Posted by Fabian Vilers on 11/27/61 11:29

"Jan T" <jant@TAKETHISAWAYBEFOREYOUMAILtiscali.be> wrote in message
news:F8CdndLLNubEmNneRVnyhQ@scarlet.biz...
> hmm...
> the first command only resulted in a _completely_ empty folder on my
> website... unless I did something wrong?
> in WS FTP there's a little text box where you can type commands in (in
> between buttons with ChgDir, MkDir,...). Is this the place to be?
> Als long as the command was in the bos, the remote folder looked empty,
> when
> I removed the text box's content, it all came back.

IMHO, you can't execute a command from a FTP client...

> There is even a commandbutton "Exec", but this will only make the PHP file
> being downloaded and opened in DreamWeaver.


>
> BTW - what is a sheel? Is this something like WS_FTP?
> (told you I was not an expert!)

Sorry, it was a type, I mean a "shell". Do you have a telnet or ssh access
to the webserver?

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