[ale] symlinking /var/www/blosxom to /home/user/blosxom?

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

BruceG wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm messing with html stuff and blog goofiness. Right now I write on
> my PC, then gFTP it to my server in my home directory. Then I telnet
> to the server and move stuff to /var/www/blosxom directory. Not the
> snazziest solution.
> 
> I'm looking at options. The blog stuff is just text files, so I could
>  telnet or ssh to the server and use vi or emacs (the server is
> command line only, blog entries are simple text files). But I'm
> thinking of something a little nicer, like:
> 
> Create a symlink of /var/www/blosxom to /home/username/blosxom on my 
> server. Create a staging folder on my PC and build in there. Use ftp
> to move from my laptop to the home folder on my server. That means I
> wouldn't have to then telnet to the server and copy files from
> /home/username/blosxom to /var/www/blosxom.
> 
> How do you guys handle it?

I use expect to handle the transfer of static pages to my wife's website.

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