The key bit here is UK2.
Seduced by their advertising I have purchased a domain and some simple hosting from UK2, not realising that they only support an FTP program
called Filezilla or some such thing presumably running on a platform I
don't have.
I, of course, want to use my favourite and reliable FTP program to do
the necessary under RISC OS.
What I lack is the necessary incantation.
So is there anyone out there who has successfully connected to this
provider using FTPc, and could they tell me the magic bit enabling them
to do so?
Without giving too much away, I already have a site
small.thing.free.fr�, so decided my new site would be called smallthing.space, this latter bit being a new alternative to .com,
.co.uk etcetera.
I believe that this will be accessed, unlike my free.fr site, with a preceding www. - but I don't think that's relevant.
I used my [email protected] address to register, so my UK2 user name
is that - with or without the .free.fr bit - I am unsure in this context.
It appears that the last bit after the @ sign doesn't start with "ftp"
like many - that gives an immediate fail - and should correspond to the domain, so I've been trying "smallthing.space". An odd way of doing
things, but there it is.
The key bit here is UK2.
Seduced by their advertising I have purchased a domain and some simple hosting from UK2, not realising that they only support an FTP program
called Filezilla or some such thing presumably running on a platform I
don't have.
I, of course, want to use my favourite and reliable FTP program to do the necessary under RISC OS.
What I lack is the necessary incantation.
So is there anyone out there who has successfully connected to this
provider using FTPc, and could they tell me the magic bit enabling them to
do so?
Without giving too much away, I already have a site small.thing.free.fr�,
so decided my new site would be called smallthing.space, this latter bit being a new alternative to .com, .co.uk etcetera.
I believe that this will be accessed, unlike my free.fr site, with a preceding www. - but I don't think that's relevant.
I used my [email protected] address to register, so my UK2 user name is that - with or without the .free.fr bit - I am unsure in this context.
It appears that the last bit after the @ sign doesn't start with "ftp" like many - that gives an immediate fail - and should correspond to the domain,
so I've been trying "smallthing.space". An odd way of doing things, but there it is.
So, before bothering Colin, who is always very kind and helpful, I thought I'd first see if anyone here had achieved my goal and could offer guidance.
My first fail was of the pattern:
ftp://small.thing:[email protected]/
John
� Note: "small.thing" is a fiction for illustrative purposes, and I have checked it doesn't (yet) exist at free.fr.
Thank you, Jean-Michel, but using ftps:// which, though it gets highlighted here in Pluto, doesn't seem to do the same in FTPc or even StrongEd.
Richard, thanks for drawing my attention to the program. It does seem
useful in telling one which bits are called what, and I'll keep it for the future, but it doesn't seem to throw any light on the current problem, and there isn't a field to accommodate Jean-Michel's suggestion of a protocol edit.
In the absence of a working solution here, I think I'll widen my search to the RISC OS Open forums.
Thanks again, though, for your input.
John
The key bit here is UK2.
Seduced by their advertising I have purchased a domain and some simple hosting from UK2, not realising that they only support an FTP program
called Filezilla or some such thing presumably running on a platform I
don't have.
Fill in the following information at the top of the screen:
a. Host:�Enter your domain.co.uk (Replace domain.co.uk with your domain
name, the�server name, or the server's IP address)
b. Username:�Enter your cPanel username
c. Password:�Enter your cPanel password
d. Port:�Leave this field blank
Thank you, Jean-Michel, but using ftps:// which, though it gets
highlighted here in Pluto, doesn't seem to do the same in FTPc or even StrongEd.
Richard, thanks for drawing my attention to the program. It does seem
useful in telling one which bits are called what, and I'll keep it for
the future, but it doesn't seem to throw any light on the current
problem, and there isn't a field to accommodate Jean-Michel's suggestion
of a protocol edit.
In article <65bbdd3c$0$3269$[email protected]>,
John Williams (News) <[email protected]> wrote:
Thank you, Jean-Michel, but using ftps:// which, though it gets
highlighted here in Pluto, doesn't seem to do the same in FTPc or even StrongEd.
Richard, thanks for drawing my attention to the program. It does seem useful in telling one which bits are called what, and I'll keep it for
the future, but it doesn't seem to throw any light on the current
problem, and there isn't a field to accommodate Jean-Michel's
suggestion of a protocol edit.
You may find that if you fill in the boxes and save it to the FTPc menu
it will concatenate the entries into a single line like you have been
trying but in the right order with the correct delimiters.
I have entered details in the appropriate boxes on my system which get assembled into a single line in the FTPc Menu.
Regards,
Richard.
This has been/is an interesting subject, as I've always had *big*
troubles trying to make sense of FTP configuration.
