Editing files on FTP servers

[tolian]

Hi all,
I have a thorn in my side.. I am a web developer and work alot with perl, php and html... Often I have to edit scripts or pages on a webserver, and I really hate having to download files and upload them again after I finish editing them... So far I have not found any software for linux that supports perl, php and HTML and also allows you to open/edit remote files...

I heard that there is a way to mount an FTP connection as a folder, although have not been able to find out how.

If anyone has any ideas on how this can be done, or any other good way to solve my problem, please feel free to share them =)

Thanks

[demian]

Originally posted by tolian:
<STRONG>I heard that there is a way to mount an FTP connection as a folder, although have not been able to find out how.</STRONG>

Here (http://ftpfs.sourceforge.net/) you go.

[tolian]

Excellent this is just what I was looking for!

hehe, perhaps in a few months I'll be writing my own file systems :cool:

Thanks alot for the help!

[Gnu/Vince]

Emacs has this feature IIRC. Vim 6 will also have it

[tolian]

The FTPFS was rather buggy heh, and unfotunately I could never really get it to work stable enough with writing files back to the server for it to be a viable option...

I tried to find how to use the FTP feature in Emacs, found something called ange-ftp but still havent found out how to use it...hehe, still searching :)

[Molecule Man]

Can you get a shell account? That would work best.

[tolian]

Yea I didnt think of that! Thanks!
It works for some servers, but I also found out how to use the FTP feature in Emacs :)
So now I think I am pretty much set :)

SSH and Emacs will take me the rest of the way :)