Website/FTP Management

[Dave Cross]

On 6/28/05, Jonathan Allen <jonathan at barumtrading.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Can anyone recommend a good package for maintaining a remote website
> using FTP ?  I manage several websites, keeping the 'master' on my FC3
> machine - what I need is a way to have the remote website look like a
> mirror of my master tree.  I looked at the 'mirror' package, but it
> works exactly the other way round.
> 
> Any good recommendations ?

I recommend not using FTP for this as it transmits passwords in plain text.

Better to use scp. Your best route would probably be to use rsync with
ssh as the underlying protocol.

Dave...