Introduction / Absolute FTP: Connecting to the Server
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I will show you one last way to connect to your server using Absolute FTP, which is a fantastic, fantastic FTP program. I'm going to create a new session, and the name is going to be called CFM resources server, just like in Cold Fusion studio, and again I am not going to show you what the username and password is. But we are using FTP. So, after I click ok, you will see what we see, but just hang on a second. OK, so now we've got our new connection, let's actually connect and there we are. Now, one of the cool things, and I will just sort of hit this really quickly for you experienced web masters out there, sometimes when you have a document and especially if you are doing PERL and you need to know what the absolute path is to a document, you have to go - oh, well what was that full path that it was. Well if you go, if you are using Absolute FTP you can go out, find the actual file, tag it, go down and say copy path or copy URL. Now copy URL doesn't quite know because it doesn't know, Absolute FTP doesn't know where in here is the root. Maybe there is some more in here, I can't remember, but copy path is really cool. Because you click on copy path, and then for instance let's say that this is your text editor, you just paste it right in and look at that. There is in the whole URL, that is pretty neat. Funky but chique as they say. So what I am going to do now, and actually right after this I am going to start authoring the admin pages of chapter 5 and jumping over chapter 2 and 3, I am going to copy some of these over just so you could see what an actual session looks like. This is the old site and the new site I believe is in here. So I can just copy all this, just drag it right over, and it will also copy recursive directories, fine use that. That's pretty quick. Then again, I have a DSL connection, so if it doesn't know what a file is, for instances if it had never encountered a CFM file, Absolute FTP will ask you how you should transfer it - ASCII or binary, and give you the option of saying transfer that way all the time for now on, which is pretty neat. So you could see now that it created the admin subdirectory, as well as a log in sub-directory. All recursively and happily thereafter. So now close this, yes. I come back over here, I click on web, it goes out and it gets what's in the directory, and we should now see all the files that I just FTP'ed out there, and there they are. So now I can edit these indirectly on the website. I am going to click on, I'm going to close default, say no, click on default, hit the delete key, say yes, come out to the web site, say refresh and boom - looks like I've got to fix an image, but there it is: pretty simple. - looks like I've got to fix an image, but there it is: pretty simple.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Macromedia ColdFusion |
| Author: | Mike Muller |
| SKU: | 33287 |
| ISBN: | 1930519656 |
| Release Date: | 2001-12-19 |
| Duration: | 8 hrs / 86 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | For Online University members only |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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