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Gorga wrote: Alrighty, I'm having no trouble getting into my Keenspace account, now, but still cannot connect with my FTP.

Are you saying not to use my FTP program?

Excuse me if I seem a bit computer illiterate, but I have no idea what is meant by "logging into ftp through the command line"...

Gorga wrote:Excuse me if I seem a bit computer illiterate, but I have no idea what is meant by "logging into ftp through the command line"...

ftp wrote: Connected to faub.keenspace.com.
220 ProFTPD 1.2.9 Server (KeenSpace::YDK FTP Server) [ydk.keenspot.com]
User (faub.keenspace.com:(none)): faub
331 Password required for faub.
Password: <your password will not appear when you type>
230 User faub logged in.

ftp wrote: 530 Login incorrect.
Login failed.

ftp wrote: ftp> bye
221 Goodbye.

• CD or CHDIR: Changes directories within your ftp tree. If you open windows explorer (not just my computer), on the left you will see a directory tree. You can click the +/- to expand and hide the subfolders. This is the same concept as the ftp directory tree except that you don't have a pretty graphical interface. YOU have to remember where you are in the tree. Your Keenspace directory will look something like this:
  -+ / (root directory)
  -|---+ /public_html (the "hot" directory where the real files are stored)
  -|---|---- /public_html/images
  -|---|---- /public_html/d (your comic archive pages)
  -|---|---- /public_html/comics (your comic images)
  -|---|---- /public_html/workspace (this a symlink to /workspace)
  -|---+ /workspace (put indextemplate.html and dailytemplate.html here)
  -|---|---- /workspace/webpages (put all other .html or .css here)
  -|---|---- /workspace/images (this is a symlink to /public_html/images)
  -|---|---- /workspace/comics (put all comics here)

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  Examples:
  cd /workspace   [i](moves from anywhere in the tree to /workspace)[/i]
  cd images [i](moves from /workspace to /workspace/images)[/i]
  cd ..  [i](moves backward from /workspace/images to /workspace)[/i]
  

• PWD: Literally "print working directory." This will display the current path you are in. "Path" means the path you would have to traverse from the root of the directory tree to reach the directory you are in.
• MODE or ASCII or BINARY or BIN or ASC: These commands determine the mode of the file transfer. In FTP there are two modes, ascii which is meant to transmit only text and binary which is meant to transmit images and executables. DO NOT transmit an image using ascii mode. You will get a corrupted image. You CAN safely set the mode to binary and transmit text files, though.

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  mode binary  (set to binary mode)
  200 Type set to I
  mode ascii
  200 Type set to A
  binary
  200 Type set to I
  ascii
  200 Type set to A
  bin
  200 Type set to I
  asc
  200 Type set to A
  

• PUT: put copies files from your hard drive to your ftp account.

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  put images/coolpic.jpg

  This will copy coolpic.jpg from your images directory to the images directory on Keenspace. NOTICE: The directory you are in on the command line MUST have an images directory containing the file coolpic.jpg for this to work. Alternately you can type out the origin AND destination address but this takes work. Better to set everything up right beforehand.

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  put c:\keenspace\images\coolpic.jpg images/coolpic.jpg

  Putting a file will overwrite whatever is already there.
• GET: get copies files from your keenspace ftp account to the current directory on your computer. It works exactly the same way as put except the direction the file travels is reversed.

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  get indextemplate.html
  or
  get images/coolpic.jpg c:\keenspace\images\coolpic.jpg
  

• DEL or DELETE: This will delete a file on the ftp site. This will NOT delete a directory. Keenspace generates some files on your account that you cannot overwrite. /public_html/index.html is an example (not that you should want to delete it). In order to copy your own version of a file into Keenspace you may need to first delete the original. If you're only uploading to /workspace/webpages then you shouldn't have a reason to use this command. Notice, though, that you can only delete one file at a time. Entering "del *" will actually return an error. This makes deleting all the files in a directory (/public_html/d/*) a problem. This is where GUI clients are very useful because they will send a del for each file without making your type the command each time.

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  del /public_html/badpage.html

• MDIR: Literally "make directory." This will create a new directory under the current subdirectory. Or you can specify a full path to the directory you want to create.

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  mdir banners
  or
  mdir /workspace/data
  

• LS: This is unix shorthand for "list" and is used to get a list of files present in the current directory of your ftp account.

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  ls
  or 
  ls -l
  

  Notice that ls -l gives you much more information that just a list of files. You may notice your user name listed next to some of the files. This means that you are the owner of said files. You have the right to do whatever you like to them. There is also a "0" user. This is autokeen. You do NOT have the right to overwrite these files. You DO have the right to delete them. The column just to the right of your username is the group numer. You and autokeen share the same group and this gives you some minimal access to autokeen's generated files.
• ?: This is the help command. Using it alone will give you a list of available commands. In windows there are 42. In unix there are a few more. I'm not listing all of them here. You need to do some research for yourself.

Example of Updating a comic with the command line:
(I keep all my Keenspace stuff in a directory called "keenspace."  The rest of the directory structure matches the Keenspace FTP site on my computer.)
c:\>d:
d:\>cd keenspace\workspace
d:\keenspace\workspace\>ftp faub.keenspace.com
... stuff ...
ftp> cd workspace
200 command successful
ftp> put comics/20040101.jpg
... stuff ...
ftp> put indextemplate.html
... stuff ...
ftp> put images/somebodys_banner.jpg
... stuff ...
ftp> put webpages/links.html
... stuff ...
ftp> bye

Kisai wrote:It isn't possible, you have to physically be connecting to the wrong server to get that message since the FTP uses the exact same password field in the system for siteadmin as well.