Posted by Chaddy2222 on 01/04/06 04:17

f.baffetti@gmail.com wrote:

> Hi all, I am an NVU newbie, but I feel it can offer great performance
> and useful services: I just need a help on the following:
>
> - my website is configured on a Linux box and the root of the FTP site
> contains some symbolic links to the main tree subfolders with HTML and
> CGI "physical" folders (i.e. html links to /var/www/html, etc...)
>
> - when I set the site in the FTP site manager I understand that I can
> only access via HTTP ("HTTP address of your homepage...") so that I
> cannot access to the files via FTP
>
> - as per the above, when I correctly access the site in the FTP site
> manager I can see the "files", but the symlinks appears as files... so
> that I can open them, but as HTML pages containing the html code with
> the subtree of the files
>
> This is useless to me, because I cannot access the whole tree of the
> site via FTP, and I cannot edit it via HTTP!
Try a full FTP Client. Such CoreFTP. download it from:
http://www.coreftp.com
You should be able to both view and edit your files with that program.
I use it all the time to upload and download my websites.

>
> Am I wrong? Is there a workaround for this behaviour?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
> Federico
The NVU site manager is a bit buggy as far as I can tell.
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Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc

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