I found a viable solution with an FTP app for Macs called Forklift 3.
It lets you set up tabs for any number of sites and either drag-n-drop or
copy/paste from one to another. It does the download and then the upload, and
uses FXP if it’s enabled.
According to my ISP, FXP requires a port to
I recall a site to site copy functionality within WHM. Although I haven't
used WHM since I worked with SmoFaddy almost 6 years ago.
Short of that, it seems crazy to think that they would restrict SSH.
Let me know if you need more help, and I can try to research it more.
-Alex
On Mon, Nov 23,
Thanks, I’ll look into FXP.
I’m not using GD for hosting and this is not a one-time thing. I’m finding I’m
having to zip up and copy files from one site to another on a more frequent
basis, so I wanted to be able to do it more directly.
I guess an FTP client that lets me simulate that would be
I seem to remember running this via FTP to FTP connection, I think it was
called FXP? That's the direction I'd start looking at - Wikipedia has a
list of FTP clients that support FXP: Comparison of FTP client software -
Wikipedia
Thanks for the suggestions.
1. I don’t know.
2. I don’t have root access, and am unable to run SSH/SCP.
3. This is a shared server. no console access is allowed. No SSH, no rsync, no
nuth’n.
That said, it’s a full WEB HOST. So I can upload a small php script that could
reach out to the
A few questions here:
1. Are they “running instances” of an OS?
2. If so, can you use SSH/SCP between them
3. Any other networked application (console type) like RSync or similar that
can be used?
Otherwise, unless you have root access to the original image, I am not sure
what else you can do.
I have a “reseller” type shared hosting account where I have a WHM that lets me
create cPanel accounts. IOW, I don’t have root access.
There’s a skel folder on the main account, and when i create a new cPanel
account, it copies files into the new account. Pretty standard for *nix systems.
I’m
