Make our site an FTP
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I have been asked to set up an FTP upload login for a photographer of ours. How do I go about turning our regular web account/server into an FTP.
And, for security reasons, can it be set up so they are uploading to somewhere besides the main area of our web server so they can't access all of our HTML pages and image folders?
thanks
- rson0
http://macromedia.com/software/c… This program may be what you need.
- blueless0
or you can check your servers control panel and designate a folder for him/her and give him/her a password for just that
/directory/
- ♣0
would that be something I do through my netadmin?
Or can I do that in a program like Fetch?
thanks
- sparker0
creating ftp directories and user accounts is normally a server side configuration, preformed by an admin.
some site admin panels give you system level control like this.
you could always just use an upload app - written in perl or php. http://hotscripts.com/ has dozens to choose from.
most are free.
- oberon0
the internet explorer FOR WINDOWS act like an ftp server too (upload/download).
instead of http:// you write:
ftp: // username : password @ ftp.account.com / directoryit takes a lil bit of time, but it works.
what you can do is to build this page on an iframe, pointing straight to the folder you allow them to use.
drawbacks:
only for windows
kinda slow
you better .htaccess this page, otherwise anyone can get the ftp info
your client can see the source and go to other folders as well (but if he wants to destroy what he bought, there's nothing you can do to prevent it)
- oberon0
in fact my problem now is to do the same trick on mac os x... safari recognizes the ftp :// ... but opens a window you can download a file, but not upload (what is the use of it?)
- sparker0
those are horribly insecure ways of handling ftp.
it could (and probably will) open your server up to bad things.
it is safer to either set up ftp access at the server config level or to use a php/perl web app to do it for you.
- oberon0
i'm taking a look at the site you said, it's real better (both mac and pc, and no security problems).
i did it for a small site hte client wanted to update by himself. open all possibilities for him is sure a headache for me.
and don't ask for contribute, it was a small site. i still wanna see ppl talking good about this app...
- sparker0
huh? i'm sorry, but i really didn't understand all of that.
:)