I have a client who's site is hosted on Google Compute Engine. They insist on having FTP access to the site. I am somewhat new to Google Compute Engine. I currently use FTP using Google's instructions. However my client will not know how to install the Google Cloud Console, download and convert the security keys, log in and move any files they upload in their folder using shell.
What I would like to do is install some kind of FTP server (proftpd or similar) install some kind of GUI they can log into to create users in the future and upload files using filezilla. However when I install proftpd on Compute Engine (Debian Wheezy) and I create a user to test before I install a GUI, the server keeps denying access.
Anyone with experience setting up FTP on Compute Engine for a client that can help?
You should be able to set this up, but as far as I remember you need to specifically set up firewall rules to open the FTP port on your instances.
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I am trying to download a full recursive directory from Google Cloud Platform using the trial edition of the platform. I assumed that the "Download File" option under the SSH dropdown settings would work, but it does not, providing only a "Failed" message on the window.
Upon trying to look up the answer, I found people mentioning downloading files from storage buckets and such - that is not what this is and to my knowledge I don't have access to those on a trial edition of GCP. I have a compute engine running and can SSH into it and I am looking to download a full recursive directory from it.
Thank you for any advice that you can offer me!
If you already have SSH access, you can use the scp command to copy files(assuming it is available on the system to which you want to copy the files).
scp -r username#server:/path/to/your/directory /local/destination
Another option is to use SFTP if scp is not available. Various clients are available for this for various operating systems.
Either of these options will transfer the files over SSH without any additional configuration required on the server(compute instance in your case).
I have windows server machine on GCE.Whenever I try to take remote or RDP into machine it is showing
The remote session was disconnected because there are no Remote Desktop License Servers available to provide a license.
Please contact the server administrator
I have reset the machine but didn't work. The solutions that I got on the net needs access to the machine first, but I am not able to access the machine. Here is a link http://www.dell.com/support/Article/us/en/04/635765/EN to troubleshoot this, but I am not able to access machine as the machine is on google server.
In my case license has been expired. But I was able to take remote in admin mode. Use the command in Run to take remote in admin mode
mstsc /admin
Then I added new license to continue remote service. For more detail on remote desktop licensing check out the link https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732684.aspx
According to this post the solution is to delete the following key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\RCM\GracePeriod
I Followed Sunil Garg's instructions:
mstsc /admin
to remote into the server.
Then I deleted the key. Please note you must run regedit as System user to delete the key. Use the RunAsSystem tool to achieve this
This problem made by some kind of caching of remote desktop licensing in clients you can solve this by remove the bellow key in registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSLicensing
It's much easier to make a reg file and run it so .
Make a empty text file
Name it "mypatch.reg" or "mypatch.reg"
Put bellow text in it and save it
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSLicensing]
Run it by dubble click on file!
It should remove the key.
I'm trying to publish ligthswitch on local network with from VisualStudio 2013,
I have installed IIS and launched web-deployment services. I Think I also installed all the possible features from web platform installer.
When I publish lightswitch app I get to this screen.
and I dont know how to get pass this service Url line. Whenever I type localhost or Computer name which is the server name, perhaps? I get an error
"Lightswitch must be run with administrative privileges to deploy to local host.
I fugured I could also just use import settings file. It could be alternative way.
but how do I create this xml file.
I've answered this for you before. You may have missed a step:
Open IIS
Locate "Default Web Site"
Right click and find Deploy -> Configure Web Deploy Publishing... (This step will create the XML file that you can use for Import Settings...
(If this menu option isn't available it means you haven't got the Management Service installed. And/or you haven't got the ALL of the Web Deploy 3.5 components installed.)
I created a LAMP stack instance on Google Compute Engine and followed the instructions for setting up FTP as described here.
Most of this worked, I can view files and ftp files to my local workstation FROM the instance. The problem is I can't ftp files TO the instance. Whenever I try to do so Filezilla gives me a permission denied error.
I tried right clicking on the "www" folder in Filezilla to set the permissions but that didn't work.
I'm guessing that write permissions have to be set by SSH-ing to the server and executing some sort of command but I'm not sure how to do that.
Any ideas as to how to go about doing this would be appreciated.
By default the /var/www directory is owned by 'www-data' on the debian instance. You should add your user to the 'www-data' group, and give the directory +rw (read and write) for groups.
i am planning to open a shared web hosting company. before opening i am configuring and checking that all things are up and running or not.
i had tried webmin, virtualmin and ajenti as web hosting manager on ubuntu server but i am not satisfied with them. is there any alternative to them which have secure administrator and client side control panel and easier to manager client account and hosts.
i am using apache2 as web server and mysql as database serve.
Thank You
Try ZPanel, it is cross-platform and has a great looking control panel. They also provide an installer which installs Apache, PHP, MySQL, and ZPanel, all pre-configured to run a shared hosting service.
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Getting shared hosting right isn't an easy thing to do especially if you want to allow your clients to use scripting languages like PHP. By default, PHP runs under the same userid regardless of which of customer the files belong to. So they will be able to see the files (including config files with database passwords) of the other customers.
There are ways around this problem, but most of them are either inconvenient for the customer or they bring other problems (like having to run the Apache as root).
Besides the shared hosting market is quite full with existing companies which have huge data centers and therefore can offer much more service at lower costs.
So my suggestion would be: Look at new services that you can provide. Docker Hosting or LXC Hosting isn't that common yet and you can better compete there.
If you really want to do simple shared hosting, and are in search of an admin tool: Try ISPCONFIG3