Paul Howarth wrote:
Claude Jones wrote:
Can someone point me to a good howto or page that describes how to
set up FTP for a website? I just want to allow access to my website
for purposes of updating webpages, etc, from a remote computer...
All the links I'm getting hits to discuss how to set up a FTP site
for file sharing - that's not what I need for now. Or, if the
explanation is short, share it?
If you have sshd running on the web server (likely) then by default
it will have an sftp server enabled and you can just use sftp to
upload files.
The regular ftp protocol sends usernames and passwords in plain text
over the wires and isn't the best way of doing this.
Thanks, Paul. I just tried this, and it looks like I've got to open
Port 22 on the firewall. Do you know if sftp can be used from say NVU,
to publish a site?
I don't *think* nvu supports sftp at the moment.
Perhaps I'm missing a better paradigm, here. I like the idea of more
secure FTP. My old paradigm is to use a web authoring program, such as
NVU (I'm used to GoLive from that other world), to create and manage the
local iteration of a site. When done, publish. For small sites,
uploading pages one at a time as completed, or in small batches, is
fine. Is that what you suggest?
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Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA
