.

Last Update: August 13, 2009
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by J. Gutow