FTP help needed

[Paul Howarth]

Claude Jones wrote:
> 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?

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.