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Managing a website with SFTP

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Managing a website with SFTP

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- [Person] Using SFTP to work with our lab server is a good way of practicing with tools and workflows, but let's switch gears and work on a real server on the Internet. I'll upload and edit a website on a cloud server that's already been set up. Managing an existing website is a fairly common task where we'll use SFTP. Servers for websites generally come in two different configurations, one common configuration is the kind we find if we sign up with a web host and they provide us access to a shared system where we can store our site. Usually, this is the easiest way of working with a website because we'll generally have a directory right inside our user's home directory that represents the place where the website files go, and so, we don't really have to worry about permissions that much, we would just connect with our SFTP client, find the appropriate directory, and work with files, and the web host handles the details. The other configuration is the kind we find when we spin up a…

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