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?
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?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.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?
The regular ftp protocol sends usernames and passwords in plain text over the wires and isn't the best way of doing this.
I don't *think* nvu supports sftp at the moment.
Ideally the authoring program would support sftp directly so that it could upload changed pages to the server. Quanta Plus can do this, and is included in the kdewebdev package in FC3.
Alternatively, you could maintain a local copy of the site and then use an intelligent ftp client like lftp to synchronise the version on the web server. lftp can also use the sftp protocol.
Paul.
