[OT]Anyone familiar with DreamWeaver

[Jerry Feldman]

On 08/31/2010 08:30 AM, Matt Shields wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org
> <mailto:gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>> wrote:
>
>     On 08/31/2010 07:36 AM, Matt Shields wrote:
>     > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org
>     <mailto:gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
>     > <mailto:gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org <mailto:gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     I know this is a bit OT. The question is how does one upload
>     web pages
>     >     to a site using scp, and not ftp. Apparently ftp is built
>     in. I've
>     >     never
>     >     used DreamWeaver, this is for another guy who is not very
>     computer
>     >     literate.
>     >
>     > I can look tonight when I get home (have it at home, not work),
>     but I
>     > thought it only offered upload via FTP or SFTP.
>     >
>     SFTP is fine too. The issue is that one of the new webmasters for
>     one of
>     my military sites has DreamWeaver, and the BLU server is locked
>     down to
>     allow only ssh-based passwordless transfers. What I need to know is=
:
>     can he save the web pages locally on his system, then upload them
>     to the
>     server using WinSCP like the other webmasters do, or can he use
>     DreamWeaver's built-in features.  But, there are a lot of good reas=
ons
>     that John does not want to run FTP on our servers.
>
>
>
> Absolutely, Dreamweaver is not like M$ Frontpage which has all sorts
> of weird extensions that are required for the site to work.  I'm not
> sure if it can use certs for auth, but you definitely can do local
> development, then use some sort of ssh/scp/rsync over ssh to copy the
> files up.
>
>
WinSCP is a decent utility that allows you to do file transfers using a
file manager-like split window.

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