I want to edit files on my server, but don't want to always upload the files, is there a way on to edit the files remotly?
I tryed to make an bash script which should upload the files, but its not realy good :/ and sometimes didn't worked
You can use Atom with the
Retome FTP edit
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If you have got an SSH (SFTP enabled) access to your server, an option would be use use SSHFS to mount a remote directory on your local working path.
In this way you can use any editor (or even something else) to change your files and they will always be synchronised.
Just keep in mind that, in this way, files are actually located on your server, you won't have a real copy on your local machine.
Given:
Connection to the Uni's secure shell like this:
me#my_computer~$ ssh <my_name>#unixyz.cs.xy.com
Password:***********
Welcome to Unixyz. You now can access a terminal on system unixyz:
my_name#unixyz~$ ls
Desktop Documents Pictures Music desired_document.pdf
my_name#unixyz-$
Taks/Question:
Getting the desired_document.pdf to my own system. I have thought of some options so far:
1)Since i can access an editor like nano I could write a C/Java programm , compile it in the home directory and make that program send the pdf. Problem with that: Had to code a client on the Uni machine and a server on my own system. On top of that I only know how to transfer text given to the stdin and no pdf's. And its obviously too much work for the given task
2) I found some vague information about commands: scp and sftp. Unfortunately, I can not figure out how it is done exactly.
The latter is basicly my questions: Are the commands scp and sftp valid options for doing the desired and how are they used?
EDIT:
I received a first answer and the problem persists: As stated, i use:
scp me# server.cs.xyz.com:/path/topdf /some/local/dir
which gives me:
/some/local/dir: no such file or directory
I'm not sure in which environment you are.
Do you use Linux or Windows as your every-day operating system?
If you are using windows, there are some ui-based scp/ssh implementations that enable you to transfer these files using an explorer based ui.
For example there is https://winscp.net/
You can indeed use scp to do exacty that, and it's easier than it might look:
scp your_username# unixyz.cs.xy.com:path/to/desired_document.pdf /some/local/dir
The key is the colon after the servername where you add your path
Optionally you can pass in the password as well, but that's bad practice, for obvious reasons.
I actually got the answer myself and the error that I was having. Both, the guy with the answer and the commentor where right. BUT:
scp must be launched when you are in YOUR terminal, I always tried to do it while I was connected to the remote server.
2 hours wasted because of that.
I'm trying to edit files on a remote Amazon EC2 Linux instance. I'm currently just sshing in and using nano, but would really like a graphical text editor. I have two problems:
I have to use sudo to edit these server files when I ssh in.
I can only login with the key Amazon gave me. Ex: ssh -i Andrew.pem ec2-user#55.55.44.33
Please help! I'm not picky, just any graphical text editor since using nano is a huge pain.
For remote editing, there are lots of options here: This answer, like any other, is sure to become outdated as more options enter the field.
For vim, the netrw module meets this need, and is shipped with the editor by default.
For emacs, this is available with TRAMP.
For the ATOM editor, see the remote-files plugin.
For IntelliJ, editing files on remote hosts is supported in the commercial edition.
For Eclipse, see the Remote System Explorer from the Target Management project.
I'd suggest starting with the editor you prefer and evaluating options from there. If you set up your SSH session to be able to authenticate directly to root (password auth is best disabled for root, but if you have sudo you can install RSA keys), then you'll be able to specify root as a target user for any of the above.
By contrast, if you really do need sudo, you still have options:
See Using tramp to open files sudoed to root on the Emacs wiki. New versions also support a ssh+sudo transport, meaning this wiki entry may already be out-of-date.
To help anyone that just need a quick command line text editor:
you can use vi:
vi file-name.txt
or nano:
nano file-name.txt
optionally use sudo if editing the file, eg:
sudo nano file-name.txt
Just modify the appropriate files on your local machine and scp the file into the remote machine.
scp <local_machine_path_to_file> remoteUser#remoteHostName:<filePath>
amazon now acquire Cloud9, which is a browser-based IDE that can edit your EC2.
https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/
Today I found two products that can use sudo, they are
MobaXterm (free version) and SmarTTY
MobaXterm has a button in the file browser that enables sudo mode. You can view, create and edit files as a sudo user. Use this switch when necessary.
Unfortunately, this only works through the SCP protocol.
SmartTTY works differently. When you try to save a file that requires sudo, SmarTTY throws an error and immediately suggests trying to save the file with sudo
Of the two products, I recommend MobaXterm.
Sudo is for root privileges for that particular command. You will need to use root privileges to edit system files. Even on a local machine. If you don't like typing sudo every time, you can type sudo -s. You will change to root user and it will show you in terminal i.e. root#ip.... The $ sign will also change to #. Honestly, I prefer not going root, because it is easier to make irreversible mistakes with root privileges. I've made some mistakes and I'm talking from experience...
