Getting Round An FTP Problem?

demon8991 · 24 Oct 2006 at 12:39

Im at uni and i have my own webserver but of course my uni blocks the ftp port, are there any websites that let you access ftp through html if you catch my drift.

wizardmaxx · 24 Oct 2006 at 12:43

I just upload to my gmail account. The 2.7gig is more than enough for me.

rpstewart · 24 Oct 2006 at 13:07

Does your hosting provide a web control panel? Most of them come with a file manager that can be used to upload via a browser.

afraser2k · 24 Oct 2006 at 13:08

Can't you try SSH/Secure FTP through port 22? Probably easier to go with GMail. I'm not sure what the status of the "GMail Drive" application is these days but I used to use that when it first came out.

wizardmaxx · 24 Oct 2006 at 13:10

afraser2k said:
Can't you try SSH/Secure FTP through port 22? Probably easier to go with GMail. I'm not sure what the status of the "GMail Drive" application is these days but I used to use that when it first came out.

Don't know what u mean by status, but my gmail drive works fine.

demon8991 · 24 Oct 2006 at 13:40

I do have a control panel but it doesnt use internet ports.

I need to be able to access my webserver as it has a website and forums running on it.

tonyyeb · 24 Oct 2006 at 13:43

Add this to your website when you next get FTP access

http://www.gleamtech.com/products/wexlite.asp

Works a treat!! No need for FTP and it is free for personal use.

afraser2k · 24 Oct 2006 at 14:52

wizardmaxx said:
Don't know what u mean by status, but my gmail drive works fine.

Development status or if Google were somehow blocking it.

demon8991 · 27 Oct 2006 at 18:25

tonyyeb said:
Add this to your website when you next get FTP access

http://www.gleamtech.com/products/wexlite.asp

Works a treat!! No need for FTP and it is free for personal use.

I am home now but i cant seem to get this thing to work ive put the wexlite folder in my root folder but when i type the address in.

http://mywebserver.com/wexlite/

it doesnt work, just comes up with a list of files.

tonyyeb · 27 Oct 2006 at 21:05

demon8991 said:
I am home now but i cant seem to get this thing to work ive put the wexlite folder in my root folder but when i type the address in.

http://mywebserver.com/wexlite/

it doesnt work, just comes up with a list of files.

Isnt that what you was after???

demon8991 said:
are there any websites that let you access ftp through html if you catch my drift.

demon8991 · 28 Oct 2006 at 12:48

Yer its what im after but i cant seem to get it to work on my server...

I need to be able to upload to my server.

tonyyeb · 28 Oct 2006 at 16:19

Which bit doesn't work? The upload? Have you clicked the upload button on the top right? If so whats the error message?

demon8991 · 28 Oct 2006 at 17:24

No i dont even get a page to do that like i said

http://mywebserver.com/wexlite/

just brings up a list of files and folders in that directory not a upload page.

tonyyeb · 28 Oct 2006 at 18:44

Does it look anything like this?

demon8991 · 29 Oct 2006 at 10:18

No it looks like this.

Uhtred · 29 Oct 2006 at 11:01

you need to go to ftp:// not http://

demon8991 · 29 Oct 2006 at 11:02

No thats the whole point, i dont want to use ftp ports at uni, i need to be doing it through http://

MaxPower · 29 Oct 2006 at 11:32

Does your hosting have ASP support?

If so you may need to change the name of default.asp to index.asp and see if that works.

If it doesn't have ASP support but PHP there are alternatives but we will cross that bridge when it arrives.

By the way there are several web based ftps like: http://www.net2ftp.com/
I personally have only ever trusted ones that I have hosted.

tonyyeb · 29 Oct 2006 at 11:45

Zap said:
you need to go to ftp:// not http://

No he doesn't

MaxPower said:
Does your hosting have ASP support?

If so you may need to change the name of default.asp to index.asp and see if that works.

If it doesn't have ASP support but PHP there are alternatives but we will cross that bridge when it arrives.

By the way there are several web based ftps like: http://www.net2ftp.com/
I personally have only ever trusted ones that I have hosted.

Spot on. But i would not change the default.asp to index.asp. Instead in your hosting control panel you should have an option to set default documents. Add default.asp to the list.

csmager · 29 Oct 2006 at 11:52

tonyyeb said:
No he doesn't

Spot on. But i would not change the default.asp to index.asp. Instead in your hosting control panel you should have an option to set default documents. Add default.asp to the list.

The file listing he gets looks more Apache than IIS. ASP probably isn't supported (unless the host installed Apache::ASP)