making things easier and sftp

[sylvantino]

Now that the vast majority of webhosts have been forced into changing their ftp to secure ftp thanks to the GDPR, its made uploading realtime.txt from the 1.9.4 a nightmare for those like myself who have zero experience with having to run an external program then having to hope that the file transfers to the site. I have gone through trying numerous webhosts and each of them had sftp. So I got to reading that MX has ftp ssl , but is this the exact same as sftp? I am also completely new to mx and i am so lost with it, surely there could be an easier way to run this software even through an interface similar to 1.9.4? I would really like something as easy to run as 1.9.4 with mx if this is the latest incarnation of the software or a spin off.
Does this latest build support sftp and where can i get the mx documentation on how to run it? thank you.

[jhobson67]

Hi, I'm in a similar position. SFTP is an acronym for SSH File Transfer Protocol. It's a do-it-all protocol, based on "Secure Shell" crytpography and isn't the same as SSL which is now obsolete (TLS being the current protocol).

I've just spent a frustrating time trying to get help from my webhost (1&1 Ionos) only to be told as 1.9.4 doesn't support SFTP, there is nothing they can do their side. This is really annoying as I usually use Filezilla (no problems), but have read about a workaround using WinSCP (which Ionos provide as a download link), but WinSCP simply refuses to log onto my FTP server!

My station has only been up for 3 days, and I would like to get the data online, but this is vexing me. Looks likely I shall have to go the MX route to.

[water01]

MX is the latest and greatest version of Cumulus. Cumulus 1 (v1.9.4) will not be update to include SFTP.