Website/FTP Management

[John Bray]

On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 09:59 -0300, Jean-Rene Cormier wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 09:35 +0100, Jonathan Allen 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.
> 
> I use lftp for that, I just create a file with what I want it to do,
> open host then mirror (with the -R option) the content of the website
> then I just need to run lftp -f file and it'll do it automatically. Also
> lftp can connect to sftp servers so if you have ssh access you don't
> even need an ftp server running on the remote host.
> 

i just installed a package called sitecopy.  i haven't had time to play
with it yet, but i believe it does just what you want to do.

john