I use FTPc on RISC OS, and with luck and advice from others years ago did eventually get FTPc configured with my accounts.
Years ago I did look at FTPcEdit but didn't understand much of it.
For example...
What's the Host?
What's the Path?
What Flags need listing?
User what is that?
Password is obvious. :-)
Aside from Passive, I have no idea what the remaining config are.
So here we have an edited example line from my FTPc Menu, which in it's original form works. :-)
name="Dave webspace";
value="ftp://daveweb:[email protected]/"
What among all that is what?
Thanks
Dave
What among all that is what?
Apart from how any flags would be incorporated, I think my immediately previous posting deals adequately with that.
In article <65bcae8d$0$11912$[email protected]>,
John Williams (News) <[email protected]> wrote:
Apart from how any flags would be incorporated, I think my immediately previous posting deals adequately with that.
Sorry, I see that I didn't mention path, which is the bit after the "/"
in the server bit - at the extreme right: That would be a path through
any sub-directories.
For example, if you, Dave, had a directory on your site called "Faye",
you would add "Faye/" on the end after the "/", and that would directly display the contents of directory "Faye" instead of the root directory
of your site.
John
That leaves me with a big question...
Why is the first entry in FTPCEdit not showing the configs for that ftp entry?
Mnnn!
Dave
In article <[email protected]>,For the site to appear in usermenu=> edit, when you are connected, use
Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
[Snippy]
This has been/is an interesting subject, as I've always had *big*
troubles trying to make sense of FTP configuration.
I use FTPc on RISC OS, and with luck and advice from others years ago did
eventually get FTPc configured with my accounts.
Years ago I did look at FTPcEdit but didn't understand much of it.
For example...
What's the Host?
What's the Path?
What Flags need listing?
User what is that?
Password is obvious. :-)
Aside from Passive, I have no idea what the remaining config are.
So here we have an edited example line from my FTPc Menu, which in it's
original form works. :-)
name="Dave webspace";
value="ftp://daveweb:[email protected]/"
What among all that is what?
Thanks
Dave
Later... Revisiting, FTPcEdit I now see some of it... and why I was
confused (mostly still am.) ;-)
When I open FTPcEdit I'm presented with an almost blank form, it just has
a name in it, the name is the first one of the FTP configs in the FTPc app menu.
But FTPcEdit does not show any of the details as set in the FTPc app menu. That's confusing... Because in FTPc it works perfectly okay.
I've only just noticed there are up and down arrows at the top left of the entry window, which if clicked takes me through the other entries in the
FTPc app menu, all of which have details entered.
I still don't understand most of the entry fields, but looking at the ones that do have entries I can see what's needed in some of my previously
noted questions.
That leaves me with a big question...
Why is the first entry in FTPCEdit not showing the configs for that ftp entry?
Mnnn!
Dave
For the site to appear in usermenu=> edit, when you are connected, use
FTPc menu=> Add to user menu.
The key bit here is UK2.
Seduced by their advertising I have purchased a domain and some simple hosting from UK2, not realising that they only support an FTP program
called Filezilla or some such thing presumably running on a platform I
don't have.
I, of course, want to use my favourite and reliable FTP program to do the necessary under RISC OS.
What I lack is the necessary incantation.
So is there anyone out there who has successfully connected to this
provider using FTPc, and could they tell me the magic bit enabling them to
do so?
FTPc works fine as usual. The "incantation" is of the usual form I quoted earlier:
ftp://<yoursitename>:<password>.<yoursitename>/
where <yoursitename> is your [second-level domain name "." top-level
domain], the bit like [BBC "." co.uk], or [Google "." com]. That is, your domain bit.+-
An alternative provided is to substitute "stackcp.com" for the second <yoursitename>, giving:
ftp://<yoursitename>:<password>.<stackcp.com>/
So, to summarise, I was worrying unnecessarily about FTPc, and although I
had some hic-cups with UK2 initially, it must surely have been exceptional, otherwise they wouldn't have any customers! All sorted out now, but took
10 days. All fine now. Bit surprised it didn't work from the start,
though.
ftp://<yoursitename>:<password>.<yoursitename>/public_html/
or
ftp://<yoursitename>:<password>.<stackcp.com>/public_html/
and if you wanted to display/access a particular folder's contents, say "Faye", you would add "Faye/" to the end of that. That last bit was for Dave, who was puzzled about the word "path".
So, to summarise, I was worrying unnecessarily about FTPc, and although I
had some hic-cups with UK2 initially, it must surely have been exceptional, otherwise they wouldn't have any customers! All sorted out now, but took
10 days. All fine now. Bit surprised it didn't work from the start,
though.
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