FTP help needed

[Claude Jones]

Paul Howarth wrote:
>>> Claude Jones wrote:
>>> 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?
> 
> 
> 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.
> 

Thank you. In all the searches I've done for web authoring programs for 
Fedora, I somehow missed Quanta. On first glance, it seems to be more 
powerful than NVU. Between exploring its possibilities and configuring 
sftp, I guess I have my next work defined.

-- 
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA