I need a cgi-bin but I can't find one when I am connected on Filezilla or cPanel, it's just public_html and that's it.
What do I do? I have looked online and it says that I need to use a command line but I have no clue how I would do that!
The "cgi-bin" directory does not exist until you create it with your FTP program at the top level of your Web site directory. From the perspective of your FTP program, it's just a normal directory (folder) that you can create, but it's treated differently by the server because of its special name.
Open your Filezilla program and connect to your website.
When you are in your top-level directory, (Where you see "public_html")
Right-click anywhere in the the window and select "create directory."
Simply name the directory "cgi-bin"
You're done!
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I'm running Linux Mint. My existing projects are located at the /var/www/* folders. But when I'm trying to create a new project then the PhpStorm's file browser is not showing me that folder at all. Like there is just no /var/www folder, but I know it is there and is having a full access permissions (0777).
In addition it shows for example a folder /var/data/JetBrains which is not actually available in my system (terminal: cd /var/data - no such file or directory).
So it seems like it is showing some kind of its own /var folder (virtualized?), not the one that is actually in my system. How can I solve this problem, how can I make it so it use my system's /var folder?
Solved. Do not install the PhpStorm from the Mint's software manager. It comes there in some kind of wrapper that isolates the filesystem.
Heres the scenario: In the root of the server i have an folder named "data".
In this folder is a file named "random-file.html". Now I want, that you can't see the contents of the folder "data" if you type "domain.com/data/" but you have access to the file "random-file.html" and can it.
Sure you can. You can hide it using .htaccess. I assume you use xampp server. You can see this [1] https://www.opentechguides.com/how-to/article/apache/115/htaccess-file-dir-security.html
If I recall correctly, the most secure practice is to keep sensitive files outside the root of your webserver all together. Create a folder on the VM or server which your app is hosted and have your application read/write/use it from there.
Most serverside frameworks/tools have a "websecrets" type functionality you could use. But this step above is my 'framework agnostic' advice.
Is it possible to automatically load index.html on a system folder without using XAMPP, IIS or similar?
It is for a school project and I can't use them, so I have to open the file putting the path (C:/...) into the address bar.
I know I could use .htaccess, but I don't know what to write and if it gets read without any web server solutions!
This can get a little tricky... but is possible without any "administrator" privileges, nor without installing anything.
Download Python 3.8.2 - Windows x86-64 embeddable zip file
Create a folder on "python" on the c:\
Extract the "Zip" file into this folder
Change the folder name from "python-3.8.2-embed-amd64" to "python_src"
Create a folder named "python_html"
The folder structure should look like:
c:\python\
c:\python\python_src\
c:\python\python_html\
Create a file named "webserver.py" in the "c:\python\python_html" folder
Place the following code into that file:
#webserver.py
import http.server
import socketserver
PORT = 80
Handler = http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
with socketserver.TCPServer(("", PORT), Handler) as httpd:
print("serving at port", PORT)
httpd.serve_forever()
Save and close the file
Create index.html file in the "python_html" folder and place the following code in that file:
<html>
<head>
<title>Web Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Python Web Server File</h1>
<p>Congratulations! The HTTP Server is working!</p>
</body>
</html>
Open the "Command Prompt" and type the following commands
cd\
cd python\python_html\
c:\python\python_src\python ./webserver.py
Open a web browser and navigate to "http://localhost/"
Once you have confirmed this works, you can build an entire website within that "python_html" folder. As long as you don't close the command prompt it will continue acting as a "Web Server".
I know I could use .htaccess
.htaccess is an Apache (Web Server) config file, so unless you have Apache installed (ie. the "A" in XAMPP) then you can't use that. (If .htaccess was available then index.html would likely load automatically anyway.)
On Apache, being able to load index.html by default when requesting a directory requires mod_dir (an Apache module). In this case, mod_dir issues an internal subrequest for the DirectoryIndex - this all requires additional processes.
I can't install extensions... I have to open the file on my school computer
If you can't install anything then you can't do this I'm afraid. You appear to be limited to direct file requests.
When using a webserver (such as Apache or IIS) then you have a differentiation between a URL and a filesystem path. The webserver maps the URL to a filesystem path. Without a webserver you don't have that abstraction.
There are lighter webservers, other than Apache and IIS, but you need to install something extra.
Just give your file(s) meaningful names (ie. not index.html) and use those instead? eg. fox-project.html
I've been following the Fortrabbit's guide to install phpMyAdmin.
I've managed to put the folder in my htdocs, but from what I read I must actually upload it into the app root below htdocs. Problem is the app root has write protection and I can't seem to change permissions via SFTP.
Any solutions?
Edit
Solved. I had my Root Path under settings set to htdocs/public, so I couldn't hit the phpMyAdmin folder. Setting the Root Path back to htdocs/ enabled me to access it like normal.
Where did you read it must go to the app root? I don't see that in the tutorial, but admit I may have missed it. Also, I'm not clear what you mean by "app root".
Note that in this case, there are three different 'root' folders, be careful not to get confused.
The file system root, /. All the files on your server live here. Depending how fortrabbit configures their system, you may not even have access to this.
The web folder root. Files in this folder and below are available online through your webserver.
The SFTP root. This also depends on how fortrabbit configures their server, it could be your web root, the file system root, or your home directory. You may be able to change to other folders, or maybe not.
Normally, htdocs is the root or base folder where your webserver is looking for files to serve. It isn't clear from my browsing the fortrabbit site if they do anything odd with their configuration, so this is a close approximation for what most servers look like. For the sake of illustration, we'll pretend that htdocs is in /var but it can be anywhere on disk.
So the file system might look a bit like:
/
/bin/
/etc/
/home/MichaelHanslo/
/home/MichaelHanslo/budget_presentation.odf
/var/
/var/htdocs/
/var/htdocs/index.html
/var/htdocs/pma/
/var/htdocs/calendar/
/var/htdocs/calendar/modify.php
/var/logs/
So in that scenario, going to http://example.com/ loads the file /var/htdocs/index.html, going to http://example.com/calendar/modify.php loads /var/htdocs/calendar/modify.php. So in most cases, you want to create a folder under htdocs for phpMyAdmin; you can call it anything you want (in my example above, I used 'pma'). Anyway, if you don't have permission to create the folder under your web root, then you should definitely ask your host for help, because something isn't right.
Hope that helps clear it up for you.
I am creating a script on the fly to ftp some files from a remote computer. I create a file which is then called from the command line with
ftp -s:filename proxy
where filename is the file I just created. The file has code similar to the following:
anonymous#ip address
username
prompt off
binary
cd c:\destination directory
mget c:\source directory\*.*
quit
That doesn't work. Neither does the following:
anonymous#ip address
username
prompt off
binary
cd c:\source directory
mput c:\destination directory
quit
Obviously, I'm not so good at ftp. How, in what order, where in my file do I specify the place where I want the files to be put (destination directory, and also from where the ftp process is running), and where I want the files to come from (ip address computer which has files I want). Do I need to set the directory before starting the ftp process?
I'm running this in an SSIS package, and I'm not using the SSIS ftp task, because I don't want a failure if no files are found. If there's nothing there, that's cool. If there is something there, I want a copy.
(It was working in my development area, and now, when I'm trying to get files from a server that I truely have no access to except ftp, I'm not getting anything. See How to avoid SSIS FTP task from failing when there are no files to download? for an earlier, related question.)
Update:
Both of the answers below, listing lcd and cd, are correct. However, my example still failed, until I replaced the backslashes with forward slashes. In other words, my final, working result is as follows:
anonymous#ip address
username
prompt off
binary
lcd /destination directory
cd /source directory
mget *.*
quit
Are you looking for LCD and CD where LCD changes directory on the local machine? EG:
LCD c:\destination directory
mget c:\source directory\*.*
In most ftp clients you can set the working directory on the server with the command cd, and you set the working directory on the client with the command lcd.
But it is not clear to me what you are trying to do.
Are you trying to move or copy files that are on the ftp server to another location on the ftp server? As far as I know you cannot do that with ftp. If you wished to copy files from one folder on the ftp server to another, then I believe you would get a copy to the local system, and then reupload them to a new folder. If you wish to move files you can use the rename command.