RE: [cobalt-users] Re: FTP Problem

["Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Dan - thanks for that, I'm new to talking to my server so I'm 
> not too hot on what to say.  Could you describe how to 
> use'cp'?  I'm assuming it's the method of copying.
> 
> Jonothon - The file are hidden.  I found out how to see them 
> with a GUI FTP client and downloaded them to my hard disk to 
> play with (keeping back-ups of course).  They're in 
> usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/ - I found that on the Cobalt knowledge base.
> 

Via SSH, (don't use Telnet, install SSH), you simply first cd
/location/of/file 
then cp file.ext file.ext.old so you have a backup on the server.
You should have uploaded the file if you edited it locally to some
directory, e.g., /home/sites/home/web so while still in
/usr/admserv/html/coobalt/ you just do 
cp /home/sites/home/web/file.ext file.ext and it replaces the file. Be
sure, if it's a text file to upload in ASCII and make sure you didn't
introduce and line wraps. I prefer NoteTab Pro, <www.notetab.com> but
any text editor will work. Don't use MS Wordpad.
If there's a problem, you can always cp file.ext.old file.ext to put the
original back.
This can be very important if you work with any .conf file that may
affect FTP and stop you from uploading.

-- 
Dan Kriwitsky

 


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