-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On September 19, 2003 2:49 pm, Nick W wrote: > hmmm, is Quanta trying to edit the file directly on the server, or DL'ing a > temp one like the HTML-Kit? You may not have permission to edit the file > directly on the server. Its odd that it doesnt seem to be forwarding your > password, but that may just be Quanta hiding it for security. > I'm positive I have permissions to do it. It's the same username/password as I supply to HTML-Kit, or to an FTP program such as gFTP, which do allow me to access files.
> Just got Peters mail, which seems to confirm my suspicion. Id FTP a copy to > my local machine, edit, and FTP back. Its not bad practice to have a local > backup of your entire site anyway if your site resides on a commercial > server...I do all my edits locally first, then UL. Enables me to do large > updates over days then update the server in one shot. Just some food for > thought. > --Nick > Ya, I know I can use an external FTP program to upload and download. And right now that's what I do. The beauty of doing it directly on the server from within the IDE is a) it's easier, generally seemless to do edits, b) some of the pages on this site are ASP - there's no use having them locally, as I can't run them. I need to put them on the server to see them work, so why not do it from within my IDE? You're right, I should have a local copy of the site (I do know a thing or two about web development, since that's mostly what my boss pays me to do), but this site is a bit of a special thing in that it's over 750 megs, mostly images (no, dear reader, it is most certainly not the kind of site you just pictured in your mind), and has grown to be like that indepedantly of my involvement. Also I'm not the only developer on the site, so maintaining synchronization is a bit of a pain (yes, yes, put it all in CVS, sounds like a nice idea doesn't it?). I know that having the only main copy of the site be the one at the ISP is a "bad thing", but that's not the problem I'm trying to solve right now. :-) Ian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/a3BYSiY+RXI7JS4RAmZ0AJ9OArKWiG/mhmXR86b0JddXtfoyCACbBiNl Znh5scOh5C31M6eTd3h5OAE= =Y4Av -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
