I have an apache server set up at home and I am working on a maintenance site to add to our web site which is hosted elswhere. Basically I am training on Apache, PHP, MySQL, and HTML and trying to produce something useful in the process. I have been using Quanta & Bluefish as editors. Haven't decided which one I like the best yet. I have been using VNC to connect to the server from work to edit the pages. This is pretty slow. Not bad, but I need better solution. Does anyone have a better solution? I have tried using SSH and VIM as the editor but I'd really rather use bluefish or my windows html editor at work. I thought of FTPing the pages back and forth but I'm not sure how to access those files via FTP. I can access my home directory. There are a few things I could try. I could mount the HTML directory in my home directory for instance. But I just thought I would ask and see if anyone has come up with a better solution.

Use putty's psftp ( http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ ) or WinSCP ( http://winscp.sourceforge.net/eng/ ) to transfer the files through OpenSSH, which will save you installing a FTP daemon on the server and is a lot more secure.

If your work box was *nix I'd suggest enabling x-forwarding in OpenSSH, (so you can use bluefish directly on the server), but that may be as slow as (or slower than ) VNC.

Oddly enough, when I switched to using Quanta as the editor, VNC worked just fine. I can't imagine why Bluefish would VNC to lag so bad. It doesn't make any sense to me but if I use Bluefish on the remote box and I type 5 letters, I have to wait for screen to update. With Quanta it hardly notice I'm connected remotely.