I have a website on my Windows 98 home computer. I'm running Apache
webserver. I don't really make this site available to the public. I have
a few co-webmasters who access my machine in order to keep the site
updated.
The public site is on a Linux server with a web hosting company
(community server).
I wanted to set up automated mirroring, so that any changes made to the
web pages on my Win98 machine, in a certain directory, get transferred
to the public website.
After searching and discussion, it seemed that rsync was the best tool,
and that I needed to install ssh in order to use it. This is what's
giving me such a problem right now: finding and installing a copy of SSH
on my Win98 machine that will do the job.
[I've already been to the SSH FAQ at employee.org and I've visited many
web pages on ssh...]
I had installed SSH2 on an educational (free) license, only to find out
that my webhost is running SSH1 (with no immediate plans to change). Too
bad. SSH2 was so easy to install.
I tried umass.edu's FiSSH. It will not run. I click on it, it starts to
run, and immediately crashes. Yesterday, I finally got the impression
that I had to use one of the versions that requires CygWin to be
installed (need Linux-like look, for using automated, non-interactive
ssh client in order to run rsync?). So, I did, finally install CygWin
yesterday (see http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ )
I'm not sure that I have it completely configured correctly, but I did
have the bash shell running last night, and played around with it for a
while.
I downloaded an SSH client from here:
http://www.lexa.ru:8101/sos/
Basically, the 1.2.26 precompiled binary. Inside my CygWin/bash shell I
managed to get the file unzipped, untarred and in the correct
directories. At this point, I don't know what to do next.
Reading old posts in this group this morning, I found mention of PuTTY.
I downloaded it and PSCP and they work great. But they are interactive,
are they not? I'm afraid I won't be able to use these with rsync. If I
can, please correct me, because it sure seems easier than what I was
trying to do last night.
Sheila King
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http://www.thinkspot.net/sheila/
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