bric_ftpd

NAME

bric_ftpd - Bricolage virtual FTP server

VERSION

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DATE

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SYNOPSIS

su nobody -c "bric_ftpd -S"

DESCRIPTION

This program controls the Bricolage vitual FTP server, which can be used to allow access to Bricolage templates. This may provide a more comfortable development environment for programmers working on templates. Many editors provide FTP modes that make editing files via FTP almost as easy as editing files locally (ange-ftp for Emacs, for example).

There are security risks to consider - FTP sends passwords unencrypted over the network. If you are running Bricolage behind a firewall this might not be a problem.

To enable the FTP server you'll need to install the Net::FTPServer Perl module. After that you can configure the FTP server with the following bricolage.conf directives:

ENABLE_FTP_SERVER: Set this to 1 if you want to use the FTP server. Defaults to 0.
FTP_PORT: The port that the FTP server will run on. Users will need to know this port to connect to the FTP server. Since you won't be running the server as root you'll need to choose a port above 1024. Defaults to 2121.
FTP_ADDRESS: Normally the FTP server will bind to all the available IP addresses for your machine. If you set this variable then the server will only bind to the specified address.
FTP_LOG: Set this to the file where you want to FTP logs written to. Defaults to $BRICOLAGE_ROOT/ftp.log if not set.
FTP_PID_FILE: Set this to the file where you want to the FTP daemon PID stored. Defaults to $BRICOLAGE_ROOT/ftp.pid if not set.
FTP_DEBUG: If you set this to 1 you'll see a lot of useful tracing information in the FTP logfile. This can help diagnose errors but is probably only of interest to developers. Defaults to 0.

Next you'll need to start the FTP server as the same user that Apache runs as. For example, if you run Apache as "nobody" you would use this command to start the FTP server:

su nobody -c "bric_ftpd -S"

The -S option to ftpd runs the FTP server in the background. For other possibilities see the documentation for Net::FTPServer.

Once the server is up and running connect to it with an FTP client and start editing templates. For more information see Bric::Util::FTP::Server.

To kill the FTP server in daemon mode, use the -k option:

su nobody -c bric_ftpd -k"

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