Comments on: FTP Upstream

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 15:04:04 +0000

Donovan, that's too bad. I hate all the wierd restrictions you get with different hosting companies.

Have you looked at stunnel? Basically, you should be able to run an stunnel daemon on your local machine that will enable you "fake" using sftp. I think you should check it out.

By: donovan

donovan — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:40:46 +0000

i figured sftp was unlikely. that's too bad since i just switched hosts and they don't allow ftp. only sftp. guess i'll have to put my outlines somewhere else and yank this script for now.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:03:23 +0000

Tim, you don't run the script manually. The script gets run by the OPML Editor whenever it upstreams a changed file to the community server.

Take a look at the log outline: open the Community menu and select "Open Log Outline."

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:01:22 +0000

Donovan,

SFTP? Not likely. I didn't write the FTP functionality here, it's whatever is available from the Frontier kernel in the OPML Editor. Sorry.

And thanks for jumping in to try to help Tim.

By: donovan

donovan — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:27:36 +0000

I'm sure Dan will have more to say, but Tim, you won't get what you are after with this script. I too wanted to have OPML Editor upstream _and render_ my opml weblog entries to my own ftp server like you can with Radio UserLand. However, Dan's script doesn't render pages like Radio UserLand does. It only send the unaltered OPML files up to your ftp server. From there, you can use something like Dan's outline renderer plugin (sort of the equivalent of activerenderer) for wordpress to render your opml outlines into web pages.

By: donovan

donovan — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:23:59 +0000

sftp in the future?

By: Tim Watt

Tim Watt — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:15:30 +0000

I tried as above but it simply upstreams to the suppport.opml.org server.

Might this error message when I run your script be a clue?

This script has no statements in its body.
To run â€œftpUpstreamâ€, add a statement belwo the script that calls it with the appropriate paramater list.

Tim

By: Tim Watt

Tim Watt — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:34:16 +0000

Thanks Dan... Sorry was annoyed - which put me off my spelling - but indeed no prompt came up. I attempted to manually change the table - but with the absence of clear instructions put these in the wrong place. I'll have another go (thanks for the screen shot) but I suspect I've mucked things up too much so will probably need to reinstall a clean version of OPML Editor. All I'm trying to do is upstream to another server as you can do with with Radiouserland so I don't know why it's made so difficult, especially as Dave Winer has mentioned he won't continue his own server for longer than he needs to.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:04:44 +0000

Tim, It's hard to tell from your description what may be going wrong. I've added a screen capture of my settings so you can see what they're supposed to look like, but the prompts (which are only activated on the first run through) should have worked for you. From your second comment, however, it sounds like you need to connect to the Internet via a proxy. If that's the case, I don't know if this script will work. The script uses the ftp functionality builtin to the OPML Editor, and after a quick look at that code I don't see any ability connect via proxy. This script has nothing to do with your OPML community or the "Change Community" setting.

By: Tim Watt

Tim Watt — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:57:46 +0000

... specifically.

There is no prompt system for FTP system...????

Do I need t ochange the proxy setting??

What about "Change Community'???

Tim