FTP Question for Newbie

Tony33221 · 09-10-2005, 02:14 PM

Thanks in advance for helping.

I have my own server, off at an ISP, Centos, running proftpd.
I have secured most things by learning, and use putty to do all that stuff, only using ssh via putty to do things now.

My question is: how do I upload a file to my server, since I am using proftpd?
I want to upload a product to install, that I have on my PC at home.

Do I need a separate ftp client to upload this file? If yes, or no, how do I accomplish ftp'ing to my server, client or commands?

david_ross · 09-10-2005, 02:23 PM

You will need a client to upload via ftp but if you are using ssh to be secure I would suggest using sftp or scp - ie:
scp /path/to/my_product.file user@server.ip.or.hostname:/path/to/where/you/want/the/file/

Tony33221 · 09-10-2005, 03:45 PM

Would I be using the putty client or some other client to do this and how? (thanks much in advance)

david_ross · 09-10-2005, 04:00 PM

Just do it from the command line.

If you are using a windows client you might want to look at using winscp though.