Thanks for the suggestions.
Based on the creativity of the answers, I now realize that there
isn't a a straightforward method that I was thinking I had "missed".
The truth is, I am never very far from my laptop . And I have no
mission-critical apps that can't wait an hour or two until I'm back
in front of BBEdit. But, I just wanted to know my options when the
time comes.
I still intend to try out the WYSIWYGEZ product. It appears to do
what I'm looking for. Pre-installed on my server, it appears to
allow browsing the server for the desired file, and editing in an
html environment.
Anyone have any cautions on this idea?
Thanks
Jonathan
At 9:12 PM -0500 3/18/08, Aaron Hsu wrote:
Hello Jonathan,
Let me see if I can give my version of a solution...
--On March 18, 2008 6:15:14 PM -0700 Jonathan Schwartz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
While on my own machines, I can and do also use screen sharing tools
such as Timbuku and VNC to access the remote web server and perform
edist using the local copy of BBEdit.
However, I am referring to ...and let's use an extreme example...a
clients windows-based system. I can't install or download any new
software.
[...]
What can I do to access my webserver and edit a php file?
I very much dislike web-based version of software, because I find
them to be slow, buggy, and overall, lacking in good integration. To
solve the problems that you are having, I use a slightly different
approach. The main problem is that of having a good editor to use on
a client machine over which you have no control, or at least, very
little.
I use an external device---portable and sufficiently large---to
store the software tools that I would like to use on the clients
machine. I then also have one or two scripts that I use to set up
the environment and then clean up after myself. This works well for
me because I can usually predict the platforms which I will support,
and I can have the appropriate tools on my, say, usb drive for each
platform. It will take a little setup to start, but I find it a more
satisfactory solution than dealing with the webapps.
Here's what I would use on the various platforms:
* Mac: BBEdit or NEdit.
* Windows: Boxer
* UNIX with X: NEdit
* UNIX without X: ed or vi
All of these tools can be run from an external device, and and
behave well in the way they store configuration files, making it
easy to remove and clean up.
I hope this helps! I don't know if this would be a good solution for
you, but it works well for me.
--
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``Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to
live at the expense of everybody else.'' - Frederic Bastiat
--
Jonathan Schwartz
Exit 445 Group
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415-381-1852
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