Does anybody know a decent freeware FTP utility, preferably that can run in the background, that can mirror a local folder, constantly checking the files there for changes, and then automatically refreshing the FTP folder when the local files change?
WinSCP has a "keep remote directory up to date" feature under the commands tab which I use to do this. It first asks whether you want to sync the whole directory, then automatically uploads any file as soon as you save it. I'm currently looking for a similar solution for Mac.
I am interested in this as well. I know about the Rsync option of course, but would like to have a Windows option that does the same thing..
Thanks Everyone. I ended up using the FastNet NMFTP component in Borland C++ Buidler 5 to write my own Windows Version of Sync.
If you are running on a Linux or UNIX box you can use a shell script that periodically runs under cron to sync a folder to a "master" folder. You could use rsync in that shell script to do the actual sync.
Is that helpful?
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I need to be able to upload a local folder (created daily) to a remote FTP everyday.
I’ve messed with WinSCP file masks (i.e. put -filemask="*>=today" C:\local\ /) and ran into issues where it would upload the latest folder (contained subfiles) but it would also upload the rest of the folders in the directory. (they were empty) I then realized filemasks only works specifically for files, not folders.
I then came across this thread: Download files newer than X days from SFTP server with WinSCP, skipping folders that do not contain any matching files
User had the same issue except he was going Remote -> Local whereas I need the opposite, solution was to use PowerShell
Considering that thread is a couple years old, does WinSCP scripting now support such a feature? Unfortunately I’m a bit of a novice with PowerShell.
Thanks for your time.
WinSCP does not support time constraints for folders.
But what has changed (since the other question) is that now you can prevent WinSCP from creating the empty folders. Use -rawtransfersettings switch with ExcludeEmptyDirectories setting.
put -rawtransfersettings ExcludeEmptyDirectories=1 -filemask="*>=today" C:\local\ /
If you really need to upload the latest folder (as opposite to uploading the folder with the latest files), using WinSCP .NET assembly from your favourite language (like PowerShell) is still the way to go, as shown in the other question.
I'm using coreftp to automatically pull files daily from an external ftp via SFTP. I'm able to pull the files, however despite using the flag 'delsrc', it won't actually delete the source file meaning the files may build up. I think it may have to do with the fact that I can't push to the ftp, however I can delete the files through the coreftp GUI. Thanks for the help
I recommend to use use: "FluentFTP"
It is better than CoreFTP.
I'm looking to automate an upload of a text file to an FTP site. This upload would need to occur daily, and I have access to a server that would run whatever script needed to do the upload. I've looked around for a solution to this and found some information on howtogeek, but neither idea there seemed to be automatic. I'm looking to do this without third-party software if possible. I would appreciate any pointers.
If you're on windows I'd use vbscript (more functionality can be added easily) or .bat files (if you don't need extra functionality) to call on windows FTP.(Provided you don't need anything super secure) Just build the .bat file to call on FTP and append the connection information accordingly. The link Here should help you out. Now in order to make this automatic you need to use the "Task Scheduler" to schedule how you want the script to run.
I have a website written in PHP under source control (SVN). I would like to move at once all my files from the website directory to production server.
The problem is that in this folder there are folders of SVN (.svn). The second problem is that i do not want to put on the server only files under source control, but also other in this folder (images, css, and so on).
Could you please tell me how to do this? It would be nice if it would be repeatable - that so I would have only one command to execute.
And if there would be any possibility to optimize uploading (not uploading not changed files) to make whole process of going production faster would be nice too.
EDIT:
My development environment is Eclipse PDT and favorite FTP filezilla.
You can use the export function of subversion, this will allow you to export all files under version control, but also all files NOT under control. Both methods will skip the .svn folders.
You didn't mention your client, but Tortoise has the 'export unversioned files too' option.
See here for commandline syntax
You can use an ftp client if it's support filters (exclude .svn folders, i.e FlashFXP).
Currently I'm using Nusphere PhpEd IDE's built in feature called "Smart upload", so it only updates changed files (with modified time changed).
I use rsync which is a fast command line tool which only sends the changed parts of files. You can set it up to exclude .svn directories as outlined here:
If you wish to continue doing this with fileZilla you can go to View->Filename Filters and select to ignore SVN and CVS directories. You can also only upload changed files with FileZilla however I find rsync far faster. As rsync is command line based you could easily hook it up with Eclipse as an external tool to enable 1 click transferring
You can use springloops, they cover SVN commit and checkouts but most importantly deployment to FTP server with a click of a mouse...
I stumbled recently on the same issue running Ubuntu 9.
In FileZilla you can choose ignore filters which contain even presets to prevent copying .svn folders and windows .thumb files! You can find this in the View menu under Filename filters... Works like a charm!
Thumbs up for the FileZilla folks!
This should a quick question for some easy rep.
I'm doing some PHP Website development, decided to check out and play around with jQuery as well. I don't want to install and manage a local PHP server/service, but I would like a quick one click method for automatically uploading the PHP file I'm working on to my hosting service so I can test it live.
I'm looking into some different editors like Komodo Edit, Notepad++ but I'm wondering what tool has the ability to one click FTP for me?
Edit after a few posts came in:
Well Shoot, Ultra Edit costs around $100, and Aptana allows you to upload to their "Cloud", but you have to purchase the cloud space. I already have my own server. I'll have look into BlueFish a bit more....Thanks for the help guys.
I'm thinking I might try using Notepad++ and just write a batch file to run windows built in FTP, make a connection and copy all the files in a folder in auto-overwrite mode. Seem feasible?
I have a setup that I use FileZilla as the FTP, and NotePad++ as my text editor.
Within FileZilla, I set NotePad++ as the default text editor, and when I hit Ctrl-S within the file I am working on at that time, it automatically uploads those changes to the server.
You will be able to edit the preferences within FileZilla (http://filezilla-project.org) to set your default text editor, this is something you should be able to do with any FTP program.
Check out this post for more information: http://linhost.info/2008/01/notepad-and-filezilla-tip/
UEStudio has integrated (S)FTP, SVN, etc, plus the ability to open a file over FTP - of course, it actually just downloads to a temp file, but each time you press save, it uploads it to the server again.
I'm pretty much obliged to point out just now that you might want to reconsider your decision to avoid a local development environment. Using XAMPP, it's ridiculously easy to set up a local web server. There are a multitude of benefits to this, far too many to list, even.
The Aptana IDE can do one-click upload via FTP and also synchronize all files between your local environment and remote server (based on timestamps) with one click as well.
Bluefish can edit the file directly on the FTP server. I'm not sure if the Win32 version can do that though.
i use e-texteditor. It's some kind of textmate clone, only is better :P
I have used sublime text with sftp pluggin.
sublime3 and
sftp pluggin
You only need to config sftp file on root folder.
Works quite good.
Regards
Most advanced editors/IDE's like Zend Studio allow adding FTP servers and editing files directly. Once modified, pressing Ctrl+S would update the file on server.