Can anyone give me any help, please. The so called "free" web hosting seem to have inappropriate advertising, this sometimes appears after you have set up your web pages. I would like some of my students to be able to publish their web pages on the net, but would like a simple way of uploading and editing their own work. I don't want to FTP in and I would like them to be able to do this from the class as well as home. Are there any scripts out there that could help me in setting this up. I could then run them from our own domain. Thanks Terry & Kay Cole Rotorua, New Zealand mailto:terry(a)cole.gen.nz mailto:kay(a)cole.gen.nz http://www.cole.gen.nz http://www.websnz.com
FTP is about as simple as it gets. A lot of programs such as dreamweaver etc support automatic FTP uploading/syncing from within their website manager facilities, and can be quite good. The only other thing I can think of off the top of my head are frontpage web extensions, but I'm not sure if they support uploading, and frontpage *cough* sucks like there's no tomorrow *cough* Unless of course you're wanting some kind of web form where the student selects there files and presses 'upload' on the page and it does it for them? (could then edit the page HTML in a textbox on another page or something) This could be quite good and it would be very simple to write some PHP or other scripts to do so. It's not, however, nearly as good or flexible as FTP. -----Original Message----- From: Terry Cole [mailto:terry(a)cole.gen.nz] Sent: Wednesday, 18 June 2003 5:11 p.m. To: Wlug; Linux-Users Cant Subject: [wlug] student web hosting Can anyone give me any help, please. The so called "free" web hosting seem to have inappropriate advertising, this sometimes appears after you have set up your web pages. I would like some of my students to be able to publish their web pages on the net, but would like a simple way of uploading and editing their own work. I don't want to FTP in and I would like them to be able to do this from the class as well as home. Are there any scripts out there that could help me in setting this up. I could then run them from our own domain. Thanks Terry & Kay Cole Rotorua, New Zealand mailto:terry(a)cole.gen.nz mailto:kay(a)cole.gen.nz http://www.cole.gen.nz http://www.websnz.com _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug
The so called "free" web hosting seem to have inappropriate advertising, this sometimes appears after you have set up your web pages.
Checked out Orcon? They seem to be very good. I dont think they push advertising to people. If they do, encourage your visitors to run a popup-blocking browser such as Mozilla or Opera.
I don't want to FTP in and I would like them to be able to do this from the class as well as home.
If you want to be able to do it "from anywhere" the most realiastic choices are SCP or FTP. SCP is more secure, but there aren't as many clients for this task (especially not for Windows). As Orion says in his post, FTP is simple and pain free. You can maintain a directory of your web site locally, which you just sync up with the remote end by drag and drop. There's a Free FTP client for windows called FileZilla which you might want to look at. Otherwise, assuming most of your students have Windows at home, IE has FTP built in, but it's not really suitable for the task. Craig
http://www.ssh.com/support/downloads/secureshellwks/non-commercial.html It's pretty sweet, cuteftp type interface for SCP's etc. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Box" <craig(a)dubculture.co.nz> To: "wlug" <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 6:22 PM Subject: Re: [wlug] student web hosting
The so called "free" web hosting seem to have inappropriate advertising, this sometimes appears after you have set up your web pages.
Checked out Orcon? They seem to be very good. I dont think they push advertising to people. If they do, encourage your visitors to run a popup-blocking browser such as Mozilla or Opera.
I don't want to FTP in and I would like them to be able to do this from the class as well as home.
If you want to be able to do it "from anywhere" the most realiastic choices are SCP or FTP. SCP is more secure, but there aren't as many clients for this task (especially not for Windows). As Orion says in his post, FTP is simple and pain free. You can maintain a directory of your web site locally, which you just sync up with the remote end by drag and drop.
There's a Free FTP client for windows called FileZilla which you might want to look at. Otherwise, assuming most of your students have Windows at home, IE has FTP built in, but it's not really suitable for the task.
Craig
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Terry Cole wrote:
Can anyone give me any help, please.
The so called "free" web hosting seem to have inappropriate advertising, this sometimes appears after you have set up your web pages.
I would like some of my students to be able to publish their web pages on the net, but would like a simple way of uploading and editing their own work.
I don't want to FTP in and I would like them to be able to do this from the class as well as home.
Are there any scripts out there that could help me in setting this up. I could then run them from our own domain.
Hi Terry, Have you heard of a program called weex? It is an automated ftp uploader, you make a local copy of the website and configure it in .weexrc then you run weex and it updates the remote site. It works well with the free webhost prohosting.com. They add banners to the top of every page but I've never seen a banner add other than their own, which is neither offensive nor that intrusive. Regards g -- Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> 07 8627077 http://www.componic.co.nz 025 2631932
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Terry Cole wrote:
The so called "free" web hosting seem to have inappropriate advertising, this sometimes appears after you have set up your web pages.
I would like some of my students to be able to publish their web pages on the net, but would like a simple way of uploading and editing their own work.
I don't want to FTP in and I would like them to be able to do this from the class as well as home.
Are there any scripts out there that could help me in setting this up. I could then run them from our own domain.
Sounds to me like a content management system. There are a bunch of them out there, some open source, and some (like Vignette's StoryServer) horrendously expensive proprietary numbers. This might be of some help: <http://www.la-grange.net/cms> Regards Richard -- Richard Stevenson If you can hear your neighbours firing small arms, they are using subsonic ammunition. -- Andrew Dalgliesh, in the Monastery
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