Comments on: upload via FTP in Firefox – FireFTP

By: Wenz

Wenz — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:04:39 +0000

(Iam using Filezilla server & client at present for the school-website/manuel update)

I am looking for a automatic FTP-tool doing the following File-updates after the right configuration
between a Windows-PC (A) and the website (B):
a) Master = A, Slave= B
b) New & updates Files from A >> B
c) deleted Files at A >>> deleting them at B
d) Time-scheduled start of this Update at the PC
2 times per day
my Question:
1. is this possible with fireFTP?
2. if not: do someone know such a FTP-tool? (even if it is not free)

Thanks
Wenz

Automatic 2 times per day

By: Rovie

Rovie — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:49:05 +0000

I love this eisentxon. It is wonderful when I just need to upload a simple file and try it out, like a php page or something and don’t need or want to fire up another app just for that.

By: prisca

prisca — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:24:02 +0000

Jeremy,
what you are trying to do might be best solved another way, possibly just using a service like DropBox (http://dropbox.com) rather than using your own server.
You can of course achieve what you are trying to do – but you would need to understand how to configure your server, set permissions on the different folder according to the access you want to grant etc….
But as you called yourself a ‘noob’ :) I’d think an external service to manage upload might be less of a headache for you :)

Bryan, sorry – I am familiar with VM but have never tried to do what you are trying to achieve, can’t be of any help to you here, sorry.

By: Bryan Poer

Bryan Poer — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:02:13 +0000

I am using Fire FTP to connect to a mainframe running the VM (Virtual Machine) operating system. Just in case you’re not familiar with VM, you can have many userids logged onto the system. Each ID can have one, or many ‘disks’, which have a virtual address, ie. 191, 192, 292, 392, etc. when I connect to one of these disks, the flies show up as the timestamp of the file as the filename and the disk label as the filetype. Also if I FTP the file across, it comes without any data (0 KB). I have tried to check the configuration to see if I can change this and have been unsuccessful. Anyone got any ideas how I can FTP files to a VM system.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:46:46 +0000

I’m setting up our FTP upload and account settings and can’t figure out how to keep the rest of our webserver hidden when someone accesses our ftpdropbox. I don’t want someone to be able to mess with our website files or accidentally delete something. When I go into fireFTP I can not only see the ftpdropbox I want to access…but I can then go up to the parent directories and browse the entire webserver. Needless to say I don’t want to give out unlimited access, I want them to see what I’ve uploaded for them and nothing more. Any tips for the n00b?

By: prisca

prisca — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:10:38 +0000

Gail,
sorry to hear the fresh install didn’t help :(
It seems that your settings remained? ~ I think your idea of deleting the account you set up and starting fresh would be a good idea. You can also have more than one account linking to the same host, no problem. A lot of people use several account purely for a different directory on the server – so I would definitely that :)
good luck ;)

Gary,
not sure what this could be other than a glitch…. have you tried clearing cache etc and making sure you’ve typed in your password correctly (will be case-sensitive)?
I assume you have done this – but can’t think of anything else, sorry.

By: prisca

prisca — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:58:19 +0000

Sorry everyone for the late reply, was away for a few days….

Janna,
about your files – well, without seeing your folder I can’t be sure. If you are only trying to get rid of the pages which went public/online – then you should be doing this via the WordPress admin. Log in and find those posts/pages and set their status to ‘draft’ and update. This will take them offline.
Unless you know exactly what you are doing with WordPress, I would not touch the files on your server. You have it installed and working – so work with it via your admin, rather than using FTP. You will be able to delete anything you don’t want to show online etc….
And yes, your FTP account details are the ones you would use in the ‘host’ details within FireFTP.

By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:46:40 +0000

Ho Precila, I believe I am have a similar problem to Gail, I have just installed FireFTP, set up the account and it logs in and asks for a password again, no matter how many times I enter it the error comes back at me stating there is no password as below. I use another FTP client (transmit) and it works fine?
Any ideas?
USER admin
331 User admin OK. Password required
PASS (password not shown)
530 Login authentication failed

By: Sally

Sally — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:50:04 +0000

Hi.

I am having problems uploading my updated index.html page. The transfer says complete but when I go to http://www.lazonbypool.co.uk to check it is still showing the old version. I have changed and uploaded another page successfully so cannot understand why having a problem with the homepage. Any ideas? Many thanks

By: Gail

Gail — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:55:03 +0000

Hi Prisca,

I tried the fresh install but getting the same error message. Thinking of deleting current account and starting over – or can I have 2 accounts linked to same host?

Thanks for your help.