Web based FTP tool

Post by **daj** » Wed 17 Nov 2010 8:37 pm

Hi ya'all,

I pulled together a tool which could hopefully help all of us who are starting out, or are already deep into, website development and customisation. One of the first things you need to establish is a tool to upload your pages to your webspace. This is known as FTP(ing) and there are a variety of great tools out there to download and use.

I thought I would offer one which is web-based. The clear advantage is that there is nothing to install, simply surf to the web address, login to your website and off you go uploading and downloading. However there is much more, and by far the greatest feature in my view is that you can edit 'live'. So within the web tool you can edit your CSS (Stylesheet) or your HTML web pages. Great if you are doing PHP work. Even better you can have it syntax highlight to help with spotting errors and typos. You can also download your site as a ZIP for backup purposes.

Feel free to use the site..... http://glohosting.co.uk/ftp

(I did not develop the tool, but I have customised it slightly)

laulau · Post by **laulau** » Wed 17 Nov 2010 10:02 pm

Very usefull to manage the web site from somewhere else without ftp facility

Thanks David

captzero · Post by **captzero** » Fri 19 Nov 2010 6:41 am

Hi David,

Sounds interesting but I'm getting a time out error when trying to connect to the site. I'll check back later.

EDIT: Working now. Thanks

PaulMy · Post by **PaulMy** » Sat 20 Nov 2010 2:16 am

David, how would I use this (without much understanding of all the FTP, etc.)? I have learned to do a bit of edit on my webpage and use FileZilla to ftp, and Cumulus or Weatherlink does the rest for me. What would be my FTP server to enter? what Username, Password, etc.?

Paul

captzero · Post by **captzero** » Sat 20 Nov 2010 3:47 am

Paul,

Have a look at your internet settings in Cumulus. All your details are there. That's what I used and connected without any probs.

Cheers

PaulMy · Post by **PaulMy** » Sat 20 Nov 2010 6:01 am

Thanks Dan, I will try that.

Paul

PaulMy · Post by **PaulMy** » Fri 26 Nov 2010 4:28 am

Tried it at son-in-law's and with him found it very easy to work

very neat. Thanks David and Dan.

Paul

mcrossley · Post by **mcrossley** » Fri 26 Nov 2010 9:18 am

And presumably (not tried it) it will work through corporate firewalls/proxies that block ftp?

Post by **daj** » Fri 26 Nov 2010 9:42 am

mcrossley wrote:And presumably (not tried it) it will work through corporate firewalls/proxies that block ftp?

Correct

DaveNZ · Post by **DaveNZ** » Sun 19 Dec 2010 11:41 pm

I just realised how valuable this feature can be, thanks for providing it David!

I'm just away from home at the moment and noticed my web page said Monday 2 December - so logged into the FTP tool and of course I had accidentally put trim($day,"0") (cuts leading and trailing zeroes off the value of day) instead of ltrim($day,"0") (cuts leading zeroes only off the value of day)

Quick edit and save and all good now

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