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Setting Up a Remote Server Mount

Before setting up a mount, make sure the Remote Server you want to mount has already been added and configured.

Select the desired Remote server from the available choices, and optionally enter a Name and Description for this mount. A meaningful name and description helps colleagues, or your future self, refer to the mount later.

Select the Remote Folder on the system that will be mounted onto the folder.

Select the Local Folder of your Files.com site that you want to use as the mount point.

The Root, or Home, folder of your site cannot be selected for mounting a remote server. Mounting at the root would host your entire site on the remote server and prevent you from configuring any other Remote Mounts on the site. To make an entire site a Remote Server Mount, we strongly recommend using a Child Site and configuring its Root folder for a Remote Mount through our CLI AppExternal LinkThis link leads to an external website and will open in a new tab or API.

Mount Setup Restrictions

A mount cannot be set up on a Sync folder, nor on any subfolder within a Sync.

A mount cannot be set up on a File Expiration folder, nor any subfolder within a File Expiration folder.

A mount is mutually exclusive with a folder's geographic Storage Region setting. A folder can be configured with either a Remote Mount or a Storage Region, but not both. When a mount is configured for a folder, it overrides the Storage Region setting of that folder. The geographic storage region of a Remote Mount is determined by the physical location of its associated Remote Server.

A mount cannot be set up on a folder that contains any files or sub-folders.