[H-GEN] Web page creation on windows, serving on linux

Jason Rees JasonR at btr.qld.edu.au
Thu Jul 17 18:46:30 EDT 2003


[ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and     ]
[ Unix-related topics. Posts from non-subscribed addresses will vanish. ]

> Alex Delaforce wrote:
> | I would like to use Dreamweaver on my Win XP box to create 
> sites  and 
> | then upload my files to my Linux box (both on same LAN). Macromedia 
> | Dreamweaver can connect via LAN or FTP. I am not sure about how to 
> | connect the two machines. Do I set up Samba or an FTP server on the 
> | Linux box? Do I need Samba Server running on the Linux box 
> to enable 
> | the transfer of files from Xp to the apache web directory?
> 
> I quite regularly use either SMB when I'm using Dreamweaver 
> for transferring files.  If you care about the file 
> permissions, however, I recommend FTP.
> 
> The other method I use (unavailable under Win32 without cost) 
> is using NFS, which works nicely.  Cygwin with SSH can also 
> be useful if you're on the web and don't want to risk 
> unsecured protocols.

Hi Alex,

I also use Dreamweaver and Apache on Linux and find FTP to be the easist.
You may find that the FTP server on the Linux machine is already installed.
Try setting up the FTP transfer in Dreamweaver and see if it works.

Jason

--
* This is list (humbug) general handled by majordomo at lists.humbug.org.au .
* Postings to this list are only accepted from subscribed addresses of
* lists 'general' or 'general-post'.  See http://www.humbug.org.au/



More information about the General mailing list