Windows FTPManager Ftp Client Primer Tutorial
We are always on the lookout for good tools to do with the fundamentals of Web Server maintenance. Our view of what are the essentials for the maintenance of an Apache/PHP/MySql web server (like for the rjmprogramming.com.au domain) are …
- cPanel … for monitoring and process control purposes … web application
- power management … for rebooting purposes … web application
- ssh … for logging on for tasks such as crontab maintenance … desktop (command line) application
- sftp (or ftp) … for the day to day transfer of files to and from the web server to clients … Mac OS X and Windows … can be desktop or web application such as FireFTP (for Firefox web browser)
… and today we look at a product new to us, that we became aware of recently, facilitating the last of those … sftp (or ftp) … involving a Windows local client and web server remote computer to transfer files to and from.
The Windows desktop product new to us, that seems really very good, and you should consult regarding the early slides of our slideshow today, to see for yourself, is called FTPManager Lite by Deskshare Incorporated.
And so, with today’s slideshow …
- the early slides were done off a Macbook Pro to suss out the product, the slides of which were transferred to our web server by the FileZilla sftp (or ftp) client (which we’ve discussed previously with FileZilla Secure ftp Primer Tutorial as shown below) … and …
- the latter slides were done off a Windows PC to install and use the product, the slides of which were transferred to our web server by the FTPManager ftp (or sftp) Client
We found FTPManager to be very easy to use and navigate immediately, just what you want for an FTP Client, and if you see good slides in the slideshow today you can thank FTPManager for it … thanks.
Guess this begs the question regarding what takes up most time maintaining an Apache/PHP/MySql web server, for us? In order of use, with highest amount of use up the top, it would be …
- sftp (or ftp) … for the day to day transfer of files to and from the web server to clients … Mac OS X and Windows
- cPanel … for monitoring, some installations, some builds and process control purposes
- ssh … for logging on for tasks such as crontab maintenance
- power management … for rebooting purposes
… and so that may show you how important products such as FTPManager are to those maintainers of web servers. Most likely, though, these products get hammered with use, but achieve quietly and efficiently, without fanfare, for the vast majority of us.
By the way, those role descriptions cross over quite a bit, For example …
- sftp or ftp client can handle file permissions which you may have considered doing using ssh
- cPanel can reboot the web server if available, in place of power management
- ssh can monitor many of the things cPanel can monitor, but perhaps in not such a cute presentation, and can probably host an sftp or ftp session (the other way around) also (with a less cute presentation), and can be used to reboot the web server too … can do the lot, as you’d expect, because a web server is a Linux or Unix or Windows (or some other kind of) “box” (basically) … “box” = computer
Previous relevant FileZilla Secure ftp Primer Tutorial is shown below.
FileZilla Secure ftp Primer Tutorial
When you maintain a Web Server there is often a requirement to upload (from your local disk) to the web server and download (from the web server) files you are working on?
We discussed this previously with Web Server Access Primer Tutorial as shown below.
We think the Firefox web browser addon called FireFTP mentioned in Firefox and Favourite Plugins Tutorial is pretty much the “bees’ knees”.
Today we look into an alternative Open Source product called FileZilla which may fit the bill as well, and it sits separate to any web browser as a desktop GUI application for Windows or Mac. Today we show an install on Windows for the server and client products, the latter of which you’ll use to upload local files via the (s)ftp protocol.
Of course if your web hosting came with other specific arrangements for uploading, that would be a better course of action to invoke.
FileZilla is a pretty friendly and useful tool, but, as we are in the Firefox web browser so often it is hard to resist using FireFTP. Hope you enjoy today’s tutorial … and what could follow?
Previous relevant Web Server Access Primer Tutorial is shown below.
Web Server Access Primer Tutorial
When you maintain a Web Server there are lots of tools of use, but just what do you need to run an Apache/PHP/MySql web server?
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- sftp or ftp (pretty much essential) … s stands for “Secure” as in “Secure Shell”
- ssh or telnet (practically very important)… s stands for “Secure” as in “Secure Shell”
- cPanel (good to have … lots of times is essential) … also see Web Server Primer Tutorial
- phpMyAdmin (if using MySql … comes with cPanel quite often … practically essential if you use PHP/MySql)… also see Web Server Primer Tutorial
With today’s tutorial we show access via a Mac laptop’s Terminal application’s Linux bash session’s access to the web server domain at www.rjmprogramming.com.au using ssh (which is a “logging on” piece of functionality … also see rlogin). This destination CentOS web server environment is also Linux. Also in the picture is a bit showing sftp being used for the transfer of files to and from the web server via your laptop, and we use Firefox plugin FireFTP to facilitate this. There is a Firefox and Favourite Plugins Tutorial regarding this below as well.
Here are some good researching links … so, bye for now …
- ssh and sftp information from Wikipedia
- ssh information from ComputerHope
- sftp information from ComputerHope
- Back to previous tutorial
Previous relevant Firefox and Favourite Plugins Tutorial is shown below.
Firefox and Favourite Plugins Tutorial
Tutorial …
Transcript:
One of the best tools for Web Development is an HTML element analyzer.
There are a few out there by now, but I really like Firebug from http://getfirebug.com/
Both these great tools are plugins for my favourite Web browser Firefox from
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
Another important tool for Web Development is an ftp application like FireFTP from
http://fireftp.net/
So let’s have a look at Firefox, briefly, and Firebug and FireFTP …
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