Pagekite + FTP
Jean Ventura
amazing technology, specially for people like me who don't know that
much about web stuff. I was hoping to get some help with and issue i
have:
Like I mentioned: I have very poor knowledge of web services/servers,
and I'm trying to configure Pagekite to access my personal server via
FTP or SFTP. Can't seem to find anything anywhere, is there somewhere
i can go or read to get this done?
PS.: Sorry for any misspelling or bad grammar, English is only my
second language.
Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Jean Ventura <jeancv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Like I mentioned: I have very poor knowledge of web services/servers,
> and I'm trying to configure Pagekite to access my personal server via
> FTP or SFTP. Can't seem to find anything anywhere, is there somewhere
> i can go or read to get this done?
I am afraid PageKite can not support FTP, due to problems with how the
protocol is designed - it is very old. However, SFTP is more modern
and should work, at least with some clients.
First you will need to set up an SSH server (SFTP is part of SSH) and
then configure your PageKite to expose that. Instructions on this are
here:
http://pagekite.net/wiki/Howto/SshOverPageKite/
As yet there are no specific instructions for SFTP on our site, so you
may need to do some experimenting yourself once you have SSH working -
maybe you can help us improve the wiki! :-)
If you need help, please be sure to tell us more details about which
SFTP client program you are using. The things to look for are HTTP
Proxy options, as explained on the wiki page I linked to above.
Good luck!
--
Bjarni R. Einarsson
Founder, lead developer of PageKite.
Make localhost servers visible to the world: https://pagekite.net/
Jean Ventura
Hello Jean, welcome to PageKite! :-)
Jon Spriggs
Something else to bear in mind - where are you flying your PageKite
from? Is it your local computer, or is it on a server somewhere? If
it's the former, than you probably don't need to SFTP or FTP to/from
it. Many of the web development applications assume that you'll need
to upload your files to a server before they run, but don't realise
that actually, you can just copy them to a location on your system -
if this is what you've got going on, then you could set up a simple
FTP server, and point the ftp client in your application to
"localhost".
It's not the best way of doing things, but sadly, so many applications
make assumptions about the way the environment is going to be, based
on old ways of doing things, it's not always accurate.
--
Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs