Blog & Login & FTP

[Bill Davidsen]

Thom Paine wrote:
> I set up a blog on my home server and the blog files are located in
> /var/www/blog. I have a virtual host called blog.domain.ca on apache.
> This part is all working well.
> 
> I'm trying to figure out how to give myself outside FTP access so that
> I can edit the content there via FTP instead of logging in with shell
> and using nano to edit files. Some of the blog stuff allows you to
> upgrade if you have FTP access.
> 
> Would I just create a user called blog for that? How can I set it so
> that when I login I see the /var/www/blog folder and have access to
> those files? What permissions should that folder have?
> 
Use sftp.

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