ubuntu html editor

[sr71000]

Hey guys. I want to make the move to linux but I'm having trouble finding a good graphical html/css/php editor with ftp support. I can't use the ones that depend on ubuntu because the ftp server here at work does not support passive connections. :-/ Anyone know of a good program with ftp support I can try? I suck with linux installs so either a wonderful install guide or easy install would be nice!

[CujoRbd]

get dreamweaver for windows and install under WINE


oh, and why does it have to support FTP? there are some good, small WYSIWYG html editors out there that don't support ftping directly in the program... you could just get a separate utiltiy for this aspect

[sr71000]

I work on a large site and i really don't feel like ftping files back and forth to edit them. eww. Also the servers at work don't accept passive connections and linux will only let you mount passive ftp connections...i'm not sure why . Anyways...do you really like dreamweaver? for a wysiwyg editor it's ok but i do mostly php work with a little html in there so I'd rather stick just with the code!

I didn't think of wine though...i might have to see if I can get the program I'm using now to run under wine!

[mikeL]

have you checked out Nvu, http://nvudev.com/index.php

[vass0922]

you could always set up a shell script that you can just run to publish the files up.

We have scheduled tasks at work that copy from staging to production using robocopy scripts to do this very thing.
Allows the user to publish their stuff to staging when they're ready, and we can pull from staging to push to production and the developer has no rights to the production servers.

I've heard Nvu is good for linux, but have little experience.

[GameManK]

Give quanta+ a try. You should be able to transparently open and edit things on ftp:/
I use it with ssh (fish:/ or sftp:/) so I don't know if/how well it works with ftp or what a "passive" connection is though.

[samwichse]

Linux should be able to mount an active FTP without problems. Networking is what linux does.

Just pass the active flag when doing an ftpmount.
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com...5-5031896.html

The parameters: [defaults]
* user: The user to be used for logging on the FTP server. [anonymous]
* password: The password for that user. [user@ftpfs.sourceforge.net]
* hostname: The FTP server.
* port: The port the server is listening on. [21]
* root_dir: The directory on the FTP server you want to be mounted. This should be specified without the trailing slash (that is "/home/duru", not "/home/duru/"). [/]
* mount_point: The local directory you want to mount the FTP server onto.
* own: Flag to force ownership on all remote files. Useful for FTP servers that list user IDs instead of user names.
* uid: The local user ID you want to be the owner of the mounted tree.
* gid: The local group ID you want to own the mounted tree.
* fmask: The numeric mode to be ORed on all mounted files.
* dmask: The numeric mode to be ORed on all mounted dirs.
* active: Flag to enable active mode for FTP transfers. Useful if you're behind some firewall and cannot connect to random ports.

[sr71000]

samwichse. if that works i will drive to your house and hug you. let you know how it works when i get to try it!

[KarmaKiller]

So did it work??

Kind of curious about this myself...