On 9/20/05, Dave Gutteridge <dave at tokyocomedy.com> wrote: > > Thank you everyone for the helpful advice. Looking at the suggestions, > makes me think I might have to re-approach how I do web site management. > > Up until now I have used mainly Adobe's GoLive, and occasionally > Dreamweaver. Far from being wonderful solutions to HTML coding, they > often come with bloated proprietary code and weird results with parsing > elements. Nvu, while disappointing in this regard, is hardly alone. > > I was kind of looking for something a little WYSIWYG, but I'm thinking > maybe that's not necessary anymore. I do so much with PHP these days > that I'm hand coding everything anyway. > > So then I thought that one of the real advantages to a program like > GoLive are two things, not to do with previews of GUIs. the two most > significant features are templates, and smart FTP uploads. > > Templates I can probably migrate away from, as that too I am > accomplishing more and more with PHP. But the smart FTP upload is nice. > > My web server uses Fedora to store all my web documents in a directory > structure very much like what I have at home. Maybe even exactly, since > both home and host use Red Hat inspired builds. > > What I'm wondering now is if what I should do is mirror the directory > structure I have on my host here at home. Then I can do all my editing, > and serve and test everything at home pretty much exactly as it will be > served from the host. And then when I'm happy with my updates, to upload > it to my server. > > But, even though I have a fast fiber optic connection, I still don't > think I would want to just straight up mirror the two directories. I > have images and movie files and whatnot that still eat up connection > time. > > Which is my long winded way of coming around to asking - what would be > the best approach to uploading data from my machine in this > circumstance? Is there an FTP utility that, like GoLive, will track > which documents have been modified since last upload and send only > those? rsync or unison for mirroring. Maybe subversion or CVS? Disclaimer: I'm not a programer -- Leonard Isham, CISSP Ostendo non ostento.