As far as the second part of your question goes, you can configure various text editors to sftp into your instance such as sublime.
You will have to use the .pem key file every time you ssh using terminal. This is because AWS takes security very seriously. You can put the key file in your home directory. That way you don't have to change directories every time you open up terminal.
You can also edit a local copy of files and then use FileZilla to transfer. Setting up FileZilla to work with your EC2 instance is straightforward. You can give vim a try since it colors your code and is more advanced than nano. Use the command vi or vim from terminal.
Happy SSH'ing ;).
ssh -X user#server.
You have to make appropriate setting for forwarding.
I use SFTP Net Drive SFTP, which let you create a virtual drive on your local computer that will map the remote file system accessible via SFTP protocol. After the map is created, you can use the editor of your preference.
You can use nano, vim, vi or many others. However if you want to edit with a graphical text editor you will have to create SFTP since Amazon does not support FTP. One way is to use filezilla to upload your files. Here is a video on using filezilla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VawBMj29g0o I suggest SSH though. Its fast and easy here is a video on that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2-3HoRjBH4
I found a weird workaround for a GUI based text editor on AWS, I used Jupyter Notebook. If you have Anaconda installed on you instance, you follow the following steps
ssh onto your instance using ssh -i <location of your private key> <username>#<public DNS>
Start jupyter notebook on your instance using jupyter notebook --no-browser --port=8888
Open a new terminal window and ssh onto your jupyter notebook using ssh -i <location of your private key> -L 8212:localhost:8888 <username>#<public DNS>
Now you can open jupyter notebook at localhost:8212
Using the jupyter notebook environment, you can not only launch and run Ipython notebooks but also create and edit any files like a text editor.
would really like a graphical text editor
You cannot have a graphic editor, you need to use any editors like nano as you said or vim,emacs. Sudo would be required when you have to edit configuration files with root as owner.
To assist others with this same question, I would suggest jEdit. It is very capable, and it has a very rich plugin environment, language parsing, etc.
http://www.jedit.org
It has "always" supported sftp read and write of files with the sshConsole plugin.
I use it now on my AWS EC2 instance with the key pair supplied by AWS.
Lastly, it is not a good idea to edit files owned by root in the "production" environment.
Do your dev work in the AWS user's home folder so that you have full control of the source files. Then use a symlink to the actual server's file tree so you can serve it to yourself for testing. There are lots of controls in nginx and apache to limit who can view your dev site.
EDIT/UPDATE:
The NppFtp plugin to Notepad++ profides sftp access to AWS. I just tested it with the .pem file that they provided for my login at AWS.
For this, i'd suggest one of:
Learn and use emacs; it's quite powerful as far as textmode editors go.
Install your favourite graphical editor on the server and use X forwarding, 'ssh -X server.com'. This will allow you to launch the editor remotely, but have it display locally.
Most elegant in my opinion, use sshfs (https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs) to mount the remote directory locally, so you can work on the files directly using your favourite text editor.
I am trying to set up the access control for my personal website on synology NAS. Right now I am using DS212J. I found the following article teaching how to use "htaccess" on apache to achieve that.
http://www.synology.com/support/faq_show.php?lang=enu&q_id=347
But I encountered 2 problem:
1) I don't have the command "htpasswd" after ssh to my DS212J.
2) After I manually create those files, I got the username and password prompting up on the website. However, the password in "admin.pw" and "normal.pw" doesn't work when I type in. I am not sure whether it is because I didn't use command "htpasswd".
What am I missing here?
Thanks.
The htpasswd executable is at /usr/syno/apache/bin/htpasswd. As that directory is not on the PATH, you have to explicitly use the whole path to use it:
Apache doesn't keep passwords in plain text, it uses a hash of them so that even if someone gets access to the password file they won't be able to log in. That's why you must use htpasswd to create the file.
For anyone who comes across this, I couldn't get that synology support tutorial to work either. I am running DSM 5.1-5022 Update 4 on my own domain with ssl. Here's how it got it working:
Follow the steps in the following wiki: Synology Wiki
In the control panel, go to "Web Services" and disable SPDY for secure connections. (Gleaned from this article.)
Good luck.
I would like to do the following simple thing:
When a folder is referenced in a web site (i.e. href='folder1/pic.jpg'), I want the server to actually look in another folder (i.e. 'folder2'), where the actual 'pic.jpg' will be.
I believe this can be done by connecting to the server via SSH and then setting something up there, but I don't know what.
Could anyone give me an example?
Thanks!
You can try going into your document root (cd) and executing
ln -s folder1 folder2
I think this is the thing in ssh you're talking about. Alternatively, you can edit server config there, but that requires more input.