Cyberduck Secure ftp Primer Tutorial
We are trialling a new “sftp” (Secure ftp) file access desktop macOS application to …
- download file(s) from the RJM Programming Apache/PHP/MySql web server to this MacBook Pro … and/or …
- upload file(s) to the RJM Programming Apache/PHP/MySql web server from this MacBook Pro
… an important (along with “cPanel” and “ssh”) access component in the life of a webmaster of an Apache/PHP/MySql domain.
We’ve been using the great FileZilla GUI product for many years, as we first talked about at FileZilla Secure ftp Primer Tutorial, but today it is an interesting comparison with “the what appears great too” Cyberduck Secure ftp product.
The greatest joy we encountered during the “easy as falling off a log” Cyberduck (macOS) install was that it recognized the connection list from those years of FileZilla use, and imported those “bookmarks” into the Cyberduck environment. Yayyyyyyy!
Cyberduck downloads and uploads efficiently, just like FileZilla. The main difference though, is that you just open a “remote” window rather than the “remote” and “local” windows FileZilla presents, but after the initial small shock, it’s easy equivalencing FileZilla “button” habits with Cyberduck “dropdown” habits after a short period of time, as you can see some of with today’s animated GIF presentation.
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 //getfirebug.com/
Both these great tools are plugins for my favourite Web browser Firefox from
//www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
Another important tool for Web Development is an ftp application like FireFTP from
//fireftp.net/
So let’s have a look at Firefox, briefly, and Firebug and FireFTP …
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