[SOLVED] Edit html on the server

Pedroski · 11-12-2021, 02:51 PM

Before, I only ever had shared hostings, which usually come with cPanel or Plesk. Both of which are great.

Now I have a cloud server with Ubuntu 20.04

nano is a great tool, but I would prefer to use something a bit more sophisticated.

Turbocapitalist told me to avoid using graphical interfaces on the server.

On my localhost, I use Bluefish.

Is it possible to open edit and save remote files using Bluefish?

Or is there some other cool tool?

EDIT: It's amazing! I use Filezilla to upload files to the server.

I found, if I right click in Filezilla, I can open a file from the server in Bluefish on my local machine, edit it, save it and Filezilla will re-upload!

That is good enough for me!

ondoho · 11-13-2021, 01:11 AM

FWIW, I usually use sshfs do locally mount the remote filesystem, then edit and move/delete files with my usual GUI tools.
In 7 years of maintaining two servers I have never used filezilla.

Turbocapitalist · 11-13-2021, 01:23 AM

I second the recommendation for using sshfs for that. However, it should be mentioned that Bluefish has an upload/download function, with the same for normal Save As, at least on one desktop I have.

File -> Save As -> Other Locations -> Connect to Server -> sftp://pedroski@www.example.com/

They both seem to use the basic file manager for operations, so it may be different on a different desktop setup. You'll have to check.

Edit: Open will also work with remote connections like that.

Pedroski · 11-13-2021, 09:31 PM

Thanks for the replies.

I will read up on sshfs!

I will also try the upload function from Bluefish. That seems to be for whole folders, not single files.

But first, I tried to save 1 file on the server from my laptop. My user name on the server is pedro.

I thought I would be prompted for my password.

I entered

sftp://pedro@www.mywebsite.com/20BE4/

in the "Connect to Server" box in Bluefish

I get:

Quote:

Unable to access location
Connection refused by server

I can access the server via ssh, no problem.

I obviously need to allow Bluefish access. How would I do that?

Pedroski · 11-13-2021, 09:46 PM

@ondoho

These instructions for sshfs are from digitalocean.com

Quote:

To start we will need to create a local directory in which to mount the droplet’s file system.

sudo mkdir /mnt/droplet <--replace "droplet" whatever you prefer

Could I just create a directory in my home folder? Does this have to be sudo?

Pedroski · 11-13-2021, 10:14 PM

I installed sshfs, then I tried:

Quote:

pedro@pedro-HP:~$ sudo mkdir -v /mnt/mywebpage.com
[sudo] password for pedro:
mkdir: created directory '/mnt/mywebpage.com'
pedro@pedro-HP:~$ sudo sshfs -o allow_other,default_permissions pedro@123.456.789.123:/ /mnt/mywebpage.com
read: Connection reset by peer
pedro@pedro-HP:~$ sudo sshfs -o allow_other,default_permissions,IdentityFile=/home/pedro/.ssh/my_cloud_ed25519 pedro@123.456.789.123:/ /mnt/mywebpage.com
read: Connection reset by peer

What can I do about "Connection reset by peer"??

I can access the cloud server easily through normal ssh:

Quote:

pedro@pedro-HP:~$ ssh -p 22000 -i ~/.ssh/my_cloud_ed25519 pedro@123.456.789.123
pedro@123.456.789.123's password:

ondoho · 11-14-2021, 01:23 AM

No, you don't need sudo, you can use a dir under your $HOME.

Quote:

Code:

sudo sshfs -o allow_other,default_permissions pedro@123.456.789.123:/ /mnt/mywebpage.com

don't use sudo with sshfs (or ssh)!
Also that command differs significantly from your normal ssh login:

Quote:

Code:

$ ssh -p 22000 -i ~/.ssh/my_cloud_ed25519 pedro@123.456.789.123

a) you're trying to access the root folder /. That's wrong. You probably want your remote $HOME (make a symlink to /var/www in your remote $HOME).
b) you need to specify the port if it isn't 22.

I also wonder why you use an identity file yet it still asks for your password. But that's a separate problem.

Pedroski · 11-15-2021, 01:23 AM

Thanks for your reply again.

As far as I understand it, this: pedro@123.456.789.123:22000/ should get me to the $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], which is public_html.

The port for this server is 22000

I tried using the port number in the command. The first time it asked for my password, but still gets: "read: Connection reset by peer"

Repeated attempts just give: "read: Connection reset by peer"

I tried this:

Quote:

pedro@pedro-HP:~$ sshfs -o allow_other,default_permissions,IdentityFile=/home/pedro/.ssh/my_cloud_ed25519 pedro@123.456.789.123:22000/ /mnt/mywebpage.com
fusermount: user has no write access to mountpoint /mnt/mywebpage.com

So made a folder in my home directory: mywebpage.com

Quote:

pedro@pedro-HP:~$ sshfs -o allow_other,default_permissions,IdentityFile=/home/pedro/.ssh/my_cloud_ed25519 pedro@123.456.789.123:22000/ /home/pedro/mywebpage.com
fusermount: option allow_other only allowed if 'user_allow_other' is set in /etc/fuse.conf

Tried again without "allow_other"

Quote:

pedro@pedro-HP:~$ sshfs -o default_permissions,IdentityFile=/home/pedro/.ssh/my_cloud_ed25519 pedro@123.456.789.123:22000/ /home/pedro/mywebpage.com

Still get "read: Connection reset by peer"

Maybe there is some setting on the server that needs adjusting??

Turbocapitalist · 11-15-2021, 01:56 AM

You need the -p option for the port.

Code:

sshfs -p 22000 -o default_permissions,IdentityFile=/home/pedro/.ssh/my_cloud_ed25519 pedro@123.456.789.123:/var/www/public_html /home/pedro/mywebpage.com

Also the mount point needs to be writable. If it's just you doing the writing then just change the ownership of the mount point.

Pedroski · 11-16-2021, 05:27 PM

Thanks very much!

Worked perfectly!!

Well, I had to add a little to get to the right folder:

Quote:

sshfs -p 22000 -o default_permissions,IdentityFile=/home/pedro/.ssh/my_cloud_ed25519 pedro@123.456.789.123:/var/www/mywebpage.com/public_html /home/pedro/mywebpage.com

Now I will try editing as usual in Bluefish!

One more small thing: how to I unmount this sshfs? I won't need it open all the time!

Turbocapitalist · 11-16-2021, 11:48 PM

You can unmount it either way:

Code:

umount /path/to/mount/point

fusermount -u /path/to/mount/point

Note there is only one 'n' in umount. The second option is also available because sshfs uses the FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) kernel module.

As usual, be sure to at least skim the manual pages for each of these tools so that they become more familiar:

Code:

man sshfs
man umount
man fusermount