FTP help needed

[Claude Jones]

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?

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Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA