local folder mounted as ftp

jon23d · 06-13-2006, 03:22 PM

I am using bluefish for web development, but it lacks ftp integration. I would like to have a local folder with mounts for all of my ftp servers. They require user and pass, but from what I understand NFS doesn't support this. Is there another way of doing this?

ex:

/home/user/ftp_folders/site1->ftp://www.site1.com
/home/user/ftp_folders/site2->ftp://www.site2.com
/home/user/ftp_folders/site3->ftp://www.site3.com

nx5000 · 06-14-2006, 09:49 AM

Funny I tried to do exactly the same a few days ago.
I also use bluefish, quite nice.

For the ftp stuff, you need to have FUSE enabled in your kernel
To verify if you have this feature:

Code:

zgrep FUSE /proc/config.gz
or grep FUSE /boot/config-`uname -r`

should give

Code:

CONFIG_FUSE_FS=y

what follows is debian specific, adapt it to your distro :you have to find fuse-utils (which does sshfs, an ssh server mapping to a directory) and fuseftp for the ftp part.

Code:

apt-get install fuse-utils

add this to sources.list:

deb http://debian.jox.be ./
deb-src http://debian.jox.be ./

apt-get update
apt-get install fuseftp

mkdir -p /mnt/ftpfs/site1
chown -R root:fuse /mnt/ftpfs
chmod g+rx /mnt/ftpfs
chmod go+rwx /mnt/ftpfs/site1
addgroup deb_user fuse

$fuseftp /mnt/ftpfs/site1 myuser:mypass@ftp.site1.com:/web/

and then you have your ftp site on /mnt/ftpfs/site1

As a side note, grsync is good for syncing two directories, so combined with the above trick, you can synchronise local dir with a ftp site.

jon23d · 06-14-2006, 04:26 PM

Thanks! That's definately what I'm looking for. While I haven't been able to get it to work yet, I'm sure that I